Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread, and Scuppernong Wine

"To be sure, this is a cookbook, and most of the talk is about food - or over it, at the table - but it is much more than that. It's about Georgia hill-country characters like Thee King, Simmie Free, and Nina Garrett. This book is also about hog-killing and smokehouses, about making lye hominy and gathering wild greens, about ramps and cushaws and leather-britches, about cracklin' bread and corn-cob jelly, whistle pig and poke sallet, apple butter and stack cakes." - John Egerton