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Modern mountain meals: Eastern Kentucky native reimagines Appalachian recipes

After nearly 40 years as a practicing pharmacist, Jan Brandenburg has published The Modern Mountain Cookbook: A Plant-Based Celebration of Appalachia, Photos provided.

A native of Irvine, Kentucky, Jan Brandenburg grew up surrounded by family recipes, handwritten notes and the scent of Appalachian staples simmering on the stove. Her paternal grandmother helped run two small restaurants in Somerset, where Brandenburg worked weekends during high school and throughout pharmacy school. Those early kitchen memories laid the groundwork for what would later become a deep passion for cooking — and reimagining — traditional regional dishes.

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