The cookbook Jim Casada and I wrote, Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food – Recipes & Stories from Mountain Kitchens continues to sell well. The book was recently recognized by the North Carolina Society of Historians with an Award of Excellence.
Jim and I have been pleased with the awards and sales, but we’ve been most pleased by how well people who’ve purchased it have enjoyed it. Many folks say it took them straight back to their parents’ or grandparents’ kitchen table.
The following is a small portion of the introduction.
“The subject areas and recipes in the pages that follow represent a cross-section of what we have eaten and prepared all our respective lives. They also typify traditional Appalachian dishes and focus on foods, whether from the garden or nature’s larder, that have formed the essence of regional diet over many generations. You will find numerous recipes covering foods lying at the heart of Appalachian foodways, the “corn and taters,” as well as “maters and other garden truck,” found on mountain tables throughout the year. Corn, a key crop not only for humans but for barnyard beasts and fowl, is given prominent attention at the outset, while a panoply of recipes for desserts in the form of cakes, pies, cookies, jellies, and more pay ample recognition to the prominence sweets has always played in regional diet. Altogether, close to 300 recipes celebrate the enduring and endearing heritage that is cooking in Appalachia.”
On November 15, 2025 from 11:00 am till 2:00 pm I will be at the Little Light Christian Books and Gifts store in Granite Falls, NC (3 N Main Street) signing cookbooks. The bookstore will have the books available for purchase. You can also buy the cookbook here.
No matter how careful the shippers and packers are there are always a couple of books that arrive with bent covers or some other minor flaw when I receive a new shipment. And then there’s the ones I mess up by writing the wrong name or making some other typo as I inscribe them for someone who has purchased a book.
Today’s Thankful November giveaway is a slightly damaged but new copy of Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food written by Jim Casada and Tipper Pressley. To be entered in the giveaway leave a comment on this post. Giveaway ends November 7, 2025. There will be three winners for this giveaway.
Last night’s video: Digging Our Taters Before The First Frost.
Tipper
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I would love to win a copy of your cookbook! I enjoy yours and the girls’ channels so much.
I’d love to try the recipes in your book and read the stories that go with them.
Oh my goodness gracious to own a copy of this cookbook would be just heavenly!
i-heart-your-blog – every post is like opening a present. thank you for the chance to win a copy of your book.
and applause to all the other readers and listeners who help make it a homey place to visit.
safe travels and best wishes for your book signing and other events, tipper.
—suz in ohio, northern appalachia,
at the OH-PA-WVA intersection
Hey Tipper, Matt and family…
Sure would love to be able to come up there to that book signing but I live in Louisiana and no longer able to drive but I’ll be with y’all in spirit. Hopefully the signing turns out well and the weather will cooperate for y’all.
Congratulations on the continued success of the book!!!
I have your and Jim’s wonderful book. I have enjoyed it so much!
I’m sure the cookbook is useful but also enjoyable reading–just like Blind Pig is for me.
Congratulations on the awards and sales of your cookbook. Very happy for you and Jim.
Thank you for being real and genuine. That is a rare quality in today’s world. Being true and faithful are other rare characteristics in today’s world.
My yesterday’s comments would be more likely for me to win a cookbook as you are a modest and humble person. But my gift is encouragement and I want to be found using it whenever I get the chance
I gave my sisters, (the real cooks in my family). I wish I had bought one for myself! If I don’t win, it will be on my Christmas list!
I bought a digital copy of your cookbook when it first came out. I would love a hard copy which would be a lot easier to use!! Thanks for your wonderful content. I have been around for awhile!!
Hey Tipper!
I can’t wait to meet you on the 15th to get my book signed! My wife got a copy for me last Christmas, so please don’t include me in the giveaway.
I know from watching you and the girls on YouTube that y’all enjoy thrift shopping. If you have time before or after your signing, Granite Falls has a great Christian thrift store about 1/2 mile from the Little Light Christian Books and Gifts. It called Redeemers Lighthouse Thrift at 100 S. Main Street.
Check it out if you have time, you won’t be disappointed.
I have your cookbook and recently made the zucchini pie. It was yummy! I’d be happy for another cookbook to give away.
