Garden & Gun

The Swizzle Inn, Bermuda’s oldest pub, is an island landmark favored by locals and visitors alike. It also happens to be the birthplace of Bermuda’s original Rum Swizzle, the deliciously potent national drink made with Gosling’s Black Seal rum, Barba

Why Charleston, South Carolina? We made a deliberate decision to start High Wire in Charleston. We wanted to be close to the coast. We also knew that this business would have a retail component—a tasting room—that would bring us face-to-face with our

Last February, Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr. was a NASCAR Cup Series rookie when he finished second in the Daytona 500, behind the wheel of Richard Petty Motorsports’ No. 43 Chevrolet Camaro, a number made iconic by “the King” himself. Wallace was not

On days when Dee White decided to go fishing, he’d get up early, an hour before the sun even thought about coming up. He’d fill his cooler with Mountain Dew, and if he remembered through the sleepy fog, grab a box of Honey Buns on his way to launch h

Farm down the road has the hairiest darn pigs, and black cattle with big white bands. Am I seeing things? Welcome to the strange cosmos of pasture ornaments. Think of this as the South’s farm equivalent of Los Angeles movie producers amassing fleets

Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Straits of Florida, the Sunshine State has 8,436 miles of coastline—more than any other state in the Lower 48. Its beaches are some of the country’s most famous and most often visited. And

Adrienne Cheatham didn’t fully understand the beauty of kimchi until she began cooking professionally. The flavorful interplay of fermented cabbage and heat did more than just teach her about Korean cooking. It shot her right back to her childhood, w

Duane Nutter may be the only chef in culinary history to appear on both Food Network’s Iron Chef and Comedy Central’s Laugh Riots (he was a semifinalist). But, then again, the man known in stand-up comedy circles as the Mad Chef is full of surprises,

Though they look like the kind of cleavers pit masters might have in their arsenals, nakiri knives are in fact designed for something quite different—cutting vegetables, especially the leafy variety. In Japanese, nakiri bocho means “knife for cutting

A few years ago, the chefs Kristen Essig and Michael Stoltzfus were touring a garden on Lummi Island in Washington State when they sampled some fresh-from-the-dirt cabbage—a tightly packed cone-shaped variety. It was so silky and sweet that it inspir

IF YOU ELECT TO SPEND YOUR Gulf Coast vacation camped out under an umbrella from sunrise to sunset, no one would blame you, especially if you find yourself along the wide snow-white ribbon of sand that runs the twenty-four miles from Destin to Fort W

A few blocks west of the downtown Swansboro, North Carolina, waterfront, off a side street that curls behind a fast-food chain, beyond a long warehouse building where he rents a work space, next to an old Chevrolet Silverado surrounded by weeds, Wyat

2 oz. London dry gin | ¾ oz. lemon juice | ¾ oz. simple syrup | 2 oz. champagne | Long lemon twist Combine gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Fill shaker with ice, cover, and shake vigorously for about 20 seconds. Strain cocktai

Something about the white stucco cottage, tucked into a forest of live oaks in the hills of West Austin, Texas, called to Guy and Meg Oliphint. The Houston couple first spotted it in 2012, when they began renting a house nearby for weekend getaways.

When I finally worked up the nerve to talk to the handsome campus photographer at my college, he dropped this smooth-as-silk pickup line: “We should, uh, walk the dog together sometime.” I’m not sure what’s more telling: that this was his strategy, o

THE SOUTHERN CRAFT-COCKTAIL RENAISSANCE IS STILL DOING BOFFO BOX OFFICE—THE SHOW’S RUN IS NOW WELL INTO ITS SECOND DECADE. BUT THE STAGE DIRECTION FOR THE CURRENT SCENE HAS SEEN A CHANGE IN PROTAGONIST: “Exit: Mixologist. Enter: Bartender.” Or, more

Opened last spring at the Battery Atlanta, in the shadow of the Braves’ new stadium, the Garden & Gun Club is our take on the perfect Southern bar. It’s intimate and full of touches Southerners will appreciate (including host stands made with Charles

It feels right. There’s no other way to describe it. It is the first morning of a three-day hunt, in the spring woods of central Alabama, and already five turkeys have gobbled and the sun hasn’t yet cracked the ridgeline. Sometimes, in the turkey woo

NO ONE IN RANKY TANKY SAW IT coming. The glowing press, the uptick of fame, the nonstop touring, the chart-topping debut album, the…expedited service at Target. ¶ “I’m not kidding,” says Quiana Parler, as she digs in to a brunch of sausage and piment

While at work on his most recent collection, One Man’s Dark, the poet Maurice Manning began to have vivid dreams. In one, he traveled to the Eastern Kentucky farm where his great-grandmother Lillian was raised. Standing in a dark barn, Manning saw su

One day in 1990, Tim Thuell, who at the time was managing a private club in Bermuda, received a call from a friend, a Bermudan hotelier named David Dodwell. Dodwell had just acquired a property on an island “so remote, so removed,” he told Thuell, ha

In 1825, when the Revolutionary War hero General Lafayette visited Savannah, the local newspaper recorded fifty-one arm-wearying toasts to him over glasses of Madeira. The brandy-fortified wine, which crossed the Atlantic from the eponymous Portugues

Pipe down!” I wanted to holler, at first. “Pipe down!” is one of those classic self-righteous exclamations, like “There must be some mistake!” or “Well, that just takes the cake!” that you secretly cherish having an excuse to come out with. On the ot