Appalachian Home Cooking: History, Culture, and Recipes

by Mark F. Sohn

Paperback, 2005

Status

Call number

American - Appalachian, Amish -- SOH

Call number

American - Appalachian, Amish -- SOH

Publication

The University Press of Kentucky (2005), Edition: illustrated edition, Paperback, 384 pages

Description

Mark F. Sohn's classic book, Mountain Country Cooking, was a James Beard Award nominee in 1997. In Appalachian Home Cooking, Sohn expands and improves upon his earlier work by using his extensive knowledge of cooking to uncover the romantic secrets of Appalachian food, both within and beyond the kitchen. The foods of Appalachia are the medium for the history of a creative culture and a proud people. This is the story of pigs and chickens, corn and beans, and apples and peaches as they reflect the culture that has grown from the region's topography, climate, and soil. Sohn unfolds the ways o

Physical description

384 p.; 9.16 inches

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