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“What would you recommend?” I ask Gloria, who’s tapping a pencil on the once-white laminate counter at Dave’s Carry-out in Charleston, South Carolina. She looks at me like I fell off the moon. “Shrimp,” she says. “Fried.” And jots my order on a scrap of paper though I never say a word. Shrimp it is, at Dave’s and at most establishments along South Carolina’s State Highway 17 as it skims along this porous coast of land, marsh, tidal river, and ocean....

In the late 1930s, Harland Sanders was running a gas station on Highway 25 in North Corbin, Kentucky, when he started cooking for the hungry travelers, serving up home-cooked meals on his own dining room table. Soon word got out about Sanders’s cooking and travelers looking to fill up their stomachs (as well as their gas tanks) started to flock to the little shop situated on the main road for anyone heading north-south through central Kentucky....

It’s time to call up your book club pals and get your trip to see Where the Crawdads Sing on the calendar! Advance tickets for the highly anticipated Reese Witherspoon adaptation went on sale today. The movie, which was filmed in and around New Orleans, is set to premiere in theaters on July 15 nationwide. In case you weren’t excited enough already, Fandango also shared a new clip from the movie on social media today....

Want to have a long and successful marriage in the spotlight? Whatever they’re doing, it appears that Faith Hill and Tim McGraw sure are onto something, having been married for more than 24 years. It seems that McGraw has a serious hat tip to A-lister Harrison Ford, as he recently revealed in an interview with his record label, Big Machine Label Group. “I think the best advice I heard for a long marriage is [from] Harrison Ford....

We all wish to select the perfect paint color for our homes, but despite best efforts, it often goes wrong. With thousands of options to choose from and countless digital inspiration images at our fingertips, knowing where to start and what to avoid can be challenging. Here is where professional advice can simplify the process for us all. Designers and paint color experts from top retailers offer advice on repainting the smallest rooms in your house....

Folks, what you’re about to see isn’t a modern reimagining of an Alfred Hitchcock film. It’s just Texas, well… being Texas. An incredible video of thousands—and we mean thousands—of grackles descending upon a grocery store parking lot in Houston is making the rounds on social media this week, and it’s easy to see why. The clip (below), captured by KHOU 11 reporter Brett Buffington, shows a flock of Texas’ unofficial state bird doing what they do best: perching on cars and generally causing a scene....

Family vacations to Eufaula, Alabama, are the stuff of legend. This charming town sits on the Alabama side of the Alabama-Georgia border, and if you drive about 90 miles southeast of Montgomery, you’ll reach Eufaula (and plenty of entertainment too). Overlooking picturesque Lake Eufaula, known as the “Bass Capital of the World,” this town has long been a destination for travelers seeking a serene afternoon on the water or a shop around town....

Southern gardeners love their hydrangeas. Whether big or small, pink or blue, bigleaf or panicle, there’s a hydrangea selection and style for every space. When looking forward to the next blooming season and deciding what to plant in the garden (and when!), gardeners may wonder when it is too late to grow hydrangeas in the South. Read on for the answer to that question, some guidelines for planting hydrangeas, and a few other things to remember that will help the plants establish themselves well and thrive in your garden....

We wash our sheets, comforters, duvets, and pillowcases regularly. But why not our bed pillows? We lay our heads on them night after night; we bury our faces in them when our alarms blare morning after morning. Think about all the germs our pillows accumulate over the course of a few months (or, for most of us, a few years). Our pillows collect sweat, bacteria, allergens, and dust mites. EW! Add washing your bed pillows to the top of your spring-cleaning to-do list....

Back in April, I was invited to be a guest at the Certified Angus Beef Culinary Center in Wooster, Ohio, along with a group of noted barbecue pitmasters from around the country. They called it the “Barbecue Summit”. I called it Beef Camp. We toured a cattle farm, stuffed our own custom-blend sausages, and paired up in teams to cook an elaborate beef-centric feast. But the best part was when Diana Clark, a Meat Scientist for Certified Angus Beef, took us into the “Meat Lab”—a cold, clean butchering facility—and led us through the process of breaking down six forequarters of beef, each clocking in at around 200 pounds....

