Garden & Gun

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“I found Barbara Howar’s book when I was a teenager in the 1980s, and it spoke and sang to me”

ME AT-AND -THREE

I was so excited to read about my high school hangout, Valle’s—formerly the Italian Rebel—in Memphis (“Fork in the Road,” April/May 2021). This place holds many fond memories for me and is run by the sweetest family ever.

Laura Ruth Collierville, Tennessee

I enjoyed reading “There’s the Rub” (Books, April/May 2021). When I was in college in the early seventies in DeLand, Florida, the only place you could get anything smoked was at a little place on the outskirts of town that had a takeout window. That article got me thinking, and I can’t remember any barbecue places in Central Florida that

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