Ep. 19 | Appalachian Foodways
To kick off Season 2 of Read Appalachia, host Kendra Winchester talks to special guests Erica Abrams Locklear and Crystal Wilkinson.
Things Mentioned
Chefs Mentioned
John Fleer, Rhubarb
William Dissen, The Marketplace
Ashleigh Shanti, Good Hot Fish
Sean Brock, Audrey
Travis Milton, Hickory
Books Mentioned
Appalachia on the Table by Erica Abrams Locklear
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkinson
The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson
Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson
Victuals by Ronny Lundy
Weedeater by Robert Gipe
Pop by Robert Gipe
The Safety of Small Things by Jane Hicks
Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy
The Second Stop Is Jupiter by upfromsumdirt
English Lit by Bernard Clay
Love House by Frank X Walker
Tougaloo Blues by Kelly Norman Ellis
Mother Country by Jacinda Townsend
The Girl Singer by Marianne Worthington
Daughters of Muscadine: Stories by Monic Ductin
Guest Info
(c) Erica Abrams Locklear
Erica Abrams Locklear is a professor of English and the Thomas Howerton Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of North Carolina Asheville. She is the author of Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People (University of Georgia Press) and Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appalachian Women’s Literacies (Ohio University Press). She is a seventh-generation Western North Carolinian who loves good food and good books.
(c) Carsen Bryant
Crystal Wilkinson, a recent fellowship recipient of the Academy of American Poets, is the award-winning author of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a culinary memoir, Perfect Black, a collection of poems, and three works of fiction—The Birds of Opulence, Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries. She is the recipient of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry, an O. Henry Prize, a USA Artists Fellowship, and an Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. She has received recognition from the Yaddo Foundation, Hedgebrook, The Vermont Studio Center for the Arts, The Hermitage Foundation and others. Her short stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including most recently in The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, STORY, Agni Literary Journal, Emergence, Oxford American and Southern Cultures. She was Poet Laureate of Kentucky from 2021 to 2023. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Kentucky where she is a Bush-Holbrook Endowed Professor.
