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For Bill Smith, the chef who has quietly kept Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s beloved Crook’s Corner at the heart of the Southern culinary universe for more than twenty years, food always revolves around family—the one he’s related to and the one he isn’t

Think the golden age of wild Southern quail hunting is gone forever? Don’t tell that to three South Carolina sportsmen who spent twenty long years transforming an old pine plantation into a wild bird haven

Because a green thumb is better than a green jacket

Cedric Smith paints himself into the nation’s canvas

Beauty and turmoil collide in the work 
of this Louisiana artist

The century-old establishment serves fried chicken that’s worth its weight in gold

How a Texan, her husband, and an adorable Goldendoodle are making a splash in California wine country

How the late Charleston artist Alice Ravenel Huger Smith’s works helped set the scene in the new film

This family recipe is just one way Christine’s Farm to Fork feeds a South Carolina community

How two Southern literary giants led a young Appalachian writer to her own voice

The Nashville-based hit songwriter talks small-town beginnings, battles with self-doubt, and the long road to her new album Starfire

The fan-favorite Labrador retriever is hard at work on his own training regimen

In the face of climate change, monoculture, and an uncertain future, a grower tries new tactics

In 1932, twenty-year-old Smith Reynolds was shot at his family’s home, and the world blamed his pregnant, Broadway-star wife. More than ninety years later, his family is ready to talk about it

A taste of summer from Chapel Hill mainstay Crook’s Corner

At 78, the oldest still-performing siren shares stories of Florida’s Weeki Wachee mermaids

An Alabama resident’s lawn-mowing initiative spreads across the world

An auction shares the fantastical retro artwork of Suzie Zuzek

The Black Belt of Alabama is known for its history, its soil, and its poverty. But it should also be known for its bird hunting

When a writer has no stories left to remember

Marty Stuart may be one of country music’s greats, but these days he’s more concerned with preserving the legends of those who came before him

Few things can match the sublime pleasure of working with a great dog in the field. But the dogs don’t usually start out great. These trainers are here to help

The prolific author speaks on growing up in the mountains, fiction’s role in society, and why biscuits are something worth celebrating

The HBO show’s scene-stealer makes all the right moves

Justin Burdett, the third chef in the lineage of the iconic Chapel Hill restaurant, discusses what’s changing, what’s not, and why simple can sometimes be better

The prolific Oxford, Mississippi, author on his two new movies, cataclysmic weather events, and being labeled Southern gothic

Rising stars—from the Gridiron to the Runway—who are shaping the South right now

Dozens of memoirs, novels, and nonfiction books that got us through a year unlike any other

The Mississippi author Michael Farris Smith shares an imaginative new take on The Great Gatsby, plus the books he’s been reading and the bourbon he’s been drinking

This spring in the Lowcountry, it’s all about Alice

An exceptional new Southern blend celebrates tastes of the Caribbean

Top cookbooks, novels, and memoirs that explored the story-filled region

Crops like Blue Ridge butternut squash support food-system resilience—and taste great too

How a Georgia couple keeps the legacy of an Athens landscape alive and blooming

Since first encountering an indigo snake as a boy, the author has been haunted by this all-but-extinct vestige of the Southern wild, once as much a part of the landscape as the longleaf pine. For fifty years he has walked the woods in search of an indigo, with an eye to the ground and, at long last, a little help from perhaps the only group in the world trying to save them

These extraordinary people left us in 2017—but not before leaving indelible marks on music, culture, sports, and more

Chefs from across the two states in Florence’s destructive path are doing what they do best—fundraise with food. Here’s how you can help, too

Browse fifty of the most captivating moments from G&G pages this year

Hit order (and preorder) for these two dozen new and forthcoming books that G&G editors and contributors are buzzing about

A simple spin on the classic G&T