How food offers a rare window into Tennessee’s Amish Country

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How food offers a rare window into Tennessee’s Amish Country

The fertile backcountry of rural Tennessee offers a vital lifeline to the Amish, a deeply traditional community living apart from the modern world. join a Tour for a taste of life in this unique corner of the American South.

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK).

The Amish are fond of a sweet treat, Fannie Yoder tells me as we wander the aisles of her delicatessen in Tennessee’s Amish Country. She’s not kidding. Around us, shelves groan beneath glossy slabs of fudge. There are towers of cinnamon rolls, swirled high with thick peaks of icing. Stacks of sugared doughnuts and fried pies stretch to the far wall, oozing jam. “It has to be homemade, using good ingredients,” the 73-year-old is quic