Built to Survive: Kentucky Heritage Wisdom: Winter Kitchen Survival Hardcover – March 8, 2026

Winter in the hills of Eastern Kentucky has always required more than recipes — it requires resourcefulness, skill, and a kitchen that knows how to stretch what it has. Built to Survive is a heritage cookbook filled with simple meals, practical kitchen wisdom, and time-tested skills passed down through generations of Appalachian cooks. Inside these pages you will find recipes for lean times, comforting winter meals, pantry-building techniques, food preservation methods, and the kind of knowledge that keeps a family fed when the weather turns cold and uncertain. This is not just a cookbook. It is a guide to confidence in the kitchen — a reminder that good food does not require fancy ingredients or modern conveniences, only steady hands, simple supplies, and the wisdom of those who cooked before us. From cast-iron biscuits and snow-day sweets to hearty suppers and woodstove cooking, this book was built to help you feed your family, adapt to hard seasons, and carry these skills into the next generation. Come on in, take your coat off, let’s head in the kitchen and whip up something warm. Read more