“Aunt Mo. Norton: We always dressed up for Christmas dinner in the new clothes that we got. Our whole family would get together and eat lunch. Sometimes we’d invite other families from the community to come eat with us. I first started helping my mother cook the Christmas meal when I was about eight or nine years old. The men didn’t usually help cook. They would sit on the porch, or sit in the living room when it was too…
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Appalachian Food
“Along with pork, our most commonly served meat was poultry. Mother raised chickens, and we had eggs and chicken to…
“The early settlers in the Great Smokies were, of necessity, a self-sufficient folk. Isolated as they were, they had to…
It’s funny how certain foods take us right back to childhood. The dishes are usually high on our list of…
Our okra crop has been terrific again this summer. I can barely keep it harvested before more pods are ready…
Several weeks back a reader asked if I could share my apple butter recipe. The recipe I use came from…
Over the weekend I made a batch of almond butter cookies. I found the recipe in “The Folk School Cookbook.”…
This has been a bumper year for our blueberry bushes. We’ve made pies, muffins, and cakes, but mostly we’ve eaten…
I recently received an interesting question about beans. —- Hi, Tipper. My great grandparents and kin moved to Spokane WA…
A few weeks back when I posted about Granny gifting The Deer Hunter a jar of Christmas Kraut someone asked…