In a brief scene in Les Blank's 1983 documentary Sprout Wings and Fly, on Surry County, North Carolina fiddler Tommy Jarrell , Ja...

As the New Yorker informed us all last month, figs are pretty goth. The fruit, which is actually an inverted flower, has developed a sy...

Photo by Chris Chen from  Pi(e) Day 2013 at The Dunes, Washington, D.C. Happy Pi(e) Day! I hope you are enjoying the mathematical excus...

This past weekend I attended the Appalachian Storytellers edition of the Blind Pig Supper Club at Claxton Farm in Weaverville, North C...

    Nabs. Peanut Butter Crackers. Lance's Toast Chee . Whatever you call them, you are likely familiar with the unnaturally floresce...

It's been hard to find the time to blog lately. That's not a complaint, necessarily, just the way it is, with long full-time ho...

Honey may just be the most sacred food there is. It is literally concentrated nectar, tastes sweeter to the tongue than refined sugar, an...

This is the first time in 5 years that I'm not putting on a big Pi(e) Day party, and though I've always had fun, I have to say it...

Growing up it was an annual fall tradition to make the trip to   Eberly's Orchard , near my grandparents' house in North Liberty,...

Alright. Gonna try to get this little segment goin' again. 1st slice. My friend April McGreger's new book Sweet Potatoes ...

I first made this Pimento Cheese and Tomato Pie when I was in grad school at the University of North Carolina. My friend Emily Wallace (...