Pinto beans simply seasoned with a chunk of fatback and a little salt and pepper bubbled inside a large cast-iron pot.

NPR: Beans and Cornbread: Feeding Souls a Mile Deep

Simmered all day in a cast-iron pot with a big slug of fatback, brown beans have warmed the bodies and souls of many hardworking men and women of the Appalachian coalfields.

NPR: Beans and Cornbread: Feeding Souls a Mile Deep