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Rick Bragg

Food & Drink

Rick Bragg’s Whiskey Blues

What does it mean when a Southern writer can’t tell the Pappy from the bad from the ugly?

Food & Drink

Rick Bragg: Eating My Words

Memories fade, but the moments breaking bread (and slurping oysters) with legendary Southern writers still fill the heart

Arts & Culture

Our Q&A with Rick Bragg Went About as You’d Expect

Over a phone call from the road, the Southern author talks his new essay collection, books that inspire him, the unhealthiest scrambled eggs in history, and his spooky Halloween plans

Travel

Old Florida Found

A lifetime of memories of shell hunting in Panama City Beach and eating stone crabs in Siesta Key keeps onetime local Rick Bragg longing to return

Arts & Culture

The Dog That Stole Rick Bragg’s Heart

She was two dogs high, half a dog wide, and the only animal to ever run away with an Alabama author’s heart

S is for Southern

Harper Lee: Meeting a Legend on a Spring Afternoon

Rick Bragg on the mystery and majesty of one of the South’s most reclusive authors

The Whole Hog Podcast

Rick Bragg Introduces Us to the Best Cook in the World—His Momma

Season 3 kicks off with the Pulitzer-Prize winning author on his new book and love of Southern food

Sporting South

The Outcast: Tales from the Worst Fisherman in the World

In a family full of fishermen, one hapless angler could hook just about anything except a fish. But that didn’t keep him from a lifetime of trying to land the big one

Celebrate the South

Savor the Bread Pudding Soufflé at Commander’s Palace

A signature New Orleans dish you can count on

Artists

Jerry Lee and Me

When the call came to write Jerry Lee Lewis’s biography, Rick Bragg knew he couldn’t say no

Sporting

Rick Bragg on Boys and Coon Dogs

For a group of young boys in the mountains, nothing beat the howl of a legendary coon dog

City Portrait

Vintage Miami

Cosmopolitan, edgy, never boring, this city has a way of sticking with you

Food & Drink

Your First Oyster

It’s usually not love at first sight, but then you understand what all the fuss is about

Adventures

Home of the Po’boy

In New Orleans, a messy sandwich is a thing of beauty