Photography by Chia Chong
Many thanks to the warm welcome and true hospitality of Debra Ferguson and Kristan Fetwell of Hunter Cattle Company for allowing us to visit and be inspired by your rafter of American Turkeys.
Photography by Chia Chong
Many thanks to the warm welcome and true hospitality of Debra Ferguson and Kristan Fetwell of Hunter Cattle Company for allowing us to visit and be inspired by your rafter of American Turkeys.
Legs. That’s what they called her. She packed the grinder, her six kids and a bag of barley and headed for a hollow in the hills of Kentucky. Three thousand miles and no food save for some milk souring in her oft-trampled bosom. On arrival, she clamped the metal contraption to a beam that held up the dirt floor cabin, fattened the fire. Her upright children whipped the handle one by one to see who could fill a bread pan full of flour fastest. Pancakes griddled on the wood stove. Legs boiled down sorghum from the cane she had harvested in the fields. After feasting, her heavily biceped offspring hoisted themselves through the glassless windows and leapt into the woods.
Behind the scenes: The Whole Hog Cookbook
Recipe and Styling by Libbie Summers Photography by Chia Chong Somedays a girl just has to say no to meat –luckily those days don’t come often. Green Apple and Tomatillo Soup (sliced […]