Food Life

Food Life

Photo Credit: Menu from the Landina Guest House Hendersonville’s Green Book Guest House, Courtesy of Melinda Lowrance

Food Life

Using Local Recipes

Many of these local recipes are shared in the old time way, just as cooks traditionally shared recipes. They list the ...
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Sweet Potato Cobbler

The Rev. Mildred Twitty, Pastor of St. Paul AME Zion Church, learned to make sweet potato cobbler from her mother ...
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Fried Green Tomatoes at 1205 6th Ave. West

Sliced Green tomatoes (thick) Flour & Corn Meal Mixture Salt Pepper Crushed Cayenne Pepper Lard or Bacon Grease I don’t ...
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Poke Weed

Poke Salad

This is the poisonous "Pokeweed". My Grandmother, Mom, and North Carolina family used Poke to cook "Poke Salad". In the ...
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