By From corn bread to hearty soups, West Virginia’s culinary history is alive and well. As food historians and hearth cooks, we have gained a knowledge and appreciation of early West Virginia cookery over the past 25 years. Cooking was more laborintensive for our pioneer ancestors. Seasonality meant families ate what
A Boy and His Bird
The ancient art of falconry lives on with a West Virginia teenager. For more than a millennium, people in Japan and China have used aquatic birds called cormorants to help them catch fish. A fisherman ties a hemp snare around a trained bird’s throat so that, when the animal dives
