Life lessons from my Appalachian hillbilly grandparents, my links back to Ireland and how to make a hillbilly staple. My grandparents, Rosa Dell Curry Hughes and Robert Lincoln Hughes, Sr., MoMo and ...

Scrapple is a Pennsylvania Dutch food specialty made from leftover pork scraps and broth. While some consider scrapple and panhas to be the same dish, others believe that the inclusion or exclusion of ...

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Or, if you prefer, “the Carrot Top of meat products.” “A euphoric textural playground.” “A cornmeal porridge infused with rich, piggy goodness.” Author and food writer Amy Strauss has no shortage of ...

It is Pennsylvania Dutch country’s mystery meat. Crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside, scrapple is a meaty, thrifty and filling comfort food. Love it or hate it, scrapple is a Lancaster ...

My mother, Viola Nichols, used to make this recipe when we were little. There were five of us. This recipe went a long way with five little mouths to feed. Also, my mother-in-law, Bauneta Lindley, ...

Come Thursday night, leftover turkey abounds, and you may be wondering what to do with all that bird. A quick shuffle through mid-century recipe cards on file in The Courier-Journal archives turned up ...

As the head butcher at Parts & Labor, George Marsh chops up about six pigs a week. Some of the cuts become pork chops served at Woodberry Kitchen; some become bacon for Artifact Coffee. But others — ...

Despite what the supermarket aisle may lead you to believe, there’s more to an animal than neatly wrapped styrofoam trays of meat. From tongue to tail, offal (pronounced awful) encompasses all those ...

It's not every day you come across a state where it's normal for residents to eat bricks of pork for breakfast. In Delaware, and the surrounding states, those bricks are called scrapple. With new ...

Editor's Note: This story was originally published in June 2015. Jay Smucker knows a thing or two about pork products. He grew up working in his family’s butcher shop in Manheim. Today, he manages the ...