by Do South | Sep 1, 2023 | Issues
by Do South | Sep 1, 2023 | Featured, People
It’s one o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon when award-winning novelist Eli Cranor walks into Dog Ear Books in Russellville, Arkansas. Conjure up an image of a nose-to-the-grindstone writer, and you might imagine rounded shoulders, a gaze rising above a pair of strong...
by Do South | Aug 1, 2023 | Arts + Entertainment, Featured
You can love a place almost as well as you can love a person. Over the years, Van Buren has become that place for me. Walking down Main Street, I remember my mother taking my small hand in hers as we headed for Sterling’s 5 and Dime. There once was a store, W.B....
by Do South | Jul 1, 2023 | Featured, Food, Food + Drink
PEACH LATTICE PIE Excerpt from The Great Arkansas Pie Book by Kat Robinson Jan Simrell has been making pies for decades and is one of the most proficient piemakers I have ever met. She and her husband Ronald moved to Arkansas from Frankfort, Illinois (about 20 miles...
by Do South | Jul 1, 2023 | Featured, Food + Drink, People
On May 4, 2022, writer, cook, and food historian Kat Robinson learned that her mother’s house was on fire. Thankfully, no one was hurt, but when Kat arrived, she found what was lost. “Most of the dishes we cooked in were gone (an errant Blue Cornflower...
