© 2025 NPR Illinois
The Capital's Community & News Service since 1975
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Get involved now! ProtectMyPublicMedia.org Make the call.

'Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts' tells Black Appalachian stories through food

Find recipes here.

We revisit host Celeste Headlee’s February conversation with former Kentucky Poet-Laureate Crystal Wilkinson. Wilkinson’s book “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks” is both a family memoir and a cookbook.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.