Recipes A Classic Southern CombinationGarden & Gun Magazine - Holly RobertsMake a batch of traditional Green Tomato Marmalade and Cheese Pennies, just like they do at Western North Carolina’s John C. Campbell Folk School Nanette Davidson is up to her eyeballs in peaches, but
Alton Brown Alton Brown Premieres Even Better EatsGarden & Gun Magazine - CJ LotzAfter nearly eight years, the Food Network mega-star is bringing his Georgia-made cooking show, Good Eats, back to television Before diners regularly Instagrammed their meals and before smartphones put
Biscuits Get the Look: New Orleans Hotel StyleGarden & Gun Magazine - Haskell HarrisThese outstanding Crescent City getaway spots have style worth emulating The details make a great hotel, from the room keys to the room-service flatware to the aesthetic mood of every public space: the
Vodka A Different Kind of CatfishGarden & Gun Magazine - Caroline SandersThis effervescent vodka, lemon, and basil cocktail comes straight out of the Mississippi Delta Since the Cotton House opened in Cleveland, Mississippi, at the end of July, business has already been booming.
Mississippi New Digs in the Mississippi DeltaGarden & Gun Magazine - Caroline SandersThe brand-new Cotton House, Cleveland, Mississippi’s first boutique hotel, has all the charm and hospitality you’d expect in “the most Southern place on earth” It’s a universal irony: Sleepy little towns
Algae Bacteria-Infested Ponds Turn Deadly for DogsGarden & Gun Magazine - Caroline SandersThe recent deaths of a number of dogs around the South highlight the danger of toxic blue-green algae blooms A summer evening swim in North Carolina turned deadly last week when three dogs died after in
Warren Haynes Warren Haynes’s Music Guide to AshevilleGarden & Gun Magazine - Dacey Orr SivewrightThe prolific guitarist shares how the Southern city primed him for life onstage—and pays tribute to the local spots that keep him coming back Warren Haynes has played some of the biggest stages in the
Vanilla A Century of Leopold’s Ice CreamGarden & Gun Magazine - Caroline SandersNow here’s a real scoop: The Savannah, Georgia, staple is celebrating 100 years Don’t ignore vanilla, says the renowned Savannah ice cream maker Stratton Leopold. “I like vanilla a lot because that’s you
Mosquitoes Five Surprising Ways the Mosquito Shaped the SouthGarden & Gun Magazine - Jessica GilesA new book traces the murderous past of one of our most hated pests Drawn to bright colors, beer drinkers, deodorant, perfume, and sweat, mosquitoes are one of the South’s more unpleasant facts of life.
Taming of the Shrew Feigning a FaintGarden & Gun Magazine - Guy MartinQ: Do people still get “the vapors”? We think we might know a few of the afflicted. A: You know more than a few. The vay-pahs, as my grandmother Minnie mercilessly mocked them, embrace the very finest
Catfish Crazy for CatfishGarden & Gun Magazine - Julia ReedYears ago, sometime around the mid-1980s, the Catfish Farmers of America asked me if I’d be willing to represent them in the Mobile Mardi Gras parade, where I would ride on a float and reign as Catfish
Louisiana Meet the Couple Restoring Louisiana HistoryGarden & Gun Magazine - CJ LotzAlong Bayou Chenal, in a corner of a parish near Baton Rouge, Jack and Pat Holden tend to an unrivaled tribute to the Acadian and Creole ways of life Off a winding Louisiana road, down an allée of spindly
Mosquitoes Best New Books for August 2019Garden & Gun Magazine - CJ LotzPowerful short story collections, music memoirs, photos of enviable cabins, and probing insights into a true Southern character—the mosquito. Powerful short story collections, music memoirs, photos of
Creole Reviving a Creole CottageGarden & Gun Magazine - Jessica B. HarrisA New Orleans stylist blends history and beauty with aplomb in his colorful circa-1836 home Kerry Moody’s Creole cottage in New Orleans’ Bywater district winks at passersby from a thicket of elephant-ear-shaped
West Virginia Crowning Pepperoni Roll RoyaltyGarden & Gun Magazine - Kinsey GidickGet a true taste of Appalachia — and Italian-American history — at the Great Pepperoni Roll cookoff this weekend in Morgantown, West Virginia As Spam is to Hawaii, soft yeast rolls baked around pepperoni
