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"Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes" is a 2016 cookbook by Ronni Lundy that examines the culinary history of the Appalachian region in the eastern United States. The book received a James Beard Award for American Cooking, reflecting its thorough documentation of mountain foodways. Lundy...
The Ocoee Salamander (Desmognathus ocoee) is a southern Appalachian lungless salamander named for the Ocoee River watershed, abundant in seeps and rocky streams of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia.
Metcalf's salamander (Plethodon metcalfi) is a lungless salamander in the family Plethodontidae that is endemic to the southern Blue Ridge Mountains. Found primarily in the Appalachian forests of North Carolina and adjacent states, it is a terrestrial amphibian that breathes through its moist skin....
The Seepage Salamander (Desmognathus aeneus) is one of the smallest desmognathine salamanders, inhabiting thin-film seeps and wet leaf litter in the southern Appalachian Mountains of Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee.
