What’s Wrong With My Southern Cornbread? How to Make Great Cornbread Guest Post by K. A. Miller Southern cornbread is a great favorite in the South of the United States. It is also popular around the world. I have had request for my recipe from Germany, India and the Philippine Islands. I suspect that many [...]
Tasty and Nutritious Leatherbritches Beans Electricity didn’t reach most parts of the Blue Ridge Mountains until the 1930’s. No electricity meant that there were no modern conveniences for food storage, such as refrigerators and freezers. So until a couple of generations ago, food was preserved the old-fashioned way: by drying and canning. Drying fruits and [...]
Nothing says “southern cooking” like a big bowl of grits. Most Americans have never eaten grits; some confuse “grit” with “dirt”. To those folks I say: thanks! More grits for me. To the un-initiated let me say: grits are just corn. In gourmet circles, it’s known as polenta. It’s not new, and it’s not just [...]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU31AS69sJI&feature=related In England, the plants are known as ramson; in France they are ail sauvage. Native Americans in the Great Lakes area called the plants Chicagou, for which the city of Chicago is named. Elsewhere in the world they are known as wild leeks, wild garlic and spring onions. In the Blue Ridge Mountains and [...]
They call it that old mountain dew And them that refuse it are few You may go ’round the bend But you’ll come back again For that good old mountain dew The folks of the Blue Ridge Mountains take their moonshine seriously. Moonshine liquor was always a part of the colonial Virginia culture: just 13 [...]
