Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People

by Erica Abrams Locklear

Book Overview

When her mother passed along a cookbook made and assembled by her grandmother, Erica Abrams Locklear thought she knew what to expect. But rather than finding a homemade cookbook full of apple stack cake, leather britches, pickled watermelon, or other "traditional" mountain recipes, Locklear discovered recipes for devil's food cake with coconut icing, grape catsup, and fig pickles. Some recipes even relied on food products like Bisquick, Swans Down...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820363391
• ISBN13: 9780820363394
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"