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Loading... Foxfire 11: The Old Home Place, Wild Plant Uses, Preserving and Cooking Food, Hunting Stories, Fishing, More Affairs of Plain Living (Foxfire Series) (1999)by Foxfire Fund Inc., Lacy Hunter
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. DNF only because I'm not interested in all the text. It's a totally worthy book if you're interested in the history & culture of everyday people. I grabbed it from the library for the chapter on 'preserving and cooking food' as I'm always looking for basic wholesome ways to cook traditional cheap foods. I did get a 'recipe' (more like a preparation strategy, so simple) for baked chicken I might try, and a recipie for squash casserole I'm really looking forward to. no reviews | add a review
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First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center had a contact who could teach you how with clear, step-by-step instructions. This eleventh volume celebrates the rituals and recipes of the Appalachian homeplace, including a one-hundred page section on herbal remedies, and segments about planting and growing a garden, preserving and pickling, smoking and salting, honey making, beekeeping, and fishing, as well as hundreds of the kind of spritied firsthand narrative accounts from Appalachian community members that exemplify the Foxfire style. Much more than "how-to" books, the Foxfire series is a publishing phenomenon and a way of life, teaching creative self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and other country folkways, fascinating to everyone interested in rediscovering the virtues of simple life. No library descriptions found. |
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