Oct. 1, 2002 (23 years ago), I wrote my first column. I thought it would be interesting to repeat it for all the new and old readers.

My mother penned the Amish Cook column for 11 years. I was a teenager at home when she started writing. After her sudden death on Sept. 17, 2002, I started writing.

In 2014, the name was changed to Lovina’s Amish Kitchen. I want to thank everyone who has encouraged me to keep writing. It’s not always easy to find time. It was even more of a challenge when my children were young. Looking at the ages they all were when I wrote the first column, it’s hard to believe this much time has gone by.

At the time, we had six children, ages 2 months to 8 years old. I was 31, and now our oldest is that age. I write all my columns in one-subject notebooks and have used

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