The Gambling Stick

What is The Gambling Stick? Will it inevitably lose you your spouse, partner, sanity and/or respectability? The short answer is no… unless you have addictive tendencies and a proclivity towards pork like the rest of us. The gambling stick is a old Appalachian name for a stick used to hang a pig from the limb of a tree or staked down sapling. The stick is riddled on both ends, threaded through the heels of the pig to supports its weight while being harvested. The gamble is whether or not the stick will support the weight of the pig, if not the whole thing could come crashing down on the butchers head. The Gambling Stick, unlike its namesake, won't have any risk involved. It is a tip of the hat to the men and women of Appalachia who made their living in the mountains and foothills of Tennessee. Like those before us, we want to utilize Tennessee's abundance and natural diversity to source and create food that is unique to Appalachia.