S Is for Southern

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. 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