I haven’t had a chance to check this out for myself, but if you get a copy before I do, promise you will share it with me. The first issue of Garden and Gun Magazine is on the stands right now. Read what others have to say. They actually have a copy. Click on the highlighted title to check it out.
As my beloved Grandmother Katie used to say, EGAD.
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1 saya // May 7, 2007 at 12:26 am
I can imagine the magazine’s title would make it a hard sell (at first?). It appeals to an extremely specific market of which I am definitely not a member: hailing from Australia and wondering what a strange name for a night club.
2 Clyde Ussery // Nov 27, 2007 at 2:52 pm
I admit it. I was shaken to the core when I picked up the fall edition of Garden & Gun in my dentist’s waiting room. Garden & Gun? Then I noted the hansomely-turned-out couple on the cover aiming matching shotguns at some unsuspecting critter. Ah ha. A family values magazine. The family that preys together stays together.
With my white trash mindset I expect a southern magazine aout gardens to have stuff about how folks without a petunia or a pot to put it in can still grow a great border with a little sweat and topsoil. Plus a food section with recipes for crispy fried catfish and casseroles made with cream of mushroom soup.
But right there on the cover it stated that Garden & Gun was a publilcation or “21st Century Southern America.” Well there you have it. Even I know that publications must change with the times. I don’t expect to see articles on how to cope without house slaves or the wisdom of boiling your dirty clothes before beating them on a rock. That is so 19th century. But I thought my favorite southern magazine had stumbled into the 21st century when it printed a recipe for pesto made with collard greens.
As an informed (or so I thought) Southern woman, I know not to wear white shoes after Labor Day, but I didn’t know the proper attire for fishing on the Greenbrier River included a $1,075 Brusello Cucinelli sweater. Who knew? I whould have guessed maybe Fruit of the Loom sweats.
This magazine for the 21st century Soputherner is “wine, food, gardens, bikes, airplanes, fly fishing, archery and money (repeat, money) tastefully surrounded by berautiful Southern women.” Heaven forbid they should have the bad taste to surround all those goodies with a bunch of bimbos.
Praising the new publication, one reader wrote that he was an avid hunter and fly fisherman but also liked “a great bottle of wine and 700 thread-count cotton sheets” on his hunt camp bed. No Manischewitz and muslin for that good old boy.
Thanks to G&G I have been yanked into the 21st century. From now on I will devote my time trying to claw my way out of the ranks of the great unwashed and will work without ceasing to bring my mundane grits and gravy lifestyle u p to 21st Century Southern standards.
3 Garden & Gun Magazine - Blowing holes in the rose bush of logic // Nov 28, 2007 at 12:26 pm
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