Cook with neighbors from around the world as you prepare flavorful dishes and feel the warmth of their kitchens. This revised edition of Extending the Table simmers together the best-loved recipes from the first edition with the enticing flavors of new recipes. Extending the Table contains stories, proverbs, and recipes from more than ninety countries.

Featuring photographs that tell the story of cooking and cultures.

The recipes in this book tell stories of ingredients, landscapes, cultures and communities; remind us of people who prepare and share food in the midst of scarcity; and nourish households with everyday fare and festive cuisine from many cultures.

Cook your way around the globe. Learn from the world community. Extend your table.

Joetta Handrich Schlabach worked in various writing, educational and administrative capacities with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) from 1982-87 and 1989-91, including assignments, with her husband Gerald, in Nicaragua and Honduras. She received a BA in home economics from Goshen (Ind.) College, an MA in family economics and management from Michigan State University, and an MA in theology from St. Catherine University in St Paul, Minn. After 15 years of programmatic work in international and multicultural education at three universities, she became a pastor in 2007, serving at Faith Mennonite Church, Minneapolis. She and her husband reside in St. Paul, Minn., and are parents of two adult sons and a daughter-in-law. They enjoy the vibrancy of a multicultural city neighborhood where neighbors extend the table by sharing garden produce across back-yard fences.