First published 2014
Kent Whitaker presents traditional West Virginia cooking through recipes collected from local home cooks across the Mountain State. This seventh edition in the State Hometown Cookbook Series combines easy recipes with stories about regional food culture. Whitaker includes dishes like West Virginia Cast-Iron Sugar Snap Peas, Golden Delicious Wassail, First Lady's Cornbread Salsa, Molasses Raisin Cookies, Mom's Hot Fried Buttermilk Chicken, and Pawpaw Chiffon Pie. The cookbook features Mountain Mini Trout Cakes, Berkeley Springs Oven-Baked Apple Butter, and Frosted Honey Cake alongside many other regional specialties. Whitaker documents local food festivals throughout West Virginia, from the Hogging Up West Virginia BBQ & Music Festival to the Ramps & Rail Festival in Elkins, the West Virginia Peach Festival, Autumn Harvest Festival & Roadkill Cook-Off in Marlinton, West Virginia Black Walnut Festival, and West Virginia Hot Dog Festival in Huntington. The book preserves the state's culinary traditions through tested recipes passed down through generations of Mountain State families.
Genres: cooking, food, cookbooks, food-and-drink, food-writing, food-history
Vibes: cozy, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family
Setting: Berkeley Springs, Elkins, Huntington, Marlinton, Mountain State, West Virginia
Period: 19th-century, 20th-century, 21st-century
256 pages · Perfect Paperback · Great American Publishers