This year's Fall Folk Arts Festival at Exchange Place was, in my opinion, one of the best ever. The crowd was not huge, but those who came were interested and engaged and asked good questions. The Junior Apprentices made hoecakes, pounded heirloom corn, demonstrated gourd crafting, and chopped wood. Here, you can see pictures of the youngest member of the "woodchopper's" guild. Thomas particularly liked stacking wood and making a "bowl" for me with a little tomahawk.
Things went well in the kitchen too. The menu was inspired by African-American foodways, and much of the ingredients came from my own garden or the EP garden. The sweet potato biscuits were made from "Pink Bermuda" slips that the apprentices helped me plant in the spring and which came from a single sweet potato that I dug at Old Salem last fall. Everything seemed to come full circle.
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| Thomas helping Jake and Matt |
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| This is a big one! |
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| " The keys make me official" |
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| Working on Mommy's "bowl" |
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| Ingredients |
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Vegetables from the garden
(The jar contains burr gherkins, pickled according to an 18th century recipe) |
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| Okra soup, greens cooked in pork stock, and fried trout |
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| Sweet potato biscuits, fried apples, and "mule-powered" sorghum |
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