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Steve Russell

Steve Russell is a Garden & Gun contributing editor who also has written for Men’s Journal, Life, Rolling Stone, and Playboy. Born in Mississippi and raised in Tennessee, he resided in New Orleans and New York City before settling down in Charlottesville, Virginia, because it’s far enough south that biscuits are an expected component of a good breakfast.

Fall trees around a red-roofed inn in a mountain landscape

Travel

The peaceful Crossroads Inn has welcomed travelers for two centuries

People work to remove tree debris

hurricane helene

Amid Helene’s devastation, resilient residents are pledging to rebuild

A plane filled with boxes of supplies

hurricane helene

“We all see disasters around the world, but this I can help with”

Food & Drink

Fresh out of the oven, Anne Byrn’s 200-recipe compilation shares the stories behind the “first and finest style of baking in America”

A slice of cornbread

Recipe

Lodge’s own chef reveals the one recipe to rule them all

The door of an ABC liquor store

Drinks

Anxious moments, whiskey math, and line etiquette on the uncertain path to victory

Duke's Mayonnaise, Old Bay seasoning, White Lily Flour

Food & Drink

From okra pickles to a certain exalted mayo, are your shelves properly prepped?

A wall of cast iron pots and pans

Food & Drink

We asked three Southern chefs: If you were frying chicken on a desert island, which skillet would you want?

A neon restaurant corner with lights and tile seafood

Food & Drink

The proprietor of the lauded Elvie’s steps up to save a Mississippi seafood icon

A collage of three Eiffel Tower replicas. From left to right, they are located in Tennessee, Texas, and Arkansas.

Travel

If you can’t make it to France this summer, how about Arkansas, Tennessee, or Texas?

A plate of fried catfish

Recipe

For National Catfish Day (or any day), fry up this favorite from Nashville chef Deb Paquette

A steakhouse sets a white table with a plate of steak and sides

Food & Drink

You won’t leave hungry from these beef shrines with big personalities

A group of people pose with a medal

Food & Drink

With big wins from D.C. to New Orleans to Texas, the region’s culinary talent ate up the competition

A quarry surrounded by green life

Travel

One visit to Quarry Gardens and you’ll know this reborn, peaceful place is no longer the pits

A man on a tractor with an umbrella attached to the top driving through fields of peanut plants.

Elisha Barnes uses an old-fashioned “shocking” method to produce a sweeter flavor—and a well-nourished community

A plate of biscuits

Recipe

A recipe from the biscuit whisperer of Hattiesburg, Mississippi

A tunnel through a mountain with train tracks running into it.

Travel

This tucked-away Virginia retreat offers much more than a pretty hole in the ground

Six bottles of gin in a garden outside

Food & Drink

A suite of stellar craft spirits for when the forecast calls for something light and refreshing

Morels with scallop and ramp sauce.

Food & Drink

Eight delicious courses—and eight interesting things to know about Ian Boden’s new dining destination in Staunton

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Arts & Culture

Here’s what happens to the money