I spent yesterday morning learning how to identify and find chanterelle mushrooms. A friend invited me to go with her and her girls last year but it never worked out. When she invited me again last week I decided to make it a priority to tag along and learn. Several years ago I helped a friend at the Folk School find them on one of the trails there, but I didn’t really pay attention or learn what to look for—she…
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Appalachian Food
We ate the first fresh corn of the year last night for supper. It was so good! It didn’t come…
About this time last year I shared a question with you that I received from a reader who wanted to…
“Summer supper at Mom-Mom’s kitchen table. A big bowl of fried whole potatoes. Little new potatoes, the skin scraped off with…
I’m foolish about fried fish. Pap and Granny loved it when I was growing up and I reckon I inherited…
The blackberries are getting ripe around my house. Over the weekend I picked about three quarters of a gallon from…
I’ll be teaching my Mountain Flavors class at John C. Campbell Folk School this week. You know I have to…
“The inexorable turn of the earth toward summer and fall brought busy days in the fields as days got longer…
“When I was very small, back in the 1930’s, my daddy used to feed me what he called simply “butterbread…
Is there anything better than a green onion straight out of the garden? This time of the year green onions…