In 'Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts,' Crystal Wilkinson shares recipes, Black Appalachian stories

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on April 23, 2024. Find that audio here. 

Former Kentucky Poet-Laureate Crystal Wilkinson's new book "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" is both a family memoir and a cookbook. She joins host Celeste Headlee to talk about it.

By Crystal Wilkinson

Chicken and dumplings

Corn pudding

Grandmother’s blackberry cobbler

Pine lick mutton leg and gravy

Excerpted from "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts," reprinted with permission of Penguin Random House