Kay K. Moss founded the Eighteenth-century Backcountry Lifeways Studies Program at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia, North Carolina, and teaches open-hearth cookery at John C. Campbell Folk School. Her previous books include Southern Folk Medicine 1750 - 1820, The Backcountry Housewife, Journey to the Piedmont Past, and Decorative Motifs from the Southern Backcountry 1750 - 1825.