Helen Ellis

Food & Drink
Oh, My Pimento Cheese, to Me You Are So Wonderful!
Any way you spread it, the Southern dip appeals to the heart

Arts & Culture
Christmas at Dollywood: Over-the-Top Joy
A newbie gets the spirit of the season at Dolly Parton’s theme park

Home & Garden
Rebecca Gardner Is the South’s Doyenne of Entertaining
Step inside the tinsel-gilded, garland-bedecked, glitter-frosted, champagne-soaked gumdrop-and-marshmallow world of the Savannah merrymaking maven

Home & Garden
All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Fake Trees!
An ode to the Southern art of holiday overdecorating

In Good Spirits
24-Hour Punch
A bowl, a dipper, and a bottle of bourbon: A spirited Mississippi spin on the church-lady favorite lives up to its name

The Manual of Southern Know-How
When to Write a Thank-You Note
The wry author and Alabama native shares the Dos and Don’ts

Why We Love the Gulf
Everybody Has A Comeback Story
An annual father-daughter poker trip to a Biloxi casino captures what it means to be down but not out