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CJ Lotz Diego

CJ Lotz Diego is Garden & Gun’s senior editor. A staffer since 2013, she wrote G&G’s bestselling Bless Your Heart trivia game, edits the Due South travel section, and covers gardens, books, and art. Originally from Eureka, Missouri, she graduated from Indiana University and now lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where she tends a downtown pocket garden with her florist husband, Max.

Food & Drink

Celebrating twenty years of Charleston’s FIG restaurant with memories of those crazy early days—and three recipes from the vault

Arts & Culture

The author of Cold Mountain on his writing routine, North Carolina roots, and taking his characters beyond the South

Recipe

The easiest recipe from North Carolina’s Fearrington House Inn

Arts & Culture

Hosting tips—and recipes—from a North Carolinian who has made Italian beauty a lifetime love

Sporting

Historic decoys, dog paintings, a rare folk art find, and more highlights from the online Copley Winter Sale

Home & Garden

We’re crowing about these must-see coops at February’s Antiques & Garden Show

Gardens

On a Georgia island, a greenhouse reflects a lifelong passion

Arts & Culture

And see photos of that time Elvis showed up

Arts & Culture

Jerry Saltz on faking it till you make it, going down Instagram rabbit holes, and why the creativity pouring from the South is so vital

My Town

Just in time for Nashville Design Week

Arts & Culture

The mega-best-selling author dishes on his favorite cookbooks, the Mississippi haunt that started it all, and why he won’t describe his new book in one sentence

Arts & Culture

“I wish there was a way to go back and soothe the younger me,” says Natalie Chanin, whose gorgeous new book celebrates two decades of soulful Southern style

Arts & Culture

The 1898 film is quite a spectacle—and an exhibition shares more of New Orleans’s most intricate carnival designs

Arts & Culture

A fascinating new book by Annie Proulx reveals the mystery and majesty of fens, bogs, and swamps

Drinks

A New Orleans cocktail tastes like whiskey, but the starring spirit is…

Recipe

Bourbon mussels are just one of many surprising flavor combinations in Justin Sutherland’s new Southern-inspired home-cooking book

Arts & Culture

“The biggest thing that people get wrong about the South is that they think all Southern accents are the same”

Recipe

People can’t stop ordering the combo at this new restaurant on Isle of Palms, South Carolina

Arts & Culture

In her lovely new book, the best-selling author of Under the Tuscan Sun welcomes readers into both her Southern and Italian estates

Gardens

Terraces bolster a floral North Carolina paradise