Southerners quickly switch into hosting gear at the first sign of a wedding or a baby shower, deploying casseroles, strategizing seating charts, and polishing silverware. Funerals are no exception. In ...

Mama would have to be resuscitated if she should ever spot flip-flops at a funeral. When I attended my first Southern funeral, I was just 7 years old. The dearly departed was a distant great-aunt whom ...

I have another new cookbook to add to my collection. My sister just returned home from her vacation and brought me back a cookbook from Charleston, S.C. It is so unusual and funny I just had to share ...

Funerals generally aren’t funny. Funerals in the south, however, can be entertaining. Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, author of “Being Dead is No Excuse” and “Some Day You’ll Thank Me for This,” ...

At a springtime funeral in the rural south, the death of a loved one is as much a cause for celebration as for grieving. People don't want the funeral to go too fast... they need to sing, to hear the ...

In the South, grief comes with a casserole. Before the obituary hits the paper or the flowers are even ordered, someone’s already brought over deviled eggs. There’s a pound cake on the counter, a ...

The food people bring when life gets hard allows you to grieve and rest without the pressure of keeping up. Back in the day, ...