Dallas, TX Hello, Dolly! Welcoming the Exclusive New G&G BootsGarden & Gun Magazine - The EditorsYou don’t have to tell sisters Lizzie Means Duplantis and Sarah Means that their cowboy boots are works of art—they live and breathe that idea every day as owners of Miron Crosby, a line of fashion-forward,
New Orleans, LA A Taste of Kentucky CajunGarden & Gun Magazine - John T. EdgeLouisville chef Paul Skulas gives the South’s best-known regional cuisine a modern helping of Bluegrass flavor My father and I worried over the cast-iron skillet, turning ash white on a gas grill licked
Atlanta, GA A Local’s Guide to the Atlanta BeltlineGarden & Gun Magazine - Dacey Orr SivewrightHow to make the most of the city’s urban greenway, including where to eat, what to see, and—yes—how to find parking Since the Atlanta Beltline opened its first two-mile stretch of greenway, the Eastside
Hurricane Harvey One of Hottest Tickets in Southern BarbecueGarden & Gun Magazine - Caroline SandersAt Houston chef Chris Shepherd’s fifth annual Southern Smoke Festival, the food is good, and the causes are even better. Tickets to the October gathering are now on sale In 2015, James Beard award-winning
New Orleans, LA Inside NOLA’s Newest Neighborhood JointGarden & Gun Magazine - Jenny AdamsGet a taste of Thalia, the new restaurant from the acclaimed duo behind Coquette There’s an affable femininity to Thalia, the new New Orleans restaurant by acclaimed chefs Kristen Essig and her husband/co-chef
Recipes Chef Kristen Essig’s Big-Batch BologneseGarden & Gun Magazine - Jenny AdamsThe house Bolognese sauce at Thalia, NOLA’s newest neighborhood joint, is an old-school, comforting recipe—as at-home on noodles as it is on nachos At Thalia, the new New Orleans restaurant from the team
Willie Nelson Hick-Hop HarmonyGarden & Gun Magazine - Roy Blount, Jr.I didn’t even know that Snoop Dogg, the rapper, and Willie Nelson, the Willie, had cut a record or two together. I knew that Willie was woke—in his song “Still Not Dead,” he sings, “I woke up still not
London Business School An English Estate with a Carolina ConnectionGarden & Gun Magazine - Mike GrudowskiAn accidental earl with a Southern legacy welcomes history-loving travelers to the English country manor he saved If you closed your eyes and tried to picture a quintessential English country manor, you’d
Farmhouses The Carbon-Steel Skillet That Has Southern Chefs Talking – Garden & GunGarden & Gun Magazine - Holly RobertsIn Charleston, two artisans forge a culinary collaboration that honors the city’s architectural past (and makes a fine pan sauce, too) “Ironwork is part of the fabric of Charleston,” says blacksmith Robert
Cheese One Weekend Only: Augusta Pimento CheeseGarden & Gun Magazine - Holly RobertsGet a taste of minor-league baseball and a Southern tradition With their upcoming name change, Augusta’s GreenJackets are the latest to go a little corny—or in this case, cheesy. This weekend only, the
Landscaping Taming a Wild Kentucky LandscapeGarden & Gun Magazine - Michael GraffA Lexington couple tap a celebrated designer to create their dream garden—and his Long before he was one of the South’s great garden designers, and before he made his name creating imaginative rooftop
Hotels Ace Atkins’s Ode to a Mobile Bay RetreatGarden & Gun Magazine - Ace AtkinsConjuring the ghosts of summers past at the storied Grand Hotel In the early 1980s, when my father announced we’d be visiting an old hotel on Mobile Bay, rather than taking our usual weeklong summer trip
West Virginia The Southern Agenda: August/September 2019Garden & Gun Magazine - Garden & GunDon’t ignore vanilla, says the renowned Savannah ice cream maker Stratton Leopold. “I like vanilla a lot because that’s how you tell quality,” he says, explaining how a plain-flavored scoop reveals much
Elvis Presley Close-Up of a Would-Be KingGarden & Gun Magazine - Amanda HeckertWhatever you do, don’t call them impersonators. The Elvis “tribute artists” who compete at the annual Big E Festival—this year’s takes place August 2 through 4 in Clayton, Georgia—don’t just slap on some
Bread Breaking Bread with Richmond’s Rising StarsGarden & Gun Magazine - Kinsey GidickSiblings Evrim and Evin Dogu, the masterminds behind wood-fired Sub Rosa Bakery, want their breads to help change the way people eat Siblings Evrim and Evin Dogu know there are easier ways to bake bread.
