- these right here, they're called wood nettle. they've got a really nice kind of aromatic quality to them. ♪ ♪ with the pawpaws, it's better if you can kind of, like, feel them, see if they're ripe. - america's forgotten fruit: the pawpaw. forgotten when most americans stopped going to the forest for their food, but in west virginia, they were never forgotten. - so that's a pawpaw ice cream with some candied wildflowers, and then this is an old-fashioned vinegar pie. it's in a class of pies called desperation pies that try to create something like a lemon pie and you don't have lemon juice. what do you do? put some vinegar and some nutmeg together and give it that same kind of tang. - appalachia has a rich and deep culinary culture, increasingly fetishized, riffed on, appropriated for the genteel tastes of a hipster elite willing to pay big bucks for what used to be, and still is in many cases, the food of poverty. - we see that ramps are selling for $30 a pound