I would absolutely love one of your cookbook this sight brings so many of memories of my grandmother and mama thankyou so much
I’m a scratch ‘n’ dent girl from way back. I’d be proud to have a “misfit” copy of your cookbook in my kitchen for my 67th birthday. Your little tale of mishaps made me think of the Christmas TV special from my childhood…”Rudolph’s Island of Misfit Toys.” Good night over on your side of the mountain in Wilson Hollow. I keep y’all in my prayers. I love ya.
I enjoy the blog, Tipper and family! I hope I win a book! Blessings for all!
You have such a giving spirit and a loving heart. I would treasure this book for sure!
Your candyroaster cookies remain one of my favorite recipes. I didn’t grow any candyroasters this year, but still have some in the freezer. I’m sure this cookbook has many recipes that would become my favorites.
I always enjoy the Thankful November giveaways. Would love to get a copy of the cookbook.
Always enjoy the recipes, simple down home cooking.
Dear Tipper, I actually have a cookbook I’d like to send you. How do I go about sending you something? Thanks!
Barbara, you can send it to me at PO Box 83 Brasstown, NC 28902. Thank you!!
I was just thinking about getting a copy for the book for my daughter for a Christmas present. It would be fun to have one with even more ‘personality!’ I love reading about the old ways and remembering bits and pieces of a long ago time.
Since my wife bought the book she has made my life a little more “Appalachian” by making your famous two ingredient biscuits and corn bread almost every day. She even made scones. from your recipe. Good book. Have a blessed.day.
Great blog today. We both love, use, and refer to the cookbook regularly.
I think if someone were able to travel over all the world and eat from every table represented none of them would taste as good as the good old grub we offer here in the Appalachian mountains. 🙂
I enjoyed the Thankful November video. It’s always fun to watch you and Matt work together in the garden or just any day to day chores and ending with popcicles.
The food y’all make always makes me hungry.
Happy November. Praying for you and your family !
i watch you on you tube and read here…id like to win a copy of this book…
I have a signed copy of your book from your signing at Alexander’s in Blairsville. Somehow it’s been misplaced during our move! I’m still searching for it.
I wonder if there is a recipe for Apple Stack Cake? I’m a transplant to Appalachia and that’s on my bucket list to try.
Kathleen, here is the recipe I use: https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/apple-stack-cake-2/
Hi, Tipper: my mom-in-law, Diane, is a huge fan of yours. She is SO looking forward to meeting you on the 15th at your book signing at Little Light in Granite Falls. I’d love for her to win a copy of your cookbook!
The words “garden truck” caught my attention. When I was a kid people talked about having a truck garden or truck farm. Because most of them hauled produce to towns around to sell I wonder if that was what the term meant. Back then you could sell not only fresh produce, but also canned meats and vegetables along with homemade jams and jellies. Now those have to be processed under a license with periodic health department inspections. We still give jams and jellies to friends and neighbors when we make a run. We have never heard of anyone getting sick from them. Some may have gotten fatter though.
Tipper, I enjoy reading your blog and watching you and your family on YouTube. Your delicious meals remind me of those my mother prepared when I was growing up in the foothills of NC. I would love to win a copy of your cookbook. As always, prayers for your family, especially for sweet Granny.
Tipper, I live in Montana and am surprised by some of the similarities between the folks and customs of Montana and Appalachia. I came across your channel accidentally but have learned so much about the people and customs of Appalachia, and you are the one who taught me how to pronounce “Appalachia” correctly. I would love to receive a copy of your cookbook. I am not a natural cook, but I love to bake, and I would love to become a better cook.
Thank you for your writings about Appalachia. when I was a young teen my Grandparents took me and a cousin on a road trip back East all the way to the Carolinas. I loved it! I was born and raised in the flat riverbottoms around Little Rock, Arkansas. But the mountains are a part of my soul.
God bless you and your family for letting me share your time in Appalachia.
Joan
I always look forward to your thankful November blog. It’s a month of lovely reading thank you Tipper.
I know winning is a game of chance and I’ve never been good at winning in games or contest, but I would love a copy of your cookbook. I enjoy your and the girls channels and of course TBP&A blog. My family was mostly from GA and I grew up eating and hearing words that you often cook and use.
