Garden & Gun

Celebrating the best of Southern culture, music, food, style, travel, art, literature, and the sporting life. Plus, lots of good dogs.

Bermuda’s Most Stylish Hotels

Corey Alston • PRESERVING GULLAH CULTURE IN CHARLESTON

Design Notes • Garden & Gun style director Haskell Harris breaks down the transformation of the magazine’s historic Cigar Factory office space

Biscuits 101 • A NEWBIE TAKES ON A SOUTHERN KITCHEN STAPLE

Kicking Plastic

The Home Stretch • Experience Louisiana homes and history on a trip along the Great River Road

CONTRIBUTORS

“While and grappa Italian are wine compare great, they to just our can’t Southern bourbon”

Social Chatter • GARDENANDGUN.COM AND BEYOND

Sky’s the Limit • SINGER-SONGWRITER AND TEXAS NATIVE MAREN MORRIS ON HER NEW ALBUM, HER HONKY-TONK EDUCATION, AND WHY SHE WON’T BE CONSTRAINED

Blast from the Past • ARE PAPER SHOTGUN SHELLS RIPE FOR A REVIVAL?

Boxwood Blues • A VIRGINIA NURSERY FIGHTS BACK AGAINST A BLIGHT WIPING OUT ONE OF THE SOUTH’S MOST BELOVED PLANTS

History Repeats • AN ICONIC LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT’S SOUTHERN TREK, REVISITED

Sass, Line, and Sinker • Essays by G&G writers span funny bones and fly reels

Lightness of Being • A CHILDHOOD SPLIT BETWEEN INDIA AND NEW ORLEANS INSPIRED TRISHALA BHANSALI’S NEW LINE OF GAUZY ESSENTIALS

Kentucky Trifecta • BOURBON WARS, DERBY NERVES, AND BLUEGRASS SHADE

SOUTHERN FOCUS

MARKET STREET JULEP • Jeremy Salmon of Louisville shares his spin on the classic mint julep

About the bartender: Jeremy Salmon

Ready to Roll • THE RIGHT BAKING GOODS—FROM MEASURING CUPS TO MIXING BOWLS—WILL DO A BATCH OF BISCUITS PROUD, EVERY TIME

Open Invitation • A SWIM IN CUMIN-SPICED SOFRITO AND A STEAM IN VERMOUTH-SCENTED BROTH GIVE THESE CLAMS A KICK

MEET THE CHEF: DANIEL CHANCE

Pit Boss • NORTH CAROLINA BARBECUE BARON SAM JONES ON KEEPING FAITH WITH TRADITION—AND BREAKING IT

A Better Bitter • TRADITIONAL ITALIAN AMARO TAKES A TURN SOUTH

How Sweet It Is • FRIED, GRILLED, OR PLATED RAW, GEORGIA’S FAMED VIDALIA ONIONS ARE SPRINGTIME MVPs

Highway Legacy • GULF SEAFOOD, COMEBACK SAUCE, AND THE LASTING ALLURE OF A JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, INSTITUTION

Good Greek • A new Jackson spot’s Mediterranean mix

Lilies with a Legacy • A HUMBLE SOUTHERN BULB FINDS NEW RESPECT, THANKS TO A CAROLINA PLANTSMAN

THE GARDEN & GUN GUIDE TO MintJulepMonth® • APRIL 4–MAY 4

DARLIN KULLA • Succotash Washington, D.C.

GROW YOUR OWN GARNISH • Your garden-fresh house julep starts with this sheet of seed paper, a small pot, and a sunny windowsill.

JAYCE M C  CONNELL • Edmund’s Oast Charleston, SC

KRISTINA MAGRO • Sportsman’s Club Chicago, IL

ALEX NEGRANZA • Tongue-Cut Sparrow Houston, TX

House Specials • FIVE OUTSTANDING DECOR ELEMENTS WITH A SOUTHERN PEDIGREE

Cutting a Fine Figure • THE LEGACY OF SILHOUETTE ARTIST CAREW RICE LIVES ON AT THE HOME OF A LOWCOUNTRY CLOTHIER

MAKE YOURSELF A HOME • Build the Carolina mountains retreat you’ve always wanted—sans headaches or compromise—by choosing The Cliffs Preferred Builder Program.

Four-Star Canine • A MARINE’S ACCOUNT OF THE BEST GIFT A DOG COULD HAVE GIVEN HIM

All Praise Willie • A DISPATCH FROM A MUSIC-FILLED NIGHT IN NASHVILLE WITH MAMA

PRIDE OF PLACE • THREE DREAM HOMES THAT CELEBRATE THEIR SOUTHERN SETTINGS: A CREATIVE NEW ORLEANS HOUSE, A RUSTIC BLACKBERRY FARM RETREAT, AND A HISTORIC CHARLESTON DOUBLE

LET THERE BE LIGHT • A NEW...