An Ozark Culinary History: Northwest Arkansas Traditions from Corn Dodgers to Squirrel Meatloaf

By Erin Rowe

Book Overview

Discover the rich history of Northwest Arkansas with this volume of classic recipes, culinary traditions, and stories full of nostalgic flavor.

In the 1890s, Ozark apples fed the nation. Welch's Concord grapes grew in Arkansas vineyards. Local poultry king, Tyson, still satisfies America's chicken craving. Now food writer and Arkansas native Erin Rowe recounts these and other tales of Northwest Arkansas' High South cuisine, as well as her own adventures stomping grapes, canning hominy, picking Muscadines, gathering wild watercress and tracking honeybees.

Illustrated throughout with historic photographs, An Ozark Culinary History celebrates the region's cuisine and foodways from chow-chow to moonshine. Featuring fifty heirloom recipes dating as far back as the early 1800s, it's sure to whet your curiosity and appetite.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467136085
• ISBN13: 9781467136082
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Practical recipes and delightful reading.

I get the feeling that Chef Rowe is only skimming the surface here; that there’s far more she could tell. As it is, though, she combines a delightful range of recipes with good storytelling and a light historical backdrop to the modern culinary scene in and around the Ozark Mountain region of SW Missouri and NW Arkansas.