Garden & Gun

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

A Toast to an Old Friend • MEMORIES OF GOOD TIMES AND GREAT BLOODY MARYS

Kindred Souls • The rejuvenating powers of a scraggly mountain dog

Judy Reed’s Excellent Bloody Mary Mix

CONTRIBUTORS

LETTERS

Social Chatter

Free Spirit • IAN SOMERHALDER’S WINDING JOURNEY FROM CAJUN COWBOY TO HOLLYWOOD STAR TO BOURBON BOSS

Lobbing for Bobs • MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR WILD QUAIL HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER

Music City Marvel • FOLLOWING UP ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING DEBUTS IN YEARS, YOLA LETS IT ALL FLY ON HER SOPHOMORE ALBUM

Swampy Grooves • Maggie Rose gets down in the Shoals

New Orleans Unfiltered • A NATIVE SON’S STORY COLLECTION CONJURES THE REAL CRESCENT CITY

Woman of Her Word • A poet’s mighty memoir

A Perfect Mash-Up • A SOUTH CAROLINA DISTILLERY TEAMS UP WITH ALLAN BENTON’S ICONIC TENNESSEE SMOKEHOUSE TO CREATE A BOURBON UNLIKE ANY OTHER

Raking It In • PINE-STRAW BANDITS, BILLFISH BITES, AND TOP TAILGATES

SOUTHERN FOCUS

Juicy Secrets • THREE DELICIOUS SPINS ON WATERMELON, THE ESSENTIAL HOME BAR INGREDIENT OF THE SEASON

BLT Perfection • GETTING THE DETAILS RIGHT ADDS UP TO ONE BEAUTIFUL SANDWICH

MEET THE CHEFS: JOE AND KATY KINDRED

Ripe for Sipping • FIGS’ SUBTLE SWEETNESS AND FLAVORFUL LEAVES MAKE THEM A SUBLIME ADDITION TO SUMMER COCKTAILS

Mobile Mainstay • AROUND SINCE THE 1920S, THE DEW DROP INN STILL SLINGS GREAT DOGS, GUMBO, AND FRIED OYSTERS—WITH A SIDE OF HISTORY

Pork to Go • A Saturday stop at Saigon

A Case for Butterflies • THE EPHEMERAL BECOMES ETERNAL IN THE HANDS OF DESIGNER DAWN NAKAMURA

Harvesting History • AN 1860S DEMONSTRATION GARDEN IN ATLANTA NOURISHES THE COMMUNITY

Better by the Batch • Pretty vessels for hosting a crowd

Potent Portables • Stage a bar at home, for either inside or out

Tub of Fun • A stylish method for icing down your beverages

Drinks on the Go • Clever ways to take your picnic to the next level

The Canine Retiree • A SKITTISH STRAY BECOMES A SENIOR COMMUNITY’S PET PANDEMIC PROJECT

Naming Rites • WITH THE POWER TO CHRISTEN (EVEN A COCKTAIL) COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY

In Good SPIRITS • WHETHER YOU’RE LOOKING to SERVE STIFF PUNCH to a CROWD, FANCY UP YOUR COKE, or PLUMB the DEPTHS of an ICY-COLD MARTINI, THESE SOUTHERNERS’ ODES to THEIR GO-TO LIBATIONS WILL SURELY MAKE YOU THIRSTY. SHOWER BEER, ANYONE?

CUBA LIBRE • HOW ONE WRITER LEARNED to STOP WORRYING and LOVE the RUM and COKE

HOW TO MIX IT UP

24 HOUR PUNCH • A BOWL, a DIPPER, and a BOTTLE of BOURBON: A SPIRITED MISSISSIPPI SPIN on the CHURCH-LADY FAVORITE LIVES UP to ITS NAME

Neighborly Drinking

HOW TO MIX IT UP

SMOKED BOURBON CINNAMON GINGER TEA COCKTAIL • A CHEF and COOKBOOK AUTHOR JOINS HIS TWO FAVORITE DRINKS for THIS SOOTHING SIPPER

MARTINI • FIXED with GIN or VODKA, THIS CLASSIC COCKTAIL TETHERS a NASHVILLE NATIVE to HER LOVED ONES

HOW TO MIX IT UP

Hold the Bourbon, Heavy on the Coke

La PIÑA • A PINEAPPLE RUM INSPIRES an EXQUISITE DAIQUIRI— and REFLECTIONS on HISTORY

HOW TO MIX IT UP

The Art of the Shower Beer

LONE STAR • IN A STATE THAT PRODUCES THE NATION’S MOST ELITE HIGH SCHOOL QUARTERBACKS, ALLEYESINTEXAS THIS SEASON WILL BE ON QUINNEWERS. BUT THE SENIOR WITH THE TRADEMARK BLOND MULLET AND THE ROCKET-LAUNCHER ARM SEEMS TO BE ONE OF THE FEW NOT BUYING INTO THE HYPE

Pass The Love • Nothing says you’re thinking of someone quite like a Hand-Delivered home-cooked...