I pray Granny is feeling some better and that the rest of your beautiful family is doing well. May God bless you sll
Love your videos and blog! Would love the cookbook.
I so enjoy your cooking videos and anything you do in the garden. Takes me back to the gardens we had when I was a child that all of us swore the rows had no end. Lol
I have the cookbook and would like to gift one to our niece. She would love it. Some of the best recipes I’ve ever tried have come out of this wonderful cookbook.
We eat the same here in Tennessee and Oklahoma. Would love your book!
Tipper, I want to be clear about this and my first comment, do not consider me for the cookbook, without my wife, it would not be of much use to me. Give it to someone that could use it more. I mentioned eating what we grew, it was beans, taters, corn, chicken, pork, rabbits and squirrels but only squirrel dumplings and a few other vegetables, jelly and jam from a lot of different fruits. Mother would boil squirrel and make dumplings from the broth. She said squirrel looked too much like a field rat to fry and eat it! I was too happy with the dumplings to argue with her. We grew a lot of corn for animal feed but by time I came along we were buying cornmeal and grits from the grocery store. We grew Bantam sweet corn for the table.
I bought your cookbook sometime back, and have really enjoyed it. I’m so proud of you for all that you have accomplished. Can you tell me how that little baby named Silas is doing? I include that little fella in my prayers at night.
Cheryl, he seems to have stabilized and is doing much better! Thank you for praying 🙂
Tipper,
I am a fan of your blog and especially enjoy hearing Appalachian dialect. So many words and phrases take me back to my grandparents’ farm in Northwest Georgia where just north of Atlanta, they lived a very Appalachian lifestyle. I enjoyed vittles of cabbage, green beans, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, pork, beef and chicken, blackberry cobbler, watermelon (my favorite) and lots of corn, all grown on the farm. Thank you for keeping Appalachian customs and traditions alive.
I would love to give this book to a special niece of mine. I have used and enjoyed many of your recipes. I am taking the green tomato pickles to the shop for all the men to enjoy alone with Soup Beans, Mexican Cornbread, slaw, pies and tea for a Thanksgiving meal. I hope today is a great day of health for Granny. God bless.
I am going to try to come to the book signing in Granite Falls. Cross your fingers that I make it this time. I’ve tried twice before but something always came up.
Spotted a lone deer in the back yard this morning at 9:00 o’clock. I guess it got confused with all this time change and stuff.
Ed, the deer around here can’t tell time, you see them at all hours of the day. My son has saw several does in our front yard a 6:45 in the morning when he leaves for work during the past week. I will make some mad by saying this about the 1 hour time change messing them up, they ought to try swinging/ rotating shifts like I did for 20 years- 7 straight days of working 8 hr first shift, 48 hours off not 2 days and 7 more days 2nd shift, 48 hours off and then 7 straight nights on third/graveyard shift before getting a 4 day weekend and starting over.
Tipper, Your videos and daily posts are always a welcome treat for me. We especially enjoy trying your recipes. I use your simple pizza dough recipe often. May God bless you and your family.
As always, praying for Granny.
I love reading your recipes. Your cookbook would be wonderful to win!
Minor flaws do not bother me at all, in people or in books. I’d love to have a copy of your cookbook to see if I can learn to make better biscuits and a good pie crust! Thank you for our daily dose of Appalachian culture!
Tipper, congratulations to you and Jim on your Award of Excellence, it is well deserved! I love my copy of your cookbook and have made several of your recipes, which have all been delicious! I’d love to be at your book signing, however, geographically that is impossible, .
I love my copy! For me it’s a comfort, welcome kitchen companion.
I have purchased lots of cookbooks over the years; I might copy down a recipe or two. I then give them to my daughter. Not so with this book, it’s a keeper. Thank you, for all the hard work & love that went into this special book. It’s so much more than a cookbook, It’s a way of life.
I would love a copy of your cookbook.
I would be blessed to receive a cookbook! Thank you for all your posts. I didn’t grow up around your area and feel I really missed out. Love your stories and recipes!
We never miss any of your You tube videos. Keep up the good work!
