That June day, my grandmother sent her soon-to-be ... the woods and along hedge rows to harvest wild things for the table: grapes for the best of tangy jelly and juice; tree mushrooms (“chicken ...

Scuppernong grapes grow primarily in North Carolina ... He even ordered a 30-gallon barrel of pure Scuppernong juice in June 1823. By the 1840s, the entire country had started to recognize ...