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For more than thirty years, Kevin Williams — editor of The Amish Cook syndicated column — has been chasing the Amish, and himself. What began as a teenager driving through Indiana farmland looking for an Amish woman willing to write a newspaper column became a lifelong obsession that took him from one-room schoolhouses in Adams County to the last Shaker community in Maine, from the Swiss Amish yodelers of Berne, Indiana to the Old Order Mennonites of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
Along the way he built and lost an Amish pie empire, nearly starred in a reality television show, and spent decades searching for something he couldn't quite name.
Not So Simple is unlike any book written about Plain culture. It doesn't romanticize the Amish. It simply follows one man's lifelong attempt to understand them — and what that attempt reveals about the rest of us.