Cooking with Fat Back
Laurel Branch Salt pork plays a fat part in mountain cookery. Many of the old-time recipes call for it. Some…
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Don’t Laugh and a Funny Story about the Song
My car has a usb port and more often than not I listen to music through it. I’ve pulled the…
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Riddle 21
I’m sharing another riddle from “Way Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek Appalachian Riddles & Rusties” by James Still. “It’ll bite…
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Calendar Folklore
Granny’s got so stooped over she can no longer reach up to do a lot of things. As I flipped…
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Cross Questions and Crooked Answers
cross questions and crooked answers noun phrase A guessing game played in some Smokies homes in the 1930s and observed…
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Hoodoo’d Potatoes
A few weeks ago I received the follow question on the Blind Pig and The Acorn’s Facebook page. “Hi! My…
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People Who Once Lived Here
The acreage above our house is full of old homeplaces. There were a few that were still inhabited when Pap…
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How I Make Biscuits
After my post about The Deer Hunter making biscuits on the wood stove I received several questions about our biscuit…
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February: The Month for Mollygrubs
The Free Dictionary has this entry for mullygrubs: Rur. to feel depressed. She had the mullygrubs because her husband was out…
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Squirrel Hunting and Johnny Cash
“When me and Harold would get in from school, we couldn’t wait to get our school clothes changed and head…
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Valentine’s Day Memories
Sherry: Well, I was almost my Mom’s Valentine…I was born on the 12th so she was still in Oak Ridge…
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Sugar Kisses
“According to the Dictionary of American English, “sugar” is widespread in the South. They define it as “affection demonstrated through…
