Ashleigh Shanti’s great-grandmother, Inez Miller, lived in a house near the Dan River in Appalachian southern Virginia. When Shanti closes her eyes to picture the house, the first image that comes to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “It’s way easier to get drugs than a good greasy bean,” Travis Milton said, taking a deep drag on his cigarette. And that causes the chef a lot of headaches.

A traditional recipe can vary greatly from one part of the South to another. In a recent article about green beans, a recipe for leather britches was inaccurate, according to several readers. The way ...

From top: hominy porridge with creasy greens and fatback by Asheville, N.C., chef Matt Dawes; Elliott Moss' smoked and cured pork tenderloin with leather britches and pickled ramps; sorghum bread.

“It’s way easier to get drugs than a good greasy bean,” Travis Milton says. And that causes the chef a lot of headaches. For one, greasies are his favorite beans, whether you cook them old-school, ...