Lori Fogg is a coal miner’s daughter, born in 1960 and raised in part of Schuylkill County, PA where local food traditions were influenced by Eastern European immigrants and the Pennsylvania Dutch. She started cooking at age five with her mom and grandmother, whose recipes are among dozens posted on her website www.acoalcrackerinthekitchen.com. The website, which she started in 2010, is a celebration of the foods of her childhood living in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania. Prior to that she wrote a blog about anthracite coal miners.
Lori explains that “coalcracker” is an affectionate term for a resident of Northeastern Pennsylvania, but particularly of the anthracite coal region from Scranton to the Lehigh Valley to Schuylkill County.
Today, Lori lives in Johnstown in western PA in the bituminous coal region of Pennsylvania.

Lori is a guest in Episode 18: Cabbage.