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

Whiskey Tales • UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS WITH THE SOUTH’S FAVORITE SPIRIT

CONTRIBUTORS

“I was in the parking lot in my ’72 Mercury listening to ‘Margaritaville’ one more time”

Stand-Up Gal • HOW DID THE TENNESSEE COMEDIAN LEANNE MORGAN HIT IT BIG IN HER FIFTIES? IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY

Southern Rock Rekindled • BLACKBERRY SMOKE EMBRACES THE MAGIC OF SPONTANEITY ONBE RIGHT HERE

Hot Shots • A NEW SLATE OF GUNS GIVES WOMEN A SPORTING CHANCE

A Secret Refuge for Monarchs? • BUTTERFLIES IN THE LOWCOUNTRY SPARK A STARTLING DISCOVERY

Tangling with Twain • PERCIVAL EVERETT’S MARVELOUSJAMES SHAKES UP THE AMERICAN CANON

Is It Ever Okay to Alter a Piece of Family Heirloom Jewelry?

Let the Garlic Bread Roll • NASHVILLE CHEF RYAN POLI ELEVATES THE OLD FAVORITE TO NEW SWEET-AND-SAVORY HEIGHTS

Totally Rad • THINLY SLICED AND SIMPLY DRESSED, WATERMELON RADISHES ARE A FEAST FOR THE EYES AND BELLY

The Warm and Fuzzies • GET A JUMP ON PEACH SEASON WITH THIS CHEEKY MARTINI

Fish Fry Heaven • ALONG WITH A TIME OF RESTRAINT, LENT IN NEW ORLEANS USHERS IN THE SEASON OF DIVINE FILLETS WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS

Meat Me at Mu • MOFONGUITOS, RIB EYES, AND A PARTY FOR ALL AWAIT AT A CENTRAL FLORIDA GAS STATION

The Ozarks in Technicolor • VIBRANT POTTERY THAT HAS LONG MADE COLLECTORS SLAM ON THE BRAKES

Driving Ambitions • ALL THE OLD-SCHOOL ESSENTIALS FOR A WEEKEND ROAD TRIP

French Quarter Fete • IN THIS BRIGHT AND BOISTEROUS BOURBON STREET COTTAGE, HISTORY JUST KEEPS HAPPENING

A Mix All His Own • A FRANKENMUTT PROVES THAT PERFECTION COMES FROM UNEXPECTED PLACES

Putting Up the Past • MAKING CHOWCHOW KEEPS A FARMING HERITAGE, AND A CULINARY TRADITION, ALIVE

Up Siri Creek • GUT FEELINGS VERSUS MAP APPS: AN UNPLANNED SHOWDOWN

BOURBON’S FINEST HOUR • NEW BROWN WATER BARS, INVENTIVE COCKTAILS, WHISKEY WOMEN, THE RISE OF TEXAS, AND MORE: SOAK UP THE NEW AGE OF THE SOUTH’S FAVORITE SPIRIT

POUR ONE FOR ME • LEARNING TO APPRECIATE THE TRUE JOY OF AN OLD FRIEND

BOURBON’S DANCE PARTNERS • TRY THESE INGREDIENTS FOR COCKTAILS THAT BOOGIE

TEMPLES OF WHISKEY • FROM VAST LIBRARIES TO A VINTAGE EMPORIUM, THESE RECENTLY OPENED BARS KEEP BOURBON FRONT AND CENTER

THE NEW TASTEMAKERS • SEVEN FEMALE STARS BRINGING BOURBON INTO THE FUTURE

HISTORY DISTILLED • SMOOTH AND SPICY MOMENTS IN THE RISE OF AMERICA’S NATIVE SPIRIT

UP NEXT? • IN SPITE OF—OR MAYBE BECAUSE OF—THE STATE’S CHALLENGES FOR WHISKEY MAKERS, TEXAS IS PRODUCING SOME TRULY DISTINCTIVE POURS

ALL ROADS LEAD TO BOURBON • A SPIRITED JAUNT THROUGH THE HEART OF KENTUCKY REVEALS THE STATE’S GROWING WHISKEY LANDSCAPE

Man of the Sea • After fleeing Cuba as a teenager, CHICO FERNÁNDEZ landed in Florida, where he would stumble into a trio of fishy friends, eventually quit his corporate job, and go on to change the trajectory of fly fishing

Haven in a Holler • HOW A VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN FARMSTEAD GOT REIMAGINED AS AN OASIS FOR ENTERTAINING FRIENDS AND PUTTING DOWN ROOTS

PAINTBALL’S FIRST SHOT • From the woods of New Hampshire to the Black Belt of Alabama to 112 countries across the globe, CHARLES GAINES recounts the wild, wacky, and wandering history of the survival-inspired “little game” he coinvented

Florida’s Wild Heart • ALONG THE ST. JOHNS RIVER-TO-SEA LOOP, HISTORIC TOWNS, EMERALD SPRINGS, AND CYPRESS WILDLANDS REWARD THE UNHURRIED TRAVELER

Spin City • THE LOCALS PRESS PLAY AT THIS LITTLE RECORD SHOP...