Christmas looks a lot different now that we’re all grown people. For one thing, we take up more space in the living room than we did before. But it has always included things that are homemade. I had a tradition of making pj’s for the girls and matching ones for their little baby dolls, because that’s what my grandmother did for me. Sometimes, the handmade things wouldn’t go over so well, like when I would try to make Barbie clothes....

When Dr. Annie Louise Wilkerson died in 2005, she left her sprawling 157-acre property to the City of Raleigh with the condition that it become a Nature Preserve Park. Wilkerson, one of the first female physicians in the state of North Carolina, wanted Raleigh’s future generations to enjoy time in nature just as she had. Today, the Annie Louise Wilkerson, M.D. Nature Preserve Park is being managed according to her vision....

Good news, Nashville, it’s going to be easier than ever to get a honey butter chicken biscuit. Whataburger is expanding and adding nine new locations in Tennessee alone, including in Nashville. The rumors have been circulating off-and-on for years, so before getting too excited when the latest round started, The Tennessean spoke to the head honchos at Whataburger to confirm things. “It’s true,” the corporate office told The Tennessean. “Whataburger will be bringing our iconic burgers and exceptional customer service to Murfreesboro, Gallatin, and Mt....

Betty White was best known for her role on The Golden Girls where she famously played Rose Nylund, who lived in Minnesota with her husband Charlie and their five children, before retiring to Florida and moving in with Blanche, Dorothy, and Sophia. While Rose had a few boyfriends over the eight seasons of The Golden Girls, she never re-married and always spoke very fondly of Charlie. Turns out Rose’s relationship status was very similar to White’s own personal life....

Andres Jimenez has a new leash on life thanks to Canine Companions for Independence. The young man from Georgetown, Texas, is one of 89 people with disabilities across the country that was gifted a service dog by the nonprofit during the pandemic. Last week, Jimenez and his new service dog, Dewey, completed a full week of socially distanced group training along at the Canine Companions for Independence at Baylor Scott & White Health – Kinkeade Campus in Irving....

Long before she was a celebrity chef whose days involve juggling frequent Food Network appearances, four award-winning Nashville restaurants, and two breweries—not to mention a marriage and two young children—Maneet Chauhan was a wide-eyed daughter on the other side of the world, taking in everything her mother and grandmothers had to teach her. “I grew up in India, and it was a completely different social platform. Being a girl was a disadvantage there,” Maneet says....

The South has once again gotten a wallop of winter weather. Snow and ice have blanketed much of the Southern U.S. in the last few days. And while many are home enjoying their snow days, some braver folks have ventured out and about—despite the warnings of meteorologists and law enforcement alike. One such wanderer was none other than NASCAR living legend, Dale Earnhardt Jr. But even though he drives cars at 200mph plus for a living, Earnhardt still managed to fall victim to those slick roads....

When you pick up a loaf of bread at a bakery or in the bakery section of the Piggly Wiggly or Harris Teeter, frequently it will come in a paper bag. It’s a bit strange, since sandwich loaves always come in plastic bags that you can simply reseal and store. When bread comes in a paper bag, though, it means either putting it in plastic when you get home, or risk the bread going bad quickly....

Every year, you can read our Christmas tree like a big old Southern novel. It’s all about where we are from, who our people were, who we were, and who we are now. Almost every ornament tells a story. But let’s start with the tree, which is always real and always big, usually from one of those choose-and-cut tree farms in the mountains of beautiful Ashe County, North Carolina. We buy a large one for the front porch, too, illuminated by strands and strands of those old-fashioned round colored lights, which prompted a famous matriarch of the town to stop me on the street when we moved in 20 years ago and announce severely, “My deah, you should nevah use colored lights on your historic home....

If you have curly hair, you know that it can often be tricky to keep curls intact overnight. NaturallyCurly community has coined the pineapple technique to protect your curls from frizz and tangles while you sleep. To pineapple, gather hair into a high ponytail and slip a scrunchie over the base, just enough so it loosely holds hair without creating tension. Half of your curls should fall to one side and half to the other, resembling the shape of a pineapple....