When you hear the term “Appalachian cooking,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? If your answer is scrappy, down-home country fare, heavy on southern influence (maybe with a squirrel thrown in ...

ASHEVILLE - In the latest episode of "Top Chef," the five remaining contestants took a detour from filming in Charlotte and Greenville, South Carolina, to trek to the Appalachian Mountains for a taste ...

Step into traditional Appalachian cooking with a comforting supper of meatloaf and classic side dishes made the simple way.

Chef William Dissen is an early pioneer of the farm-to-table and ocean sustainability movements in the Appalachia region. West Virginia-born restaurateur and chef William Dissen and his wife Jenny, a ...

I recently made Ronni Lundy’s creamy pea and ham soup from "Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes" (Photo by Sarah Melotte). Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, ...

Appalachian cuisine is centuries old and created by people who often lived on what they could grow, forage, hunt, and preserve. The Appalachian region spans 13 states, from southern New York to ...

As a kid, I delighted in grossing out my elementary school classmates with details of how my lower-income, Middle Tennessee family ate squirrel meat. My grandfather would go out with a hunting rifle ...