Caroline Sanders Clements

Caroline Sanders Clements is the senior editor at Garden & Gun and oversees the magazine’s annual Made in the South Awards. Since joining G&G’s editorial team in 2017, the Athens, Georgia, native has written and edited stories about artists, architects, historians, musicians, tomato farmers, James Beard Award winners, and one mixed martial artist. She lives in North Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband, Sam, and dog, Bucket.

Food & Drink

This year’s James Beard Award Outstanding Chef adds a pizza joint, Poole’side Pies, to her North Carolina culinary empire. Come on in, the dining’s fine

Arts & Culture

Mississippi writers celebrate one of the South’s most beloved bookstores, which opens a new rare book shop this weekend

Hurricane Prep

In Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, a set of beloved goats evacuate their island home ahead of Hurricane Dorian

Food & Drink

Alexe van Beuren of B.T.C. Grocery in Water Valley, Mississippi, shares the hidden dining gems in nearby Oxford

Travel

The brand-new Cotton House, Cleveland, Mississippi’s first boutique hotel, has all the charm and hospitality you’d expect in “the most Southern place on earth”

Land & Conservation

The recent deaths of a number of dogs around the South highlight the danger of toxic blue-green algae blooms

Arts & Culture

Now here’s a real scoop: The Savannah, Georgia, staple is celebrating 100 years

Food & Drink

At Houston chef Chris Shepherd’s fifth annual Southern Smoke Festival, the food is good, and the causes are even better. Tickets to the October gathering are now on sale

Food & Drink

Tips and tales from a prize-winning backyard gardener

Gardens

A new exhibition at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., recreates some of the South’s most beloved gardens in miniature

Conservation

The number of nesting loggerheads along the Southeastern coast is projected to break records this summer. What does it mean for the threatened species?

Travel

The beloved Smoky Mountain luxury inn’s revamp comes just in time for summer

Travel

Dot Dot Dot’s Stefan Huebner picks his top spots in the Queen City

The Southern Agenda

Goings-on in the South and beyond

Travel

Nearly eight months after Hurricane Michael, Mexico Beach, Florida, slowly rebuilds

Food & Drink

The Texas-turned-South Carolina pit master on how to smoke meat like a pro

Food & Drink

The team behind Southern Soul Barbeque is opening Frosty’s, a new burger and milkshake restaurant, this June

Food & Drink

Exclusive news: Karl Worley of Biscuit Love will open ‘za, a new pizza restaurant, in Nashville this July

Food & Drink

In another watershed year at the James Beard Foundation Awards, a diverse roster of homegrown culinary talent shows the rest of the country what the future of hospitality looks like

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Music

Looking back at a Southern cultural institution