Pie Melons

Since I spend a ridiculous amount of time reflecting on the character of regional identity, as an intellectual obsession, but also think a lot about food, as a personal obsession, it is no surprise that these two preoccupations intersect and cross-pollinate. Foodways feature powerfully in the self-identification of cultural and regional identity. Recently, for instance, I talked about how German-Russians in South Dakota have deployed chislic as a cultural icon.

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Pie Melons is an episode from Plains Folk by Prairie Public Broadcasting.

This episode is 4:23 long.

This episode was published on Jan 24, 2026.

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