Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Regional food

Those men would eat like hungry men do eat, you know

When they threshed that wheat? Somebody came in with a threshing machine. He made a business of traveling around to all the farms.

Turtle soup was a monumental French culinary delight. The men in French families often “felt” for snapping turtles in local streams.

Cider for apple butter must be perfectly new from the press. The sweeter and mellower the apples are, the better will the apple butter be.

This is a diagram of the general life cycle of Allium tricoccum—ramps.

Mountain folks have traditionally looked forward to the return of the ramp after a winter of eating mostly dried foods.

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