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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...