Mountain Dew's Appalachian Roots. ... you see people carrying around bottles of Mountain Dew all the time — even at a public health conference," health researcher Dana Singer told NPR in 2013.

Stoll explains Appalachia’s poverty and “otherness” not as the failing of mountain people, but as a fate perpetrated on them by centuries of extractive industries and urban presumptions of ...

July 4, 2025 Mental Health Crisis Response And Mountain Valley Pipeline, Inside Appalachia. July 4, 2025 • People with mental health challenges or substance use disorder often end up in jail ...

Appalachia on the Table argues, in part, that since the conception of Appalachia as a distinctly different region from the rest of the South and United States, the foods associated with the region and ...

And many people believe the high rate of mysterious phenomena in the Appalachian Mountains, a 2,000-mile range that spans Newfoundland to northern Alabama, is due to their geological age. How old ...

CAPTURING HISTORY: Photographer Chris Aluka Berry spent six years documenting the lives of Black people in Appalachia. Photo courtesy of Berry A native of St. Matthews, S.C., Chris Aluka Berry ...

Chef Ashleigh Shanti, along with 12 other “Top Chef” alumni, received coveted recognition from the James Beard Foundation last week. Shanti was nominated for Best Chef: Southeast — which ...

In her new book 'Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People,' Erica Abrams Locklear explores how literary representations of Appalachian food have colored our view of the ...

More than three dozen people are confirmed dead, with hundreds more missing. ... That’s a concern, given the number of communities nestled in Appalachia’s strip-mined mountains.