When you think of “Appalachian cooking,” what comes to mind? For a lot of folks, it’s savory comfort foods like biscuits with sausage gravy, crispy fried chicken and mashed potatoes loaded with butter. But, what about folks who want that comfort food, without involving animals? Jan Brandenburg is a pharmacist and poet in Eastern Kentucky. Over the last 30 years, she’s collected and perfected recipes that take a plant-based approach to the Appalachian table. Producer Bill Lynch spoke with Brandenburg about her new book The Modern Mountain Cookbook.
WVPB Newsroom Wins Big At Virginias AP Broadcasters Awards
West Virginia Public Broadcasting took home 16 awards at the 2024 Virginias AP Broadcasters awards luncheon on April 5, 2025. (from left, back) Us & Them Producer and Host Trey Kay, Southern West Virginia Reporter Briana Heaney, News Director Eric Douglas, North Central/Education Reporter Chris Schulz and Assistant News Director Maria Young. (from left, front) West Virginia Morning/Morning Edition Host Teresa Wills, Huntington Bureau Chief Randy Yohe and Eastern Panhandle Reporter Jack Walker.Eddie Isom/West Virginia Public Broadcasting
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The winners of the 2024 Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters (VAPB) Awards were announced on April 5 at the Awards Luncheon and Annual Membership Meeting at The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. West Virginia Public Broadcasting (WVPB) Newsroom won 16 awards this year.
Thirty-four news organizations in Virginia and West Virginia submitted 611 entries into the contest, which featured news and sports stories from 2024.
The WVPB Newsroom received seven first place awards, eight second place awards, with Randy Yohe, WVPB Marshall/Huntington bureau chief, receiving The West Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award.
“I could not be prouder of the WVPB newsroom,” said WVPB Director of Broadcast Journalism, Eric Douglas. “The challenges of telling stories across the entire state are great, but the reporters turn out news stories each day that are important to our audience. And do it as well as anyone in a two-state region.”
“The journalists at West Virginia Public Broadcasting continue to tell stories that have impact on our local communities”, added WVPB Executive Director, Eddie Isom. “They keep West Virginians informed and are committed to the mission of WVPB to educate, inform and inspire.”
The VAPB also awarded a $2,000 scholarship to Claudia Di Lima, a student majoring in media and broadcast journalism at West Virginia University’s (WVU) Reed College of Media.
The VAPB is an independent association comprised of local members of The Associated Press, a not-for-profit news cooperative that represents thousands of newspapers and broadcast stations across the United States.
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The winners of the 2025 PBS KIDS Writers Contest at West Virginia Public Broadcasting (WVPB) have been announced. Eighteen stories written and illustrated by children in grades K-5 were chosen out of close to 120 entries from across the state.
Carissa Gumm, a fourth-grade teacher at Pleasant Hill Elementary in Calhoun County, earned West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s February 2025 Above and Beyond Award, which honors the excellence and creativity of Mountain State teachers.
John Quesenberry, a history and civics teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in Raleigh County, earned West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s January 2025 Above and Beyond Award, which honors the excellence and creativity of Mountain State teachers.
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