HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Road Trip Through Appalachia

What I ate and learned along Route 11

Carolyn Stewart

HUMANITIES, Spring 2022, Volume 43, Number 2

Slice of sweet potato pie

Daisy Mae’s sweet potato pie at Benne on Eagle in Asheville, North Carolina, where chef Ophus Hethington draws on family recipes and the cuisine of the African diaspora.

—Carolyn Stewart

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Appalachian Road Diary Sketch

Carolyn Stewart takes us on a tour of Appalachian foodways and finds out what they tell us about ourselves.

—Illustration by Stan Fellows

Volume 43, Issue 2

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