Staff Pick
Award-winning blogger Lauren Angelucci McDuffie brings the down-home goodness of Appalachian cooking with its quiet Southern flair into your kitchen. Appalachian cooking comes from generations of salt of the earth folks making do with easily grown veg and fruit to make simple yet sumptuous meals. Moonshine, succotash, pimientos, and bourbon. This is a beautiful cookbook with soft and stark photos by the author. This is a perfectly giftable book, and you’ll want to gift yourself a copy as well. (I’m going to suggest you give your mom a copy, as the dedication reads: "For you Mom. You were right all along.") Recommended By Tracey T., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
This evocative cookbook rooted in Appalachian ingredients and flavors takes readers and cooks deep into the heart and soul of America. Here are more than 70 recipes that use modern cooking techniques to transform traditional comfort food with a mountain sensibility into inspired meals and menus for anyone. Every chapter opens with storytelling that echoes the folklore and tall tales of the region, while more than 80 beautiful color photographs capture mouthwatering dishes for all occasions — from morning beverages to a show-stopping berry buckle — as well as the tools, fruits, flowers, and scenery of life in the Mountain South.
Synopsis
From the writer of the award-winning food blog Harvest and Honey, including Saveur Best Blog finalist Showcasing the flavors and modern cooking techniques of Appalachia and the Blue Ridge Mountains: With over 70 delectable recipes and 80 stunning photographs organized by seasons, Smoke, Roots, Mountain, Harvest is an evocative cookbook rooted in Appalachian ingredients and flavors that takes readers and cooks deep into the heart and soul of America. Lauren McDuffie uses modern cooking techniques to transform traditional comfort food with a mountain sensibility into inspired meals and menus for anyone.
- Each chapter opens with storytelling that echoes the folklore and tall tales of the region.
- Beautiful color photographs capture mouthwatering dishes for all occasions--from morning beverages to a show-stopping berry buckle--as well as the tools, fruits, flowers, and scenery of life in the Mountain South.
- From the mountains of southwestern Virginia, Lauren McDuffie is a writer, food stylist, photographer, and creator of the blog Harvest and Honey.
"Smoke, Roots, Mountain, Harvest is a brilliant ode to the Appalachians. Lauren's storytelling and dazzling photographs are only eclipsed by her inventive, sumptuous recipes. A true masterpiece " --Sonja Overhiser, Author of Pretty Simple Cooking and creator of the blog A Couple Cooks- Menu suggestions and wine pairings encompass a variety of meal occasions, from small plates to soups, salads, mains, sides, drinks, dessert, along with tips and techniques on canning, pickling, and preserving.
- Mouthwatering recipes include Shaved Summer Squash Salad with Pickled Pepper Vinaigrette, Slow-Roasted Onion and Golden Apple Soup, Baked Pork Chops with Cran-Apple Moonshine Compote, Drunken Short Ribs with Smoky Gouda Grits and Mountain Gremolata, Pan-Seared Carrots with Bourbon-Maple Glaze, Triple Orange Cake with Honey-Lavender Buttercream, and many more.
About the Author
Lauren McDuffie is an Appalachian born and bred freelance writer, food stylist, photographer, and creator of the blog Harvest and Honey. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.