What Is Adirondack Cuisine? Inside Adirondack Appetite with Susi Gott Séguret

What does Adirondack food taste like?Chef, author, forager, and wine expert Susi Gott Séguret answers that question in Adirondack Appetite, a new cookbook featuring 150 recipes inspired by Adirondack camps, cabins, forests, farms, and family tables.In this episode of ADK Talks, discover how Indigenous traditions, French-Canadian influences, logging camps, Great Camps, wild ingredients, and modern Adirondack farmers have shaped the way people eat across Upstate New York.Whether you’re planning a campfire dinner, feeding hungry hikers at a lakeside cabin, or recreating an Adirondack vacation at home, this conversation will leave you ready to cook, explore, and taste more of the region.What you’ll hear in this episodeWhat makes Adirondack cuisine different from Southern, New England, and Appalachian cooking.The surprising foods once served in Adirondack logging camps and why those meals had to be enormous.How Great Camp elegance and rustic campfire cooking belong at the same table.Approachable Adirondack recipes, from an upgraded PB&J to shortcut camp cassoulet, sawdust pie, and sawmill gravy.Why wild mushrooms, maple syrup, local cheeses, berries, game, and farm-grown produce tell the story of the Adirondacks.The connection between food, memory, family traditions, camp songs, and a lasting sense of place.Susi’s dream July dinner beside Indian Lake, complete with lake bass, chanterelles, maple walnut ice cream, and an Adirondack sunset.Resources:The Quintessential TableAdirondack Appetite Find the Best Places to Eat in the Adirondacks Produced by NOVA