I recently made Ronni Lundy’s creamy pea and ham soup from "Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes" (Photo by Sarah Melotte). Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, ...

When Erica Abrams Locklear discovered her Appalachian grandmother’s cookbook, she was shocked by what she found. It was filled with recipes for “traditional” mountain foods like apple stack cake and ...

Venerated food writer Ronni Lundy has spent a lifetime immersed in the magic of Appalachia. But as she notes in her latest book, Victuals (pronounced “vittles”), “maybe no area of our country is more ...

If you live in the South, you love history and you’ve been to a church supper or a family reunion, you need the revised edition of “The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery.” Do you remember the ...

In her new book, “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts,” the poet Crystal Wilkinson explores her family history through cooking and recipes. For Crystal Wilkinson, an acclaimed poet and fiction writer, ...

Last year, the title of an article in Food & Wine magazine read, “Appalachia Doesn’t Need Saving, It Needs Respect.” The accompanying article was by chef Travis Milton, whose restaurant, Hickory at ...

The 1,500-mile Appalachian Mountain range stretches so far that those on the northern and southern sides can't agree on what to call it: Appa-LAY-chia or Appa-LATCH-ia. The outside perspective on the ...

Southern Appalachia stretches from Tennessee to North Carolina, up north through Kentucky and the Virginias to the Ohio and Pennsylvania borders, and south past the state lines of Alabama, Georgia and ...

Food homegrown in the Smoky Mountains and wild waterfowl nesting beneath the northern lights may not share much in common, but books chronicling the history of each would be welcome on anyone’s ...

Margaret Norton, who is prominently featured in the first Foxfire book, churns butter as she is being interviewed by a student in 1967. The original Foxfire book series consists of 12 volumes, but ...