To Africa with Spatula: A Peace Corps Mom in Malawi, 1965-1967

Take one ordinary 1960s American family — husband, wife, and four active boys from three to twelve. Add a Peace Corps staff assignment to Malawi, Africa and more than ninety letters home. Stir well, edit liberally, and you get To Africa With Spatula. This is the story of our family's two-and-a-half years of adventures (and mis- adventures), and especially of our growing and enduring love for this tiny beautiful African country and its people. The book title, To Africa With Spatula, was inspired by our favorite family activity, Sunday morning pancake open houses which we held to give the Peace Corps Volunteers a little touch of home. Africa and the whole Peace Corps experience got into our blood and forever changed the lives of our entire family.

Jane Baker Lotter