Description: "The book, which became a tremendous resource for novices and experts alike with interests in the region's culinary culture, has now been reorganized and revised with today's heightened interest in cultural-specific cooking and food-lovers culture in mind. This edition includes new documentation, photographs, and recipes drawn from Foxfire's extensive archive of Southern Appalachian traditions while maintaining the sharp reminiscences and humor of the amazing people who were interviewed for the original volume all those years ago"--
Brief description: T.J. Smith, executive director of The Foxfire Fund, Inc., holds a Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.
Review Quotes:
"If you're wondering what came before the Noma Guide to Fermentation . . . Open-hearth cooking. Zero-waste preservation. Nose-to-tail butchery. There are any number of new guides to these hot topics from pedigreed, of-the-moment chefs--but before you buy those, you should read this year's beautiful reissue of the 1982 cult classic The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cooking. Put together by a small-but-mighty non-profit dedicated to preserving traditional Appalachian foodways, its recipes, essays, and black-and-white photos serve as a humbling reminder that before certain techniques were buzzwords, they were a means of survival for resourceful people in rural America--and, indeed, all over the world."--Bon Appétit