Welcome to North of Your Mother’s Kitchen! Here we’re going to explore the best foods throughout Northern Appalachia. Many of the other parts of Appalachia, such as Southern Appalachia, have well known cookbooks and many of their foods are known throughout the United States. But Northern Appalachia gets hardly any recognition for our (fantastic) foods.
I am an undergraduate, soon to be graduate, student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania studying English literature. I hope to post regularly but as I am as student preparing to graduate in a month, time seems hard to find. Also, I am a Pittsburgh native, born and raised on black and gold. Many of my posts will include personal antidotes. If you’ve eaten any of the foods let me know your experiences with it (when you eat it, how you eat it, who makes it) in the comments!
If you are from West Virginia, Pennsylvania or Ohio, you count as a Northern Appalachian. Hopefully, I’ll discuss some of the foods you grew up eating! If you’re from Northern Appalachia and there’s a food your family eats that you want history on, leave it in the comments and they might pop up in a post! Also feel free to include your personal stories of the foods you share!