A taste of Black Appalachia

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Too often, our attempts at nailing the family recipes end up in disaster and disappointment. This week, host Brittany Luse is joined by former Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson, author of Praisesong for the Kitchenghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks. The two talk about Appalachian food culture, turning oral recipes into written ones, and the emotional relationship between food, family and memory.

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0:20.3	Hello hello Hello. I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's been a minute from NPR. A show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:34.0	The true credit for bringing the recipes to my attention comes from our producer
0:46.6	Cori Antonio. He had these biscuits at this brunch party that he said were the best biscuits that he had ever had in his life.
0:55.0	Oh, okay?
0:56.0	Quarry Antonio is from the South, okay?
0:58.0	And that's high compliment.
1:00.0	I got chills and everything off of that.
1:02.0	The best, the best
1:03.5	Biscuits, okay.
1:04.5	That's Crystal Wilkinson, former poet laureate of Kentucky,
1:07.8	and she created the most perfect biscuit recipe
1:11.3	I've ever tried. And thanks to those flaky layers of dough and butter, I went on a journey through the foods of her upbringing and the Appalachian region of Kentucky.
1:20.0	Crystal is the culinary mind behind theay Song for the Kitchen Ghosts,
1:25.0	Stories and recipes from five generations of Black Country cooks.
1:29.0	It's a cookbook that weaves intimate stories with treasured family recipes to pay tribute to the women and
1:34.7	Crystal's family who taught her how to live, love, and cook.
1:39.6	It came to me when my grandmother passed away.
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