Garden & Gun

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ILLUSTRATOR An avid hunter and fisherman, Frederick Stivers has spent time in the American West, the bayous around New Orleans, and the waters of South Florida, drawing inspiration from the flora, fauna, and outdoorspeople he’s encountered. In his ar

If you’ve lived around Southerners for any amount of time, you’ve probably heard this one: You find yourself in a situation where you need a blade to, say, cut a rope or slice a smoked sausage on the tailgate, so you ask, “Anyone here have a knife?”

I loved David DiBenedetto’s story on his Dutch oven recovery (Editor’s Letter, August/September 2022) and wanted to share a technique my grandmother used in South Louisiana to bring her cast iron back to life: She would make a hot fire and put the po

You may be loyal to Aunt Lucy’s mashed potatoes, but G&G has plenty of other ideas for filling your holiday table. You’ll find recipes for no-fail turkey, smoky duck and andouille gumbo, and more festive mains, sides, appetizers, cocktails, and desse

On Facebook, on Twitter, and in our Talk of the South newsletter, readers told their sweetest, silliest, and shortest dog tales. He’s my daily under-desk companion. Cassie W. She was the best girl. Greg M. Great Pyrenees is a lapdog. Joel H. Bulldog

Barbara Kingsolver, who lives in southwest Virginia, turns out both highly praised fiction—Flight Behavior, The Poisonwood Bible—and nonfiction, including the best seller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. In her new novel, Demon Copperhead (Harper), she ta

The last time we had a new novel from Cormac McCarthy, Enron and JonBenet Ramsey were in the headlines, more than a hundred thousand U.S. troops were in Iraq, the University of Alabama football team was eking out a losing season, and a hundred millio

At first, in the 1990s, a few greater white-fronted geese trickled in to Southeast Arkansas each winter, but Chase Milligan didn’t think much about it. “I was a duck hunter, like everybody else around here,” the Dumas, Arkansas, native says matter-of

Talk me through the sherries,” I say, explaining that I like the dry and nutty stuff but have never successfully navigated the thicket of amontillados and olorosos. I flirt with a Manzanilla before detouring to a white wine made from a grape used to

Regulars at Leo’s House of Thirst, a wine bar in West Asheville, drink rosé from France’s Jura region and nibble at green garlic dip on a shaded patio. Inside, beneath a timber-crossed ceiling, couples sip orange wines from Sicily and Friuli and eat

As at a modern art gallery, the polished concrete floors and bone-white walls of the downtown Birmingham shop Still Johnson purposefully keep the focus on the installations—or in this case, a stunning selection of home goods and decor from Southern m

At Georgia’s ragged edge stands a causeway made of earth piled by hand atop bricks and tires, long grown over with grass and sandspur and sea oxeye. It is a tenuous ribbon of stability cutting through mud and salt and spartina, connecting land and ri

I live in the same county in Tennessee where I grew up. If you had told this to the teenage version of myself, he would have had a panic attack. In the nineties, living in Winchester, Tennessee, the county seat of Franklin County, I felt so isolated;