Southern Living
Below Mason-Dixon culture
Southern Living is a lifestyle magazine and cultural concept centered on the American South.
The magazine covers food, home décor, gardening, and travel with a distinctly regional sensibility.
More broadly, southern living evokes a lifestyle emphasizing hospitality, slower pace, front-porch gatherings, and comfort food: She decorated the whole house like something out of Southern Living.
The phrase can be sincere or gently ironic, depending on the speaker's relationship to southern culture.
- hospitalityGenerous treatment of guests
- yes ma'amFormal feminine affirmative
- bless your heartDisguised Southern put-down
- porchCovered entryway structure
- sweet teaChilled, sugared leaf infusion
magnolia · drawl · charm · biscuits · humidity · front porch · rocking chair · screen door · ceiling fan · front yard · genteel · pecan pie · sweet potato casserole · veranda · plantation · kudzu · fireflies · cotton
- Regional MagazinesYankee, Sunset, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago
- magazinesmagazine, issue, periodical, publication, design magazine
- Food MagazinesEpicurious, Gourmet
- Gardening Publicationsseed catalogs
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