Photos and recipes submitted by KAREN DILL
Grilled Ramp Soup
½ cup vegetable oil
½ cup all-purpose flour
4 quarts chicken broth
2 cups heavy cream
2 Tablespoons olive oil
Emeril’s Original Essence
4 bunches fresh ramps, trimmed and large leaves removed
For garnish:
4 grilled ramps
1 Tablespoon chopped parsley
Crust bread
Combine vegetable oil and flour in a large, heavy pot or Dutch oven over medium… »
BABY STEPS
By KIMBERLY ANDERSON
Assistant Editor
Kimberly’s blog focuses on a single objective each month intended to help her and her readers take baby steps toward better living in the spirit of New Southerner. You can keep up with her progress by checking her… »
It’s with great pleasure that we nominate the following works from New Southerner for the Pushcart Prize:
“To Sing and Sing Again” by Marianne Worthington (poetry)
“The Rabbit Cage” by Matthew Haughton (poetry)
“Dictum” by Rosemary Royston (poetry)
“Blasting Zone” by G.C. Compton (poetry)
“The Heart of the Woods” by Eva Sage Gordon (nonfiction)
“We’re… »
Due to financial difficulties, we have suspended publication of New Southerner while we explore options for restructuring and relaunching operations. Please enjoy our archive of previously published material, which we will continue to make available as long as possible.
We are deeply grateful to the readers, contributors and staff of volunteers who made publication possible for… »
BOOK REVIEW
By CHRISTOPHER MARTIN
A House of Branches
Janisse Ray
Wind Publications, 2010
Upon the publication of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray’s prose testament to the rich human history and the devastated longleaf pinewoods of south Georgia, a reviewer for the New York Times declared, “the forests of the Southeast find their Rachel Carson.” A little over… »
BOOK REVIEW
By BETH BROWNE
The Hands of Strangers
Michael J. Smith
Main Street Rag, 2011
Read a great novella lately? Neither had I until someone gave me a copy of Michael F. Smith’s The Hands of Strangers. I picked it up and could not put it down. And best of all, I only had to neglect… »
By CHRISTOPHER MARTIN
Mountaintop removal is not primarily an “environmental issue,” but a moral one—a fact seldom acknowledged by those who support it. The powers that be would like the public to keep on believing that blowing up mountains is a perfectly acceptable way to get coal, and that folks who say otherwise are just left-leaning… »
