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S Is for Southern: A Guide to the South, from Absinthe to Zydeco

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From the New York Times bestselling authors at Garden & Gun comes a full of life compendium of Southern tradition and latest culture.

The American South is a diverse region with its own vocabulary, peculiarities, and complexities. Tennessee whiskey may technically be bourbon, but don’t let any person in Kentucky hear you call it that. And whilst boiling blue crabs is also the norm around the Lowcountry in South Carolina and Georgia, try that in front of Marylanders they usually’re likely to put you in the pot.

Now, from the editors of Garden & Gun comes this illustrated encyclopedia covering age-old traditions and current culture. S Is for Southern accommodates nearly five hundred entries spanning each and every letter of the alphabet, with essays from notable Southern writers including:

  • Roy Blount, Jr., on humidity
  • Frances Mayes at the magnolia
  • Jessica B. Harris on field peas
  • Rick Bragg on Harper Lee
  • Jon Meacham at the Civil War
  • Allison Glock on Dolly Parton
  • Randall Kenan on Edna Lewis
  • The Lee Brothers on boiled peanuts
  • Jonathan Miles on Larry Brown
  • Julia Reed at the Delta


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