Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you ...

TABLE TALK: Erica Abrams Locklear will discuss her new book, Appalachia on the Table, with chef John Fleer at Malaprop's on Tuesday, April 18. Photo by Tim Barnwell The title of Erica Abrams ...

When Erica Abrams Locklear discovered her Appalachian grandmother’s cookbook, she was shocked by what she found. It was filled with recipes for “traditional” mountain foods like apple stack cake and ...

BUNCOMBE BOOKWORM: Professor Erica Abrams Locklear believes her UNCA students need to see themselves represented in literature. Photo courtesy of UNCA Update, Sept. 6, 2021: This piece was updated to ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Argues that since the conception of Appalachia as a distinctly different region from the rest of the South and the United States, the foods ...