S Is for Southern
A Guide to the South, From Absinthe to Zydeco
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · October 24, 2017
From the New York Times bestselling authors at Garden & Gun comes a lively compendium of Southern tradition and contemporary culture.
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- Who it’s for
- A tidy, opinionated way to wander the South by way of culture, history, and appetite.
- Genres
- Regional Humor, Southern Cooking, Southern U.S. History
- Published
- HarperCollins, October 24, 2017
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From the New York Times bestselling authors at Garden & Gun comes a lively compendium of Southern tradition and contemporary 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 anyone in Kentucky hear you call it that.
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And while boiling blue crabs may be the norm across the Lowcountry in South Carolina and Georgia, try that in front of Marylanders and they’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 contains nearly five hundred entries spanning every letter of the alphabet, with essays from notable Southern writers including: - Roy Blount, Jr., on humidity - Frances Mayes on the magnolia - Jessica B. Harris on field peas - Rick Bragg on Harper Lee - Jon Meacham on 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 on the Delta
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A tidy, opinionated way to wander the South by way of culture, history, and appetite.
Come here for
- alphabetized Southern cross-sections
- food, history, and travel in one shelfable guide
Expect
- list-driven browsing
- reference-friendly dips and returns
Where it sits
| Southern Cooking | 53% |
|---|---|
| Southern U.S. History | 49% |
| Regional Humor | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Northwest Cooking
- Southern Cooking
- Southwestern Cooking
- Western States Cooking
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- Food Through History
- Cooking Resources
- History Resources
- Southern U.S. History
- Authors
- Editors of Garden and Gun, David DiBenedetto
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 24, 2017
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Northwest Cooking