The secret lives of dried apples, biscuits, and other Appalachian foods.
. We asked three writers with Appalachian roots to describe a food that embodies their family and heritage.
The lively conversation in our family home in Check, Virginia where Great Uncle Hobe and Great Aunt Annie raised my daddy centered around the tangled stories of moonshiners and apple pickers. Nearly a hundred years ago, Ruby and Annie started picking bushels of apples from the family orchard and with pinched fingers painstakingly placed them, thin slice by thin slice, over screen doors laid out on sawhorses in the backyard.
“Park in the sun,” my mother told my big brother, Sam, “and they’ll still be good at supper.” To the rest of the world, that meant lunchtime, but we didn’t care much about the world we could not see through our cracked windshield. We picked at the crumbs, careful not to let one get away. My mother called them “traveling biscuits,” which made me think of the hot dogs that danced across the screen during intermission at the Midway Drive-In Theater. They always made me laugh.“You chucklehead,” my brother said, and he tried to be mean about it, but it wasn’t in him. It never was.
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