Appalachian cuisine

Appalachian cuisine is a style of cuisine located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States. It is an amalgam of the diverse foodways, specifically among the British, German and Italian immigrant populations, Native Americans including the Cherokee people, and African-Americans, as well as their descendants in the Appalachia region.[1][2]

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The cuisine of Appalachia focuses on seasonal local ingredients and practices like pickling, foraging, canning and food preserving.[1][3][4][2] Appalachian cuisine is a subset of Southern cuisine, and is specifically different because of the cold winters and the mountainous landscape.[3][5][6][7][8] Promoters of Appalachian foodways include Eliot Wigginton,[9][10] Ronni Lundy,[8] John Fleer,[11] Lora Smith,[11] Kendra Bailey Morris,[11] Travis Milton,[11] Ashleigh Shanti,[12] and Sean Brock.[11]

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  3. ^ a b "What Exactly Is Appalachian Cuisine?". The Manual. October 9, 2020.
  4. ^ Hood, Abby Lee (November 1, 2021). "Are Appalachian Foodways at Risk of Being Lost Forever?". Modern Farmer (magazine).
  5. ^ Balestier, Courtney (2013-05-01). "Of Pepperoni Rolls and Soup BeansOn What it Might Mean to Eat Like a West Virginian". Gastronomica. 13 (2): 52–54. doi:10.1525/gfc.2013.13.2.52. ISSN 1529-3262.
  6. ^ Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D. (2015). "Beyond Grits and Gravy: Appalachian Chicken and Waffles: Countering Southern Food Fetishism". Southern Cultures. 21 (1): 72–83. doi:10.1353/scu.2015.0003. JSTOR 26220214. S2CID 144391214 – via JSTOR.
  7. ^ Black, Jane (2016-03-29). "The next big thing in American regional cooking: Humble Appalachia". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
  8. ^ a b Downs, Jere. "'Victuals' tells stories of Appalachian food". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved 2023-03-14. difference between Southern food and Appalachian food is that we have winter in the mountains
  9. ^ Wilkerson, Jessica (2022). "Reading Foxfire". Southern Cultures, Vol. 28. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  10. ^ Wallace, C. G. (2004-05-09). "Foxfire Tries to Scale Mountain of Misfortune". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  11. ^ a b c d e Kinsman, Kat (March 8, 2022). "Appalachia Doesn't Need Saving, It Needs Respect". Food & Wine.
  12. ^ Eligon, John; Moskin, Julia (2019-07-16). "16 Black Chefs Changing Food in America". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-14.