Eating your greens is one thing, eating your poisonous greens is another. Filmmaker Joe York and the Southern Foodways Alliance shed light on poke sallet, a Mississippi staple in many households. Poke ...

It would be extremely hard nowadays to imagine a family not visiting a grocery store each week. It would be even harder to imagine having to “live off the land” today. Growing up in a large ...

Poke sallet has long been a staple in the Appalachian South. Also known as pokeweed, pokebush, pokeroot, it goes by the Latin name Phytolacca americana. As Southern Foodways Alliance member Joe York ...

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Poke, the plant in the ’60s song “Poke Salad Annie,” is one of the unsung heroes of the American Revolution. From its berries came the writing ink of the common colonist far from sources of rare and ...

For all my born days, I have heard pastors say “Today's sermon is one that I was 'led' to preach.” I must say that I was first 'led' into the composition of this month's submission by a very special ...

Question: I live in a rural East Texas, and have an abundance of Poke Salad. If you know how to prepare it, it's a springtime treat for anyone who enjoys veggies. However, for the last few years, many ...

Poke salad comes from young pokeweed leaves, made safe to eat through careful boiling. The leaves are boiled twice, drained, and often sautéed in bacon grease. It's a traditional Southern foraged dish ...

For a quarter century, Pelly's Fish Market & Café has been serving fresh seafood out of a shopping center in Carlsbad. I've known about it for about three days. Figuring I had a lot to catch up on, I ...