Garden & Gun

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

Well-Seasoned Memories • KNOCKING THE RUST OFF A SALVAGED DUTCH OVEN

Welcome to the Club • Meet the new executive chef at Garden & Gun’s Atlanta restaurant

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Social Chatter • GARDENANDGUN.COM AND BEYOND

Guitar Hero • AFTER A DARK PERIOD OF EXCESS AND EXHAUSTION, MARCUS KING RETURNS WITH A FURY

Showing His Metal • WHETHER EMBELLISHING A POCKETKNIFE OR A SHOTGUN, TIM GEORGE BRINGS HIS OWN STYLE TO THE ART OF ENGRAVING

Head ’Em Up • SHORTY KOGER CRAFTS CUSTOM HATS THE BYGONE COWBOY WAY

Feast for the Eyes • THE GRANDSON OF DIEGO RIVERA PAINTS HIS OWN PATH TO RENOWN

Coral Victories • SCIENTISTS ON SUMMERLAND KEY RACE TO RESTORE FLORIDA’S NEARLY EXTINCT REEFS

Blood Relations • BEVERLY LOWRY DIVES DEEP ON A MYSTERIOUS MIDCENTURY MATRICIDE

Choose Your Own Adventure • New essay collections plumb the personal for the profound

The Pound Cake Code • BAKING SECRETS, OKRA WARS, AND MEAT-AND-THREES

Shrimp with a Kick • CARIBBEAN FLAVORS MINGLE WITH A DASH OF NEW ORLEANS IN CHEF NINA COMPTON’S SAUCY SHELLFISH

Barman’s Special • TRANSFORM TOPO CHICO INTO THE HARD SELTZER OF YOUR DREAMS

Mississippi Maestro • FROM OKRA CHAAT TO TANDOORI-SPICED CATFISH, CHEF VISHWESH BHATT SHARES THE FLAVORS OF HIS SOUTHERN STORY IN I AM FROM HERE

Brine and Dine • VINEGAR AND A HIT OF SPICE TURN PICKLING CUCUMBERS INTO SANDWICH STARS

Time, Memory, and the Art of Beaten Biscuits • WITH A WRINGER WASHER, A FADED RECEIPT, AND SOME PANDEMIC INSPIRATION, A KENTUCKY POET DELVES INTO BISCUIT MAKING OF OLD

Dream Weaver • A YOUNG KENTUCKY DESIGNER PUTS A FRESH TWIST ON BASKETRY

Memory Makers • WEAR YOUR HEART BEYOND YOUR SLEEVE WITH HEIRLOOM-WORTHY JEWELRY

Shenandoah Days • THE PAST MERGES HANDSOMELY WITH THE FUTURE ON A TENNESSEE FAMILY FARM

Sniffing for Treasure • A RESCUE PUP’S NOSE FOR HISTORY HELPS A WRITER UNEARTH HIS FAMILY’S PAST

Montana Delivery • A QUEST FOR SOLACE ON THE TRAIL OF A MYTHIC AND UNFLAPPABLE MAIL CARRIER

Cuts like a Knife • WHEN IT COMES TO MY LOVE LANGUAGE, I DON’T MINCE WORDS

Appetite for TRAVEL • Soak up a NEW ORLEANS grande dame, head to a NORTHWEST ARKANSAS mezcaleria, or point the car toward a retro NORTH CAROLINA steak house: These 25 restaurants worth a trip will transport you

TASTE of the TOWN • WANT TO REALLY GET TO KNOW A CITY? BELLY UP AT A GREAT RESTAURANT

TABLE HOPPING • NEW, CLASSIC, OR SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN,TWENTY-FIVE CRAVE-WORTHY RESTAURANTS ACROSS THE SOUTH AND BEYOND TO SATISFY YOUR HUNGERLUST

The Landmark

Coastal Champion

Bourbon Surprise

The Borderless South

MAN of FIRE and STEEL • Jerry Fisk has made just about every type of knife imaginable. Now, along with passing down the skills that have made him a living legend, he’s determined to uncover the true story behind the South’s most famous blade

Gardening My Way Home • FOR DECADES, the VIRGINIA JOURNALIST BETH MACY HAS CHRONICLED SOME of the TOUGHEST TRUE STORIES in APPALACHIA. TO SEE the WORLD and HER WRITING from a NEW PERCH, SHE NEED ONLY STEP into HER YARD

A Voice for the WILD • RICHARD POWERS’s Great Smoky Mountains immersion laid the groundwork for his epic Pulitzer-winning tree novel. It also sparked a love affair between man and place that is upending Powers’s life and work

Pull Over for Produce • BRIMMING WITH JUICY PEACHES, JUST-DUG PEANUTS, AND...