The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery

I checked this book out so many times from the library, I finally broke down and found one at a good price on Amazon. You won' regret it if you pick this one up!

This is a great book filled with some of best and unique recipes! Great for the money and you will love the book!

This is a wonderful cookbook!I am so excited; I got it yesterday and have been reading it like a book; every chapter has a story or several stories about how it was made with long quotes from the author of the recipe and most wonderfully it includes wild foraged food recipes!!!Topics I find exciting are:* cakes & frostings with a whole chapter on frosting; custard sauce, plain icing, lemon sauce, Ivory frosting ...* biscuits, dumplings, cornmeal recipes .... grits, pones,* vegetables; poke weed, cochan, crease, & where to find them and when to pick them ... then how to cook them ...* lots of meat recipes including meat you can buy in a store and meats you can't like possum ... as well as recipes for every part of a pig, since I grow my own pigs it's nice to have a recipe for jowls, etc ...* a whole chapter on gravy!!! wonderful recipes for cornmeal gravy, skillet gravy, red eye gravy, egg gravy, giblet gravy ...* potato salads! slaw!If you enjoy rural culture then you will certainly enjoy this book; I have most of the other fire Fox books & I love them and this is like those books but with recipes. Foxfire 3: Animal Care, Banjos and Dulcimers, Hide Tanning, Summer and Fall Wild Plant Foods, Butter Churns, Ginseng, and Still More Affairs of Plain Living

There aren't enough stars to rate this cookbook as high as I would like to. If you want some down home good everyday cooking receipes along with some wonderful stories, please do yourself a favor and get this cookbook. I have bought 5 or so of these cookbooks and currently have 2 on hand. One to use and one to keep to make sure I have one when I wear the other one out. The other books were "loaned" to my kids and friends and never made it back home.This is not one of those cookbooks that you buy and then use now and then to cook up something "fancy" for company. This one is sure to be used all the time for "comfort" food for family and friends. And don't forget all the wonderful stories to go along with the receipes and the directions on how to prepare things to get them ready to cook. Great book, 'nuff said!!!!!!!!!!

Don't buy just one, get two because you will never want to be without a copy. My kids kept borrowing mine so often I just went ahead and got them their own copy. Then I got mysef a spare for just in case. This is way more than a cookbook, it is a way of life. The stories that go along with some of the receipes are entertaining but also a history of a people that were self-reliant and made the most of what they had. Money was scarce and times were hard by today's standards but these folks thrived in spite of the hardships. Follow the receipes and you will turn out some real southern down home comfort food. Buy it for the stories, buy it for the receipes, but above all, buy it!!!

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This is a good study of days gone bye and yet the information is still just as important. A good mix of recipes and the history behind them.

A lady on Facebook that we follow uses many recipes from this cookbook. We like her cooking, so we bought the book. We are happy with the purchase.

This is a historical treasure and helped me greatly in understanding my own family's cooking culture and traditions, three generations away from Appalachia.... An excellent read, as well as some good recipes.

If you enjoy the Fox Fire appalachian way of life, this is the have to have cookbook.