It would be extremely hard nowadays to imagine a family not visiting a grocery store each week. It would be even harder to imagine having to “live off the land” today. Growing up in a large ...

Eating your greens is one thing, eating your poisonous greens is another. Filmmaker Joe York and the Southern Foodways Alliance shed light on poke sallet, a Mississippi staple in many households. Poke ...

Poke sallet has long been a staple in the Appalachian South. Also known as pokeweed, pokebush, pokeroot, it goes by the Latin name Phytolacca americana. As Southern Foodways Alliance member Joe York ...

Poke, the plant in the ’60s song “Poke Salad Annie,” is one of the unsung heroes of the American Revolution. From its berries came the writing ink of the common colonist far from sources of rare and ...

For humans, all parts of the pokeweed plant, particularly the roots, are toxic. Nevertheless, in the Appalachians and parts of the South, people traditionally cooked up young leaves and shoots, often ...

For all my born days, I have heard pastors say “Today's sermon is one that I was 'led' to preach.” I must say that I was first 'led' into the composition of this month's submission by a very special ...

Do you have 10 minutes and a hankering for fresh seafood without a costly trip to your nearest sushi joint? Then please, please make this Hawaiian poké salad. The recipe comes from chef Luis Colon of ...

Poke, the Hawaiian dish of spiced raw fish, is quickly becoming as ubiquitous as the croissant-donut hybrid, so it’s no wonder that Old Town Pasadena is home to not just one, but two poke restaurants ...

Bowls of steamed rice and ahi poke go for $8.95, up from $7.95. Salmon poke bowls are $9.95. Ditto poke salad, with mixed greens and sesame dressing. There’s also a kimchee poke bowl, for $8.95. Or, ...