Garden & Gun

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

Garden & Gun

A Taste for Barbecue • SAVORING THE SPREAD OF AN ICONIC SOUTHERN FOOD

How Do You Take Your Bourbon?

“Barbecue is the most terrifying thing to write about. Somebody’s going to get mad” • —Kathleen Purvis on regional barbecue’s divisive nature (see p. 87)

“All this time I have been using my tomato server for cranberry sauce”

Social Chatter • GARDENANDGUN.COM AND BEYOND

Perfect Casting • TODAY SHOW NEWS ANCHOR CRAIG MELVIN WEARS HIS SOUTHERN PRIDE ON HIS SLEEVE

British Invasion • AN ENGLISH DESIGNER LOOKS TO THE SOUTHWEST GEORGIA QUAIL SET FOR HER NEW APPAREL LINE

Appalachian Duet • SEAN BROCK’S NEW COOKBOOK AND A FOXFIRE REISSUE SING IN HARMONY

The Pull of Home • A powerful New Orleans memoir debuts

Rockin’ On • BRITTANY HOWARD, THE DYNAMIC FRONT WOMAN OF ALABAMA SHAKES, TAKES A FEARLESS LEAP ON HER SOLO DEBUT

Tennessee Titan • A Volunteer State favorite returns with a bevy of guests

Feigning a Faint • FAKE MALADIES, CUSSIN’ ADVICE, AND STORM PROTOCOL

Remaking History • CIVIL WAR–ERA LOVE LETTERS GIVE A CERAMIST’S WORK NEW LIFE

Clayton, Georgia

Holy Smoke • CELEBRATING THE DEFINING FLAVOR OF SOUTHERN FOOD IN EVERYTHING FROM COCKTAILS TO ICE CREAM

Liquid Smoke • BARBECUE MEETS ITS PERFECT MATCH IN THIS BLEND OF MEZCAL AND AMARO

Fire and Ice Cream • WITH WOOD CHIPS AND INGENUITY, A SOUTH CAROLINA CHEF PUTS A SMOKY SPIN ON A CLASSIC SUMMERTIME TREAT

MEET THE CHEF: SHAUN GARCIA

Creative Loafing • MEET THE RISING TALENTS BEHIND RICHMOND’S WOOD-FIRED SUB ROSA BAKERY

Cajun Seasoning • LOUISVILLE CHEF PAUL SKULAS GIVES THE SOUTH’S BEST-KNOWN REGIONAL CUISINE A MODERN HELPING OF KENTUCKY FLAVOR

Smoking Good • A mail-order mix for smoked cornbread

Pit Mastery • THREE FUNDAMENTALS FOR SUCCESSFUL BACKYARD SMOKING: GOOD WOOD, WELL-DESIGNED TONGS, AND A RIG YOU CAN RELY ON

Pods of Gold • MESQUITE OFFERS MORE THAN WOOD FOR THE BARBECUE PIT. IN RECENT YEARS, TEXAS CHEFS HAVE REDISCOVERED THE CULINARY MAGIC OF THE TREES’ BEANS

Kentucky Reverie • A LEXINGTON COUPLE TAP A CELEBRATED GARDEN DESIGNER TO CREATE THEIR DREAM LANDSCAPE—AND HIS

Fired Up for Fall • ESSENTIALS FOR GATHERING ROUND THE FIREPIT WITH PANACHE

Bronze Menagerie • A MARYLAND ARTIST BRINGS A LIFE IN THE FIELD TO HIS STRIKING SCULPTURES

Bywater Dream • A NEW ORLEANS STYLIST BLENDS HISTORY AND BEAUTY WITH APLOMB IN HIS COLORFUL CREOLE COTTAGE

The Next Collectible • THE FOLKS AT ROCK ISLAND AUCTION COMPANY ARE EDUCATING A NEW GENERATION ON THE BEAUTY, HISTORY, AND INVESTMENT VALUE OF ANTIQUE AND RARE FIREARMS

Name That Dog! • A TIME-TESTED, MOTHER-APPROVED, NO-FAIL METHOD FOR FIGURING OUT WHAT TO CALL A NEW PET—IN SIX EASY STEPS

Crazy for Catfish • A LOVE LETTER TO A BEWHISKERED SOUTHERN FAVORITE

BBQ Nation • AS OLD LINES of DEMARCATION CRUMBLE and REGIONAL STYLES MOVE BEYOND THEIR BORDERS, THERE’S NEVER BEEN a BETTER TIME to BE a FAN of GOOD ’CUE

Smoke SIGNALS • TAKING THE TEMPERATURE OF TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY BARBECUE

TURNING UP The Heat • A NEW GENERATION OF BARBECUE JOINTS ARE DOING RIGHT BY TRADITION—AND BLAZING NEW TRAILS

MADE WITH Love • THE VIDAL FAMILY ARE PUTTING THEIR OWN SPIN ON TEXAS BARBECUE, ONE SMOKED BRISKET TACO AT A TIME

The Dancing Skinny • SHE WAS TWO DOGS HIGH, HALF A DOG WIDE, AND THE ONLY ANIMAL TO EVER RUN AWAY WITH AN ALABAMA AUTHOR’S HEART

Louisiana TIMEPIECE • Along Bayou Chenal, in a corner of a parish near Baton...