Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State
Image from The Progressive farmer’s southern cookbook.
Martha’s Company Casserole from Columbus County cookbook II.
Aunt Jannie’s Company Potatoes from Count our blessings : 75 years of recipes and memories / Myers Park Presbyterian Church.
Company Chicken from Company’s coming : a recipe collection from North Carolinians who enjoy company coming.
Secret Company Soup from Out of our league.
Make-Ahead Company Breakfast from Home cookin’.
Company Pie from Carolina cooking.
“People had initially believed that axing American’s wilderness into fields had improved its climate, as summers apparently became cooler and winters less harsh.
“[North Carolinian] Hugh Williamson, for example — one of the delegates who had visited Bartram’s garden during the Constitutional Convention — had, in 1770, told the members of the American Philosophical Society that forests created an air ‘charged with a gross putrescent fluid,’ creating a desperately unhealthy atmosphere for mankind.”
— From “Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation“ by Andrea Wulf (2012)
Well into the 21st century, scientists and politicians are still debating tree pollution.