Edna StaeblerCM (January 15, 1906 – September 12, 2006) was a Canadian writer and literary journalist,[2] best known for her series of cookbooks, particularly Food That Really Schmecks.[3][4] While the book contains Mennonite recipes, the content also includes stories and anecdotes about life and home cooking in the rural areas of the Waterloo Region.
Food That Really Schmecks cookbook series, Namesake for the Edna Staebler Award
Lifeedit
Edna Staebler was born in Berlin, Ontario (renamed Kitchener during World War I) in 1906 and grew up there.
Edna's birth certificate shows her name was originally registered as Cora Margaret Cress and later changed, (by annotation on birth certificate referencing a 1910 letter),[5] to Edna Louisa Cress. She was the daughter of machinist, John Gerp Cress (7 April 1875 – 23 October 1932) and Louise Cress (née Sattler) (24 January 1881 – 8 March 1972) who were married 15 July 1903.
A biography, To Experience Wonder, Edna Staebler: A Life (2003), was written by Veronica Ross; a collection of her diaries, Must Write, edited by Christl Verduyn, was published in 2005.[6]
Other books by Edna Staebleredit
In addition to Food that Really Schmecks, Stabler is also the author (or editor) of the following:[6]
Sauerkraut and Enterprise. University Women's Club of Kitchener-Waterloo, 1967; Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969.
^ abFaculty of Arts, August 28, 2012, About the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Wilfrid Laurier University, Headlines, Retrieved 11/26/2012
^"Food That Really Schmecks". WLU Press. WLU. 2016. Archived from the original on August 28, 2016. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
^McNeill, Laurie, Diaries that Schmeck Archived 2015-03-15 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian litterateur, Retrieved 11/26/2012