Nestled in the blue mists of Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, the
10,000-acre bucolic refuge of Blackberry Farm houses a top-rated
small inn with one of the premier farm-to-table restaurants in the
country. This sumptuous cookbook offers a collection of recipes
that are as inspired by the traditional rustic cooking of the
mountainous south as they are by a fresh, contemporary, artistic
sensibility. Some of the dishes are robust, others are
astonishingly light, all are full of heart and surprise and flavor
-- and all are well within the reach of the home cook.
California has the French Laundry, Virginia has the Inn at Little
Washington, and Tennessee has Blackberry Farm, where the
indulgences of a luxury inn are woven together with odes to nature
-- fly-fishing, hiking, foraging, bird watching, and heirloom
gardening -- to create a new way of looking at the world, a way in
which anything seems possible.
This is particularly true at the Inn's table and in its
award-winning wine cellar. To the farm's master gardeners, food
artisans and chefs, meals are an opportunity to express not only
the earth and the culture of this remote spot, but also its spirit.
On a spring day this might mean Rye Whiskey-Cured Trout with Fresh
and Pickled Fennel, and the summer garden might inspire a Chilled
Corn Soup with Garlic Custard, a papardelle of baby carrots, or a
tomato terrine. In the cooler weather, game and traditionally
preserved food -- cider-basted venison, a shell-bean and gamebird
cassoulet, a dried apple stack cake or Bourbon Apple Fried Pies --
keep conversation in front of the fire lively. For all its
artfulness, however, Blackberry Farm's garden-to-table cooking
tends to be an ode to a well-loved cast iron skillet, a backyard
smoker or a wood-fired grill.
In the foothills, you don't eat to eat, you eat to talk, to
remember and to imagine what you will eat tomorrow. In this book,
the stories of the people who practice the traditional mountain
food arts -- the bacon man, the heirloom gardener, the cheese maker
and sausage man -- are woven together with the recipes, lore and
regional history to reflect the spirit of the cooking at Blackberry
Farm. Breathtaking photographs capture the magical world that
surrounds the table -- the hills and rushing creeks, the lights and
shadows of the forest, the moods and moments of the garden.
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