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Looking Back at 2025
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A look back at fifty of our favorite shots from the pages of the magazine this year
A dozen standout dishes that rose to the top this year
Twelve articles that captured readers’ wanderlust this year
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Food & Drink
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Food & Drink
Celebrating sumptuous sandwiches and five decades of stories at a suburban Atlanta marvel
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Distilled
Tips and strategies for upping your chances of bringing home a coveted bottle
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Travel
Buckle up for a seven-day gastronomic tour of South and North Carolina
All Recipes
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Food & Drink
Cast-iron fried oysters
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Recipe
Don’t knock ’em till you try this extremely Southern snack
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Recipe
An addictive salty-sweet snack from the Peach State
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Drinks
Trade bourbon for barrel-aged tequila in a Day-of-the-Dead cocktail
G&G EVENTS
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Forth Worth, TX
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Turn it up in Texas for a night of bourbon cocktails and live music.
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Fort Worth, TX
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Celebrate Texas tradition with bourbon cocktails and a wild harvest feast.
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Round Top, TX
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G&G brings Charleston style and cocktails to Blue Hills.
Travel
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Travel
The new year will bring glamorous, cozy, and coastal getaways
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Travel
The Hable Gallery gives the dusty oil boomtown a creative boost
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Travel
The Wood Brothers store welcomes road-trippers with hot coffee, Southern treasures, rare decoys, and the swankiest bathrooms for miles
Music
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MUSIC
See the complete series of G&G’s intimate, live performances by some of our favorite artists from the South and beyond
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Music
A conversation with Scott Avett, of the North Carolina roots favorite, and Faith No More’s legendary frontman on the year’s most unexpected musical collaboration
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Music
A new book and Country Music Hall of Fame exhibition tell how a small Alabama community helped put Aretha Franklin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Willie Nelson, and other greats on the map
Arts & Culture
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Arts & Culture
Wearable works of art shimmer with millions of beads, vibrant feathers, and rich heritage
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Arts & Culture
The brand captures her hometown’s laid-back allure
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Arts & Culture
Thousands of carefully preserved flowers stage a fantastical world of color, texture, and light in an immersive installation at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida
Sporting
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Traditions
A trout fisherman discovers it’s not always conventional medicine that brings respite
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Sporting
Chasing the stars of the Southern field by land, sea, river, swamp, and farm pond
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Sporting
The Louisiana native carries on a Cajun woodworking and painting lineage
Home & Garden
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Home & Garden
Through themes, props, and unapologetic maximalism, Rebecca Gardner makes the case for keeping things interesting. Plus, her top tip for being a great guest.
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Travel
At a public garden along the South Carolina coast, there’s enchantment afoot in every season
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Home & Garden
A winning Texas abode scores with decades of family stories















