Tipper, I am tearing up already as I write this. When I found your channel, I realized you cook the same kind of food I was brought up with even though I was raised in Dallas, Texas. Turns out watching you cook and listening to your vocabulary lessons made me realize how much Appalachia was brought to me by my granddaddy who grew up there. Once again, I was surprised with Matt using the word Torge. I didn’t even realize until then that that’s the way I still say it. So many words, so much music and so much food from Appalachia have so wonderfully touched my life. Thank you for keeping all this alive and sorry this post is so long
I ordered that wonderful cookbook and then, because I only cook for myself, gave it to a precious young newly-married couple. I really need to order another copy just to enjoy all it contains!
We started watching you on YouTube a year ago. Always look forward to your posts. We’ve tried a few of your recipes. Loved the canned cole slaw and the Arsh cake recipes.
I would dearly love a copy of your book. I’ve used some recipes you have posted in the blog and always enjoyed them
The recipes in your cookbook are the kind of food I grew up eating and still do. After years of searching, I had given up on finding a recipe for the chocolate frosting Mom made when I was a child, so words can not explain how happy I was to learn that you and Granny make the same frosting I craved but thought I would never be able to enjoy again. I handwrote the recipe everywhere I thought my kids and grandkids might discover it after I am gone, shared it with friends and family, and make it often. The next recipe I want to try is the black walnut cake, the perfect cake for this time of year, with the main ingredients free and easy to find. Thank you, Tipper, for sharing recipes for the best food in the world.
This would be a great cookbook to add to my collection. I enjoy reading cookbooks, especially older ones with recipes no one makes anymore.
Tipper, even a damaged cookbook of yours would be worth it’s weight in gold!
Ditto to Matt T’s post. I’d love that cookbook. Two things I’ve never managed satisfactorily are my grandma’s cornbread and my dad’s cornmeal pancakes.
OK, ma’am I think maybe more than just me would like to hear more about corn meal pancakes. Do you mean corn fritters? Sometimes I just want them and not a pone.
I love your cookbook! I have also purchased it for my kids and they also love it. One of my sons hunts and he and his wife also have a nice garden in Ohio and love canning too – so they enjoy all the recipes. We all love the Persimmon Bread – as they were plentiful this year in our area. Thank you for all you do!
Good morning! Hope Granny will enjoy some white sweet potatoes today! In quilting, a block with a mistake is still added as a “humility” block. Perhaps these are “humility” cookbooks. If I win one, I will pass my perfect copy on to a friend.
I would be so happy to have a copy of your cookbook. I think your cooking & mine have lot in common!
Sandra Cole
I read your blog every morning and watch you on utube. You make all us feel a part of your family. I would love a copy of your book, but if I don’t win , I’m planning on buying it in Granite Falls. I live in the piedmont of NC and live about 75 from the book store. It’s going to be a good day trip.
I have one of your cookbooks and thoroughly enjoy it so do not put my name in the hat for the drawing. Congratulations on the well-deserved Award of Excellence!
Daily prayers are being lifted up for Granny from Texas.
I have your cookbook and love it, I would like to win one for my daughter. I am sure she would enjoy it very much.
Hi Tipper
I would love to have your cookbook. I live in the North but have always felt a kinship to Appalachia since I first read some of the Fox Fire books I found in my library.
Hi Tipper and All! It is so good that you and Jim preserved many of the recipes of your ancestors! I know recipes are history and history is one of my favorite topics. Blessings to you and your family!
I love all cookbooks, thanks for giving it away.
Thanks so much for your videos and post. I grew up in a big city. This has been very educational for me. I have a great appreciate for your way of life.
I am so glad I found your page. It has blessed me. Prayers for all.
The content of the book is what I’m here for! Woo!
I look forward to your posts each day. I’m always transported back to my childhood and greatly appreciate all of the stories.
Maybe a cookbook is what I need to make me be a chef! I’ve enjoyed reading your blog on a daily basis for years.
Your cookbook would be a welcome addition to the other old cookbooks I have in my collection along with the many notebooks I have filled with recipes from my mother, grandmothers and great-grandmothers.
