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 ...

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 ...

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 (also distorted as "poke salad") is one of the first signs of spring and, as a roadside plant, it's a luxuriously inexpensive taste: "like asparagus and celery together," according to Jake ...

Poke salad comes from young pokeweed leaves, made safe to eat through careful boiling. The leaves are boiled twice, drained, and often sautéed in bacon grease. It's a traditional Southern foraged dish ...

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 ...

A beautiful plant with bright red and black berries came up in my perennial garden. A local nurseryman identified it as poke weed. He wasn't sure if it's the same plant eaten in the South called poke ...

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, ...