Preparing and Enjoying Tasty Appalachian Food
- Categories
- Appalachian Collections > Appalachian Folklife Archive
- Subject
- Appalachia
- Oral histories--Appalachia
- Folklore--Appalachia
- Canning and preserving.
- Cooking.
- Apple butter
- Creator
- Slate, Mary
- Culler, Carrie Sue
- Slate, Ernest
- Slate, Maggie
- Fain, Linda
- Bowman, Macy
- Type
- text and audio
- Coverage - Temporal
- 2003
- Date
- 2003-12-04
- 2020-08-04
- Identifier
- 203.446.7.pdf
- Language
- english
- Publisher
- Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center. Radford University
- Archives & Special Collections. McConnell Library. Radford University
- Description
- In this project, Mary Slate interviewed Carrie Sue Culler, Ernest and Maggie Slate, Linda Fain, and Macy Bowman to learn more about cooking in Appalachia. Various topics in these interviews include making apple butter, using what foods they grew, preserving food by canning and drying, making leather britches, cooking wild game, and about how neighbors would borrow and lend things to each other. This interview is among projects created by students enrolled in English 446 (initially English 452), “Appalachian Folklore,” 1981-2019, and in graduate level counterparts English 548 and 648 “Appalachian Folk Culture(s)” offered 17 fall semesters between 1987 and 2009. Minimally contain collector’s introduction and analysis, transcribed informant interviews, and excerpted and labeled examples of oral, customary, and/or material folklore/folklife collected primarily within the Appalachian region. Most include also tables of contents, informant information, indexes (outlines) of interviews, photographs, miscellaneous paper items, and indexes of informants, genres, and geographic locations. Accompanying audio recordings (several minutes to 2+ hours). Transferred to McConnell Library Archives & Special Collections from Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center, Fall 2013.
- Rights
- All rights are reserved by the original creators and their informants, excepting those expressly provided in a permission form on file in the Archives offices. Content is available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections, Radford University, Radford, VA). Any commercial use of the materials, without the written permission of Radford University, is strictly prohibited. Please refer to the McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections website for more information.