Always enjoy the Presley Family daily lives and food. I grew up and still live within 5 miles of generations of our family. We were and still are a Michigan farm family and my Grandma was known for being a very good cook of simple foods. Our main difference is that corn bread was not a regular part of our diet but Grandma’s delicious homemade white bread of which she made at least 10 loaves every week. If there was not any dessert available bread, butter and homemade jam or jelly finished off the meal with a delicious sweet touch. I also helped my Grandpa plant potatoes by dropping them in the hole and then helping him harvest them. Wonderful memories of a very good and safe childhood. I would really love to receive a copy of your cookbook to share the food and stories with my grandchildren. I also remember crawling under Grandma and Grandpa’s bed when they killed the hog as it really squealed. Every child should be able to experience many of the experience s that I did as a child.
We have 2 of your two’s cookbook; one I gifted my wife then another our sister-in-law gifted her later. So, skip us for the drawing. On another subject, I usually read every comment every day, checking last after 6PM. Others here often comment on what I also see and feel; a close community most of whose members have never met and most of whom never will. I marvel at that. And I’m sure there are many great life lessons in it. I’m reminded of how back in early US days, it was often families that banded together to migrate west to find affordable land but other bonds such as church, skills, language, etc added to that. Guess I’ll tie my hobby horse up now and move along.
Both sides of my family were from eastern Ky so even though I lived in northeastern Ohio from the age of four- and one-half years old I experienced Appalachia in every way, including the food and dialect. I always say that I took the best from each location, but my heart was in Appalachia. I only had one grandparent growing up, my mother’s mother, Mamaw. I remember her churning butter and me asking to help. The dasher was too heavy for me, so the churning didn’t last long. I remember going up the hill to bring the cow back to the barn and hearing the bell ring that was around her neck. On the way my mother reached up and pulled a pawpaw from a tree and gave it to me. I know this sounds funny, but I can still smell the straw in the barn. The food was definitely the best part. I grew up with Mama’s cooking and the school’s cooking. There were foods at school that my mother did not prepare, and I enjoyed them, but Mama’s Appalachia cooking definitely was my favorite. Her green beans were the best and still are. I remember when they came in from the garden she would put a big pot on, fill it with water and fat back and cook them most of the day. They were and are the best and I make mine like that still. With corn bread fried tatars, chow chow, fresh onions, and fried pork chops it was and is a meal fit for a queen. She made a stack cake that I just loved and still do. She put her home canned apple butter between the layers and on top. It didn’t last long with five children. Mama never used recipes, she had them in her head. She is 96 years old and has slowed down in body a lot but her mind is still sharp. She had a pacemaker placed a couple weeks ago but she still gets up and attempts to cook for my brother, whom she lives with in Ohio. I have never tasted a biscuit better than hers. She mixes them up in a bowl with her hands and puts them in an iron skillet topping them with some bacon or sausage grease. They always came out the same and tasted great. I have tasted many cuisines, but I always go back to Mama’s cooking.
I enjoy reading your post each morning . It takes me back to my childhood growing up in the Appalachian foothills.
A lot of what you post about I remember my parents and grandparents talking about Such as eating leather britches.
I would love to have one of your cookbooks it is hard to find county cooking here in Central Florida.
I love the recipes you share on this blog. The actual cookbook would be a treasure.
I would love to go to Granite Falls to the book signing. I am checking to see how far it is and if I will be able to go.
I have loved reading and listening to your posts as part of my morning routine for many y
Your cookbook would be welcome way up here in northwest Ohio!
I have loved reading and listening to your posts every morning for many years. I collect cookbooks and treasure the ones that touch my heart with traditional recipes. It would be a wonderful treat to receive a copy of your cookbook.
Would love to have a copy of your cookbook. I started watching your cooking videos on YouTube about six months ago and I have enjoyed getting to know Matt, the girls, and especially you (a woman after my own heart…first a wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and daughter, always sharing and caring..such beautiful qualities as found in Proverbs 31:10-31).
I love your cookbook – it’s one of the best I have seen!
I would truly love to have your cookbook to add to my collection. Thank you.
Your cookbook is a wonderful cookbook filled with all types of memory evoking dishes and delights from by gone days and by gone people! I want to congratulate you on the award of excellence from the NC society of History-you ALWAYS DO US PROUD! I can’t think of anybody more worthy than you and Mr. Casada. Have a blessed day everybody and especially bless the frail, weak, small, desperate and helpless ones, Lord. Give special ear to those, Lord, who cannot seem to help themselves nor find their way in this hard life. THANKYOU and Amen.
