The Month of Their Ripening: North Carolina Heritage Foods through the Year Eubanks, Georgann Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 262 pp. $28.00. ISBN 978-1-4696-4082-2. [Book review]

Food is always a good topic of conversation, and that informal approach is taken by Eubanks, author of three Literary Trails regional guides of North Carolina, who invites the reader to cross the state on a journey to meet individuals who raise heritage food products. She uncovers the challenges and rewards of the lifestyles they have chosen