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Pink Stargazer lily | Photo by Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books
Pink Stargazer lily | Photo by Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books

Garden

How to Grow Lilies in Your Southern Garden

Lilies signal summer in the Southern garden. Beautiful Asiatic and Oriental lilies are easy to grow and offer dramatic colors and blooms in flower borders. These show-offs are true lilies (genus
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Garden

Plan to Plant for Pollinators in Your Garden

Bring pollinators to your garden when you grow the plants they need for shelter and food. When you plant for
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Art Travel

A Stay at the Woolworth Lofts in Selma, Alabama

When you go to Selma, my friend said, you need to stay at the Woolworth Lofts. These renovated rooms atop the old
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Art Garden Travel

Flowers, Poetry and Light at Selby Garden

I am starved for gardens and art. Two years of the homebound life has meant experiencing these worlds through screens on
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Hellebores in a garden

Garden

3 Shade-Loving Perennials in My Garden

My number one tip for gardening success is put the right plant in the right place. If you have sun, plant sun-loving
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Chocolate brownies | Photo by Lucy Mercer | A Cook and Her Books

Food

My Favorite Fudgy Brownie Recipe

I published this recipe February 5, 2010, to share the best brownie recipe I'd come across. I still make these today.
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Buildings by the Alabama river | Photo by Lucy Mercer | A Cook and Her Books

Art Travel

Walking Around Selma, Alabama

“Selma is a place where we injected something very meaningful into our democracy. We opened up the political process and
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Biscuit with ham | Photo by Lucy Mercer | A Cook and Her Books

Food Travel

Back to the Biscuit Kitchen with Chef Scott Peacock

Driving in central Alabama in October with my daughter Laura riding shotgun in the Subaru, the cosmos were in bloom and
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Cranberry sauce in jar | Photo by Lucy Mercer | A Cook and Her Books

Food

Cranberry Sauce Obsession

I'm crazy about cranberries. When the berries arrive at my local store, I buy extra so that I can make cranberry sauce
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Food

Try My Favorite Buttermilk Chess Pie Recipe

This is the most popular story on my original A Cook and Her Books blog. I wrote it up in April 2011, and 10 years
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