Sam Brungardt
In Schmeckfest,
Sam Brungardt , a native of Ellis County, Kansas now living in St.
Paul, Minnesota, shared the wit and wisdom of a practiced baker as
he turned out perfect loaves of Pfeffernuesse
Brot.
Sam's ancestors come from
the Volga region of Russia and Sam has done much research into Volga
German and other ethnic German-Russian recipes and cooking traditions.
Sam is the editor of Sei Unser Gast: Be Our Guest, the cookbook of
the North Star Chapter, American Historical Society of Germans from
Russia.