The Southerner's Handbook: A Guide to Living the Good Life

by Garden & Gun

Overview

Whether you live below the Mason Dixon Line or just wish you did, The Southerner’s Handbook is your guide to living the good life. Curated by the editors of the award-winning Garden & Gun magazine, this compilation of more than 100 instructional and narrative essays offers a comprehensive tutorial to modern-day life in the South.

From Food and Drink to Sporting & Adventure; Home & Garden to Style, Arts & Culture, you'll discover essential skills and unique insight from some of the South’s finest writers, chefs, and craftsmen—including the secret to perfect biscuits, how to wear seersucker, and to the right way to fall off of a horse.

You'll also find: Roy Blount Jr. on telling a great story; Julia Reed on the secrets of throwing a great party; Jonathan Miles on drinking like a Southerner; Jack Hitt on the beauty of cooking a whole hog; John T Edge on why Southern food matters; and much more.

As flavorful, authentic, and irresistible as the land and the people who inspire it, The Southerner's Handbook is the ultimate guide to being a Southerner (no matter where you live).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062242389
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/29/2013
Series:	Garden & Gun Books , #1
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	402,096
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Garden & Gun is a national magazine that covers the best of the South, including its sporting culture, food, music, art, and literature, and its people and their ideas. The magazine has won numerous awards for journalism, design, and overall excellence, and its two previous books, The Southerner's Handbook and Good Dog, were New York Times bestsellers.

Editorial Reviews

t’s the prefect guide to bringing a little Southern charm to life wherever you go around the world.” — BBC Travel

“…a collection of essential Southern skills and smart advice that is meant to be as entertaining to read as it is useful to execute.” — Beaufort Gazette (South Carolina)

From the Publisher

t’s the prefect guide to bringing a little Southern charm to life wherever you go around the world.

BBC Travel

…a collection of essential Southern skills and smart advice that is meant to be as entertaining to read as it is useful to execute.

Beaufort Gazette (South Carolina)

As flavorful, authentic and irresistible as the land and the people who inspire it, The Southerner’s Handbook is the ultimate guide to being a Southerner (no matter where you live).

Oxford American

10/15/2013
In terms of embracing all things Southern, there's probably no better source right now than the unabashedly titled Garden & Gun (G&G) magazine. The publication has now produced this "guide to living the good life," providing 75 "instructional essays" covering subjects that include how to fry okra, how to "pull off" seersucker, and, yup, how to shoot a dove. Half of the entries are drawn from the pages of G&G, with additional original content from Southern writers including Matt and Ted Lee, Roy Blount Jr., and Daniel Wallace. VERDICT Distills the spirit, with recipes, of Southern living.

Library Journal