We love watching your channel and enjoy the simple pleasures that so often get forgotten in our busy lives. Thank you.
I have bought two of your cookbooks in the past but gave both away for gifts to my best friends. All of us are NC natives (Lexington & Greensboro) but have scattered – two of us in Coastal SC and one in NJ. Your cookbook is a reminder of a wonderful life we once lived. I’m 73 and have been cooking since I was 10. My family is mostly gone now but the memories remain of meals shared and happy simple times shared around a table. We killed hogs, churned butter, gardened, canned, cooked everything from scratch and on and on… By sharing your life with us the viewers, you provide a snapshot into another world, one that many of us can relate to and long for. I would love to have one of your cookbooks.
I always start my day off reading your blog. It seems like sitting down and visiting with my family and sharing a recipe or garden tip. Of course I bought your recipe book would love to win a copy to share with my sister-in-law. Continued prayers for Granny and all of you.
Good Morning! I Love reading your stories and learning about Appalachian Life. Thank you for sharing with us.
Tipper, I don’t remember how I discovered you, but I’ve been with you almost from the beginning. Reading your post is one of the first things for me every day. I’ve been in flat Florida for 53 years, and miss my Appalachian foothills where I was born and raised. I need another cookbook like I need a hole in my head, but I’d love to have your and Jim’s.
I love cooking and I like to eat, so, sign me up for the drawing.
I enjoy reading your daily blog. Thank you for the inspiration.
Last night we had our near first snow flurries. It was kind of a thick, spitty rain that was coming down. We have a 3 day warm up right now, though, with highs in the mid 50s. My husband hopes it gets much cooler than this before deer season starts!
Would love your cookbook!!!
Tipper,its because of you I can finally make biscuits! the two ingredient biscuits I had never heard of until I saw you make them. They are sooooo good!! Thank you and my family thanks you!
I have your cookbook, love it!
my granddaughter got married a few weeks ago, would love to win one for her as a starter cookbook.
I’m thankful for each new day, my hubby of 40 years. my whole family.
I hope everyone has a blessed day!
We always enjoy watching y’all cook and trying some recipes!
Prayers for Granny, and all of you! Looking forward to all the fall/ winter cooking!!
The best cookbooks are the ones that have been filled with notes and suggestions….good, family loved it or add more of this or substitute this for what is called for. With a nes pristine book, you just hate to make the first note….but these seem to already have been broken in and ready for good cooks to scribble!
Hope I win! I’ve been looking forward to see the recipes you and Jim put together
I enjoy your content so much. We’ve always had a big garden and it’s fun seeing how similar people eat even from different places. Of course the regional foods are fun too! Blessings on your family! I’m thankful for you!
I love your stories and history. All the best to your family a hope Granny is doing better. Happy Holidays.
I have truly enjoyed your cookbook. I didn’t mind that it was a little bent from the mail. It meant a lot to me that you signed it because I have grown to look forward to your blog every single day as well as all three channels on You tube as often as I can watch them. Thanks so much.
Carrying on tradition with home cooking is one of the best ways to honor family and culture. Especially when it’s delicious!
Love reading your posts. My family is from Eastern Kentucky and they loved to tell our stories. My great Aunt Bessie was the cook and boy could she good. Thank you
Congratulations on yours and Jim’s award! Your cookbook sounds “chock full” of delicious recipes. When you share recipes from it, it brings me back to my paternal grandmother and some of the food she’d make for us…cornbread, biscuits, fried apples and sausage….yum :)!
Enjoy hearing the stories about living in the mountains of N.C. and about all the family. God bless ya’ll.
Good morning. I am thankful this morning and every morning that I get to read your posts. It’s so common at our house for me to mention your name. I often say to hubby, well Tipper said this or that, or Tipper does it like this. It’s like I have known you forever without ever meeting. I have tried lots of your recipes…all delicious. I have made your cinnamon cake lots of times I just made it again last weekend to donate to our church Spaghetti dinner. It’s an annual fundraiser and everyone makes and donates cakes for dessert. I know everyone who got a piece of it loved it as much as we do.
