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Mail-Order King Cake

By Elizabeth HutchisonGood EatsFebruary 3, 2012

You don’t have to be in New Orleans to get a piece of Mardi Gras king cake. We’ve rounded up a few of our favorites available by mail. Just watch out for the plastic baby

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New release Tuesday: The best of what’s out today

By Matt HendricksonSouthern SoundsJanuary 31, 2012

Ruthie Foster Let It Burn (Blue Corn Music): Like her fellow Texan wonder Gary Clark Jr., Foster’s musical output has been all over the place—and that’s to our benefit. She’s a lauded folk musician as well as a Grammy-nominated blues artist. But on Let It Burn, Foster once again tests her comfort zone, recording the album in New Orleans with some of the Crescent City’s finest musicians, including members of the Funky Meters and saxophone wizard James Rivers William Bell.

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Countdown to Spring Music Festivals

By Matt HendricksonSouthern SoundsJanuary 27, 2012

When the weather warms, it’s festival time in the South. And while Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN is the four-day long heavyweight, there are a couple of other options if you don’t feel like camping with 80,000 of your grubbiest friends.

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Dinner Tonight: Francisco’s Tractor-Disk Wok Venison

By Jenny EverettGood EatsJanuary 27, 2012

Confession: I tolerate venison. But, if I’m being honest, I’m more intimidated than delighted to have a freezer full of it at the end of deer season. In past years, I’ve had no problem plowing through the ground meat via chili, burgers, and meat sauce. It’s the other cuts that I haven’t quite mastered. However, a couple of weeks ago, we made this Matt and Ted Lee recipe for what are essentially venison fajitas. Now I wish we had even more meat

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Behind the Shoot: Morgan Freeman

By The EditorsA Southern FocusJanuary 26, 2012

In August we sent Garden & Gun contributing photographer Jim Herrington on assignment to Morgan Freeman's farm just outside Charleston, Mississippi. Jim has shot several stories for G&G, including Justin Townes Earle, Shannon Whitworth, and Apache Relay. We knew he would come back with fantastic portraits, but one in particular caught our attention.

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