Mountain Flavors Day Five – It’s all about the Bread
This is the last day of my Mountain Flavors class and I’m sad to see it end. I’ve made new…
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Mountain Flavors Day Four – Field Trips and Gardening
I’m really excited about today’s class. We’re going on a field trip to see Tim Stalcup’s garden. Tim lives just…
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Mountain Flavors Day Three – Let Them Eat Cake!
In today’s Mountain Flavors class—We will eat cake! I think of today’s portion of the class as the day for…
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Mountain Flavors Day Two – Pickles
Pickling with vinegar and fermenting are methods used to preserve the bounty of the garden. We’re all familiar with cucumber…
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Mountain Flavors Day One – Jelly and Jam
Sugar is used to preserve fruits and vegetables in the form of jelly or jams. Common ones come to mind…
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Who at My Door is Standing?
For the last several month’s Paul and Chitter have been doing the old song “Who at my Door is Standing?”…
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Riddle 13
I’m sharing a riddle from Blind Pig Reader Ann Applegarth. Railroad crossing! Look out for the cars! Now can you…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 125
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases….
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Will Clock Folklore Disappear?
The other day Granny, Paul and I were talking about a clock she used to have that a man down…
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Appalachian Words about Cooking
I’ll be teaching my Mountain Flavors class next week at the Folk School. I’m super excited! I love teaching others…
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The William Jasper Houston Family Line
Today’s guest post was written by Joe Mode. —- Adam Fox (Peter) was born in Pennsylvania on 11 March 1776…
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Eating Spinach
Do you like spinach? I was too picky to even try it when I was a kid, but once I…