Tipper I love your stories and read your post every morning You write about the way I grew up . You cook like My Moma did
I Love the tried & true recipes
I would love to have one of your cookbooks.
Tipper I’m thankful for you and your family. As we get older it seems our family grows farther and farther apart. Even here where family is so important, it seems the old ways are slipping away a little more each passing year. Thank you for all you do and share.
This is a good way to put some excellent books to use.
I wish I was in the mountains this time of year and could attend a book signing. I really need to get on the ball and get one of your cooksbooks. I love your recipes and videos as it temporally takes my mind off the fact I’m in Florida and have no mountains.
Your cookbook reminds me of when I had just had a baby, and my oldest decided to take on cooking dinner for the family. She looked up potato soup and beef stew and made them for us. Although, I believe she had to at least double because we have a big family.
Cooking is one of my favorite things to do, my grandma was a southern cook in so many ways even though she lived in Indiana. My dad was also a good cook since he raised my sister and I. Through the week he would rely on box mixes and such, but weekends he cooked a lot from scratch. I always keep an eye out for new recipes to try.
Tipper,
It’s mighty nice of you to have November give aways every year when November rolls around.
Giving away the slightly tarnished books is a way to still put them to use and not be wasteful, a great quality to have.
I continue to follow your family and it’s adventures.
Carolyn
We love to watch the things you cook and how you cook , except deer meat♀️..I have picked up many tips from you and catch myself thinking, “this is how Tipper does it, so let’s try it “…thanks for sharing with everyone!
I misplaced my mama’s recipe for black walnut chiffon cake…but, i will keep on looking ….
I love to try your recipes that you do on YouTube. I made Granny’s Holy Smoke Cake this weekend and it was a big hit!!
It would be so special to win one of your cookbooks! Thank you for the opportunity!
Hello from Quakertown, PA. I enjoy all your posts. I wake every morning with great anticipation . From gardening, cooking , to life’s lessons . Ya’all have taught me alot. I made a few of your recipes, especially enjoy Matt’s venison roast. Pray for Granny everyday . God bless Ya’all.
In this season of thankfulness, I am thankful for your blog and videos. I grew up in Buncombe county and your entries and videos take me right back. Good memories and great people. I now live in SC and worked for years at the University here where I was privileged to know Dr. Michael Montgomery. I believe you have referenced him here as he was an expert in the Appalachian region and the development of Appalachian and Smoky Mountain English. It was a joy to know him: kind, personable, friendly, brilliant and I never ran into him on campus that I didn’t leave without learning something new. He is greatly missed. God bless you and your family. Thank you for bringing so much joy to so many.
I have the cookbook already and have enjoyed it. My favorite though is when you cook something in your kitchen from the cookbook. Makes me want to try that recipe!
Good morning Tipper,
I always enjoy watching you cook and sharing recipes. You inspired me to expand my garden and start my own seedlings instead of buying them. I also started making jelly again with my blackberries. Thank you for sharing!
Tipper, I would love to win a copy. I truly enjoy your emails.
I just love waking up to your posts in the morning! I started reading them before I moved to Murphy, NC from Indiana. I didn’t know you wrote a cookbook! Thank you for showing and teaching us about the Appalachian way of life. Andrea Minix
Have the cookbook and would like to gift one to my daughter. Love you and your family, warm thoughts and hugs to Granny.
Congratulations. I agree, your cookbook is amazing. Prayers for Granny.
I never thought of it being Appalachian food, but I was raised on food we grew. I told this before, I never knew what it was or ate pizza until I was about 16-17 years old. I still love the old time food. I wish I could come and meet Tipper at Granite Falls, but doing anything like that is now out of the question. My wife would have loved to have this cookbook and it would be a short trip we could have enjoyed, having a bent cover, or some writing on it wouldn’t have mattered, after all I have a lot of scratches and scars on me!
Seeing the title of the video, we never took our sweet potatoes up until just before the first frost. We had our first frost Saturday morning and it is predicted for us to get our first freeze along with a hard heavy frost next week.
It would be a real treat to win your cookbook. God bless!