In this collection of writings about the foodways of the Appalachian region, Fred W. Sauceman guides readers through country kitchens and church fellowship halls, across pasture fields and into smokehouses, down rows of vegetable gardens and alongside ponds resonant with the sounds of a summer night. The scenes and subjects are often uniquely personal, and they combine to tell a love story, a chronicle of one person's affection for a region and its people, its products, and its places.