Sunday, April 28, 2019

testing Beehive Alchemy

This book is a continuation of Petra Ahnert's popular Beeswax Alchemy.

With this new book, readers learn about the benefits and attributes of beeswax, honey, propolis, and more alongside a full range of projects and techniques to process and harness the amazing gifts of bees. Inside, there are instructions to make hand dipped birthday candles, lip balm, the classic French dessert canele bordelais, Lithuanian honey spirits, honey butter, honey mustard, propolis salve, hair pomade and more.

Beehive Alchemy: Beehive Alchemy Projects and recipes using honey, beeswax, propolis, and pollen to make soap, candles, creams, salves, and more.
by Petra Ahnert
Quarry Books, 2018.

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Travels with Foxfire

The Foxfire oral history project delivers another compendium of the collected wisdom of artists, craftsmen, musicians, and moonshiners in Southern Appalachia. In this volume we learn the secret origins of stock car racing, the story behind the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and how to gather wild ginseng.

More than thirty essays include the recipes of an award-winning cookbook writer along with profiles of bootleggers and bear hunters, game wardens and medicine women, water dowsers, sculptors, folk singers, novelists, record collectors, and even the world’s foremost “priviologist.”

Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia
by Phil Hudgins and Jessica Phillips
University Press of Kentucky, 2018