Overview :John Shelton Reed is one of today's most knowledgeable authors on the subject of barbecue. Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbec... Read More
Overview :A witty and sometimes outrageous collection of essays presenting one Southerner's viewpoint about what makes the South the South. As the Was... Read More
Overview :"If it can be said that there are many Souths," wrote W. J. Cash in The Mind of the South, "the fact remains that there is also one South."... Read More
Overview :Too often depicted as a region with a single, dominant history and a static culture, the American South actually comprises a wide range of u... Read More
Overview :John Shelton Reed's Barbecue celebrates a southern culinary tradition forged in coals and smoke. Since colonial times southerners have held ... Read More
Overview :Surveying the South collects some of John Shelton Reed's classic essays, offering an intriguing introduction to the sociology of the South f... Read More
Overview :In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorf... Read More
Overview :First published in 1972, The Enduring South challenges the conventional wisdom that economic development, urbanization, and the end of racia... Read More
Overview :Creating a sort of periodic table of the southern populace, Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy catalogs and describes the several social types--... Read More
Overview :With characteristic tongue-in-cheek wit, Reed tackles the questions, Just what is "the South" today? Where is it? Why are Southerners so dev... Read More
Overview :North Carolina is home to the longest continuous barbecue tradition on the North American mainland. Now available for the first time in pape... Read More
Overview :A thorough, compelling, and often amusing account of how the Anglo-Catholic movement in the Victorian Church of England overcame vehement op... Read More
Overview :The Kent Trilogy, consisting of Blackways of Kent (1955), Millways of Kent (1958), and the previously unpublished Townways of Kent, forms a ... Read More
Overview :The Ramos Gin Fizz was invented sometime around 1890 by Henry Charles "Carl" Ramos at his Imperial Cabinet saloon in New Orleans. It include... Read More