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Praisesong for the kitchen ghosts : stories and recipes from five generations of Black country cooks / Crystal Wilkinson ; photographs by Kelly Marshall.

by Wilkinson, Crystal.

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Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2024.

Cooking -- Appalachian Region, Southern.

Cooking, American -- Southern style.

Appalachians (People) -- Kentucky -- Anecdotes.

Food habits -- Appalachian Region, Southern.

9780593236512 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Praise song for the kitchen ghosts : stories and recipes from five generations of Black country cooks

x, 243 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Crystal Wilkinson, Kentucky’s Poet Laureate from 2021 to 2023, is the award-winning author of Perfect Black; The Birds of Opulence; Water Street; and Blackberries, Blackberries. She is the recipient of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry, an O. Henry Prize, a USA Artists Fellowship, and an Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. She has received recognition from the Yaddo Foundation, Hedgebrook, The Hermitage Foundation, and others. Her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She currently teaches at the University of Kentucky in the creative writing MFA program.

"A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes, from the former poet laureate of Kentucky."--Jacket.

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