Southern Pantry: Sunshine State Sweets
In Orlando, Florida, a town better known for its mega-resorts than its artisan foods, one husband-and-wife team is turning out tasty handcrafted marshmallows in flavors that you aren’t likely to find...
View ArticleSouthern Pantry: Sunshine State Sweets
In Orlando, Florida, a town better known for its mega-resorts than its artisan foods, one husband-and-wife team is turning out tasty handcrafted marshmallows in flavors that you aren’t likely to find...
View ArticleSouthern Pantry: Tennessee Treats
Earlier this year, Blackberry Farm began offering caramels from the Shotwell Candy Co., based across the state in Memphis. And they aren’t the only ones who have taken notice of the up-and-coming...
View ArticleCelebrating West Virginia Day
On June 20, 1863, a group of counties in northwestern Virginia officially seceded from the Old Dominion and joined the Union as the new state of West Virginia. Today, the Mountain State celebrates its...
View ArticleVideo Premiere: Marshall Chapman’s “I Don’t Want Nobody”
Spartanburg, South Carolina, native Marshall Chapman says that she might well have become a run-of-the-mill Southern debutante if her family’s maid had not taken her to see Elvis Presley in 1956. More...
View ArticleGet Sweet on Buttermilk
Diane St. Clair is not a Southerner. Her farm in Orwell, Vermont, is a long way from the Mason-Dixon line. But the author of the new Animal Farm Buttermilk Cookbook has a passion for real buttermilk...
View ArticleRemembering Elmer T. Lee
In 1949, a Kentucky native and World War II veteran named Elmer T. Lee showed up at the George T. Stagg distillery, in Frankfort, Kentucky, to ask for a job. “Son, we’re not hiring any hands today,”...
View ArticleSouthern Pantry: The Next Big Dip
Credit for introducing us to OMG! goes to the Charlotte Observer’s Kathleen Purvis. Thanks, Kathleen. ... Read more on GardenAndGun.com
View ArticlePremiere: Amanda Shires, “Wasted and Rollin’”
“A theme? I guess there’s a lot of wrecking and ruination,” says Amanda Shires, the singer-songwriter from Lubbock, Texas, whose new album, Down Fell the Doves, comes out on August 6. “When I was...
View ArticleSummer's Tastiest Salad
When chef Chris Hastings puts the tomato salad back on the menu at Birmingham, Alabama’s Hot and Hot Fish Club each year, locals take notice. “The phones start ringing off the hook. People come out of...
View ArticleA Visit to BBQui
You walk through a pair of screen doors into an airy room lined on one side by a series of infrared grills and on the other by wooden picnic tables. The smells of smoke and charred fat hang on the air...
View ArticleSouthern Pantry: Peanut Butter, Plain and Simple
South of the Mason-Dixon, peanuts are not the stale nuggets that the rest of the country buys salted and plastic-wrapped at gas stations. They are living beans picked fresh and boiled until just...
View ArticleSouthern Pantry: Mountain Mustard
With more breweries per capita than any other city in the United States, laid-back Asheville, North Carolina, is rapidly becoming the craft beer capital of the Southeast. A handful of beer-friendly...
View ArticleDream Grills
When two of the South’s most buzzed-about chefs—Atlanta’s Ford Fry and Charleston, South Carolina’s Sean Brock—began planning their new restaurants, both asked for the same thing: wood-burning grills...
View ArticleAn End-of-Summer Sipper
What would a summertime cookout be without watermelon? For many Southerners, the fruit is a seasonal staple. And now, as summer begins to fade away, the watermelon is doing the same. Some will continue...
View ArticleCountertop Classics
Don’t underestimate the power of a bowl of pinto beans and a crispy wedge of cornbread. That simple coupling fueled generations of West Virginia coal miners, including the ancestors of food writer...
View ArticleAustin's Favorite Breakfast
"I was born with a tortilla in my hand," says Mando Rayo, one of the writers behind the Austin, Texas–based blog Taco Journalism. He and fellow blogger Jarod Neece drew upon years of combined...
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A Charleston Chef Moves North
Jeremiah Langhorne made his name as the chef de cuisine at the much-lauded McCrady’s restaurant in Charleston,... Read more on GardenAndGun.com
View ArticleFirst Listen: Deer Tick’s "Mirror Walls"
In 2007, the alt-country band Deer Tick came roaring out of Providence, Rhode Island, with their debut album, War Elephant. Things have changed since then. Frontman John McCauley went through some hard...
View ArticleOktoberfest in Appalachia
In Helen, Georgia, even the fast food joints are housed in quaint, Bavarian-style cottages. Every building within the city limits holds tight to the alpine aesthetic that draws tourists from all over...
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