The Food-Obsessed Subculture Of The Appalachian Trail

The Sporkful

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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How do you feed yourself on a hike that’s more than 2,200 miles long and takes six months to complete? Every summer, hundreds of people attempting to hike the entire Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine, are faced with that question. This week senior producer Emma Morgenstern heads to Pine Grove General Store, the trail’s halfway point, and enters a world where most typical rules of eating seem not to apply.

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0:00.0	A lot of people will just take out a bottle of olive oil and just drink it out of the bottle.
0:09.0	You take three or four tablespoons of that and you put it into some ramen or you put
0:13.0	it in the mashed potatoes and you add a bunch of calories and you know you wouldn't necessarily
0:16.8	do it at home but out here you know.
0:23.1	This is the SportFull.
0:24.1	It's not for foodies, it's for eaters.
0:25.9	I'm Dan Pashman.
0:27.3	Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people.
0:31.1	This week our senior producer Emma Morgan Stern's bringing us a story she's been working
0:34.3	out for a little while.
0:35.3	Hey Emma.
0:36.3	Hey Dan.
0:37.3	So what's going on?
0:38.3	What do you got for us?
0:39.3	So in the summer I love going hiking.
0:41.7	I live in New York so we're pretty close to one of the most famous hiking routes in the
0:45.5	country, the Appalachian Trail.
0:47.3	Well I got to stop you right there.
0:49.3	You know I grew up calling it Appalachian Trail.
0:52.2	I know some people say Appalachian.
0:54.5	We actually looked into this according to West Virginia Public Radio.
0:57.3	There are no fewer than six different ways to pronounce it.
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