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Appalachia

Plates with Lamb, Basket Meeting Potatoes and Beans, and Cake on a table.

Food & Drink

Plus, three springtime recipes from “Affrilachian” writer Crystal Wilkinson’s beautiful new cookbook

A man in a cooking apron stands in a kitchen and smiles

Food & Drink

The Asheville chef is up for an Outstanding Restaurant James Beard award and coming out with his first cookbook. We caught up with him on thoughtful cooking, foraging, and Benton’s ham

A hiker stands on a rock path and looks out over a mountainscape

Land & Conservation

The host of George Mason University’s “The Green Tunnel” podcast shares surprising perspectives from the first three seasons

Music

Plus more special sounds as Smithsonian Folkways Recordings marks seventy-five years

Travel

Blue Ridge bites, picturesque breweries, lush hiking trails, and cool rivers to explore in this Shenandoah Valley gem

Arts & Culture

No one has tapped into Southern truths quite like the Virginia-raised author, whose fifteen novels span Appalachia to the Florida Keys. Just ask the legion of writers who praise Smith for guiding their own stories

Food & Drink

Slathered with apple-butter-onion-jam and crowned with pickles and slaw, North Carolina’s Over Yonder burger is a taste of the mountain South you can make at home

Books

A new book—and a new oral history project—highlight the rural women whose stories continue to shape Appalachia

Arts & Culture

Plott Hound Books is the place to find thoughtfully curated reads—and advice on where to eat while you turn the pages

Arts & Culture

A novelist interviews Dopesick writer Beth Macy and the author Silas House, who tells him, “I never trust a writer who doesn’t doubt themselves”

SEVERE WEATHER

After devastating waters wrecked novelist Silas House’s Eastern Kentucky homeland last week, he worked alongside the helpers—those who refuse to let the voices of Appalachia go under.

Arts & Culture

Whitesburg, Kentucky’s Appalshop celebrates a milestone of preserving the culture of the Southern mountains

Books

A new book of recovered photos taken on the porches and back roads of Appalachia offers an intimate look at some of traditional Southern music’s early greats

Books

An Appalachian Duet: Two books to add to your shelf this fall

Arts & Culture

How the bluegrass balladeer and TV host David Holt helps preserve—and move forward—the region’s traditional sounds

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Arts & Culture

Past students and participants of Foxfire celebrate Appalachian traditions

Food & Drink

From ancient times, the story of Appalachia has in many ways been the story of salt. And whether sprinkled on watermelon or in chili slathered on a hot dog bun, for the Kentucky native and foodways expert Ronni Lundy, it’s the taste of summer in the mountain South

Food & Drink

A Southern mountain take on a Swiss classic

Food & Drink

An Appalachian custard stand classic

Food & Drink

The story of salt-rising bread