re: Any of you make a gumbo like this?

The white bean, sausage and turnip green stew in this month looks good.

I can't remember ever living in a home that didn't get Southern Living. Cleaning out my mothers house recently produced a dusty cardboard box in the rear of a deep dark closet filled with 70's era Southern Living, Ladies Home Journal, Life, Readers Digest and Saturday Evening Post along with a pile of Gulf Oil stock certificates. Bless her heart, a woman who as a child grew up through the depression then raised a victory garden on her farm during WWII, she was hard pressed to throw anything away. When cracking an egg say to make a cake, which were from scratch never a box, she always ran her finger through the shell to get all of the egg whites. Also in that closet was a stack of old quilts that go back to her grandmother on top of her sewing machine. She sewed everything and always wore an apron she made herself. Who sews now? My mother was Southern Living and I lost her Easter Sunday. I'll always subscribe because it will always remind me of her. I miss my mom.

Zach if you have that issue laying around read Rick Bragg on the last page. A nice Thanksgiving story and to anyone who doesn't read Rick Bragg I suggest getting the magazine if only for him or read his books. He is a great Southern writer.

I also get Garden and Gun another good rag along with Mother Earth News, Progressive Farmer and Grit. All contribute to my southern way of life, which is to say my life is getting slower as I get older and try desperately to disconnect myself from the rat race most of us are stuck in.Plus it is nice to turn a page instead of clicking on a link a few times a month.