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Posted on May 13, 2020December 3, 2019

Lay Those Coke Bottles Down.

Irondale Cafe, Irondale AL

Irondale Cafe
Irondale AL, 2017.

Posted on May 11, 2020December 3, 2019

Scottsboro’s Shtreimel.

Shtreimel, Unclaimed Baggage Store, Scottsboro AL

Shtreimel
Unclaimed Baggage Store
Scottsboro AL, 2017.

Posted on May 10, 2020December 18, 2019

Sticky Endorsements

Red Iguana, Salt Lake City UT

Red Iguana
(btw, that’s fab Mexican)
Salt Lake City UT, 2017.

Posted on May 6, 2020December 3, 2019

Always Stand for an Open Ark.

Gemiluth Chassed, Port Gibson MS

Gemilluth Chassed
Synagogue built 1892
Port Gibson MS, 2016.

Posted on May 4, 2020December 3, 2019

Neon Steak.

Pell City Steak House, Pell City AL

Pell City Steakhouse
Pell City AL, 2017.

Posted on May 3, 2020January 5, 2020

Looking Up.

JFK Library, Boston MA

JFK Library
Boston MA, 2017.

Posted on April 29, 2020December 3, 2019

Bottle Wall.

Perry's Steakhouse, Birmingham AL

Perry’s
Birmingham AL, 2017.

Posted on April 27, 2020December 3, 2019

Lettering.

Bon Ton Hatters Shoe Repair Shoe Shine Since 1907, Birmingham AL

Bon Ton Hatters — Shoe Shine, Shoe Repair Since 1907.
No longer in business.
Birmingham AL, 2017.

Posted on April 26, 2020January 5, 2020

Open.

Sault New England, Boston MA

Sault New England
Boston MA, 2017.

Posted on April 22, 2020December 3, 2019

Window Orchids.

Highlands Bar and Grill, Birmingham AL

Window, Highlands Bar & Grill
Birmingham AL, 2017.

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About

Hi – I’m Ginger. I document vernacular and visionary art and art environments, and study Southern folkways. Besides those things, I like to share recipes and visits to fab restaurants and hotels here.

I am married to the best person I’ve ever known, and we are just smitten with our two sons who are just 15 months apart.

My ‘real job’ is Creative Director at a magazine which is crazy fun.

We split our time between Birmingham and New Orleans though call anywhere we are ‘home’. I grew up a small-town girl and am the 7th generation of my family born in Alabama.

I try to be a curator of kindness, goodness, and interesting experiences.

And I’m so happy you’re here.
You can email me at:
ginger [at] deepfriedkudzu (dot) com

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Being Published


I am grateful that my images, written work, and creative concepts have been published, and serve as a source/consultant on Southern folklife and foodways. I can be reached here.

Here are some of the projects I've been honored to be a part of:

The cover of Juke Joint Soul CD -- Courthouse protest in Harvard College Economics Review -- Katrina pics in Louisiana PBS documentary, Surviving the Storm -- Boll Weevil Monument pic in the French Journal Insectes

Bryant Store pic in the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, magazine OnStage -- Various pics, Encyclopedia of Alabama -- Several pics of Joe Minter's art environment for exhibit including him at Vulcan Park and Museum -- Organizing feature at Apartment Therapy -- Montreal's Gibeau Orange Julep in Food: Alphabet City Magazine 12 -- Doe's Eat Place tamales image at Gourmet.com

Causeyville General Store pic used in web interactive game 'Adventure A-Go-Go' for Starwood Hotel's Aloft brand Hotels -- Monroeville Courthouse / Mockingbird pics in Good Reading Magazine -- Pensacola Futuro house pic at New York Daily News -- Benjamin Butler pot in the National Park Service's literature at Lowell National Historic Park -- Moundville pics in educational film on indigenous people by University of Chile

Slugburger at SeriousEats -- Mississippi Amish community in Jackson Free Press -- Oxford Mound for the Institute of Southern Studies -- Indian mound pics used in the movie The New Daughter -- Gift wrap station idea produced for Lowe's Creative Ideas Magazine -- Snowman cutout for yard fun idea produced for Lowe's Creative Ideas Magazine -- Star of David idea produced for Lowe's Creative Ideas Magazine -- Dreidel pad game idea produced for Lowe's Creative Ideas Magazine

Several pics in the book Alabama's Civil Rights Trail: An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom -- Contributor, Best Road Trip Ever! iPhone App -- Howard Finster image in Glorious Constructions: The Struggle to Preserve Salvation-Themed Visionary Art Environments -- Peaches Cafe pic for Barefoot Workshops Documentary -- Poster in Crit Architecture Journal

Consultant on MS Culinary Trail for MS Tourism -- Stone bath mat idea produced for Lowe's Creative Ideas Magazine -- W.C. Rice's Cross Garden image at Art21

Feature about DFK and making Easter baskets for children in homeless shelters, with a tutorial on naturally-dyed eggs, for the Publix Supermarket FamilyStyle magazine -- Interview with me about DFK and travel in Alabama on the arts program, Tapestry, on the Bham public radio station, WBHM

Pic of American Village sounding board for Society of Colonial Wars book -- Adjudicated grant applications for folk art fellowship, apprenticeship and roster for the Mississippi Arts Commission -- Koolickle for FoodandWine.com -- Vincent Oliver's Hippodrome for Black & White

Gee's Bend Quilt Mural for Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement book -- Koolickle image at the BBC -- 'I Heart Alabama Gulf Seafood' feature for Alabama Gulf Seafood promotion -- Feature article about Deep Fried Kudzu in Sunday Anniston Star: Deep Fried Kudzu is Alabama Blogger's Love Letter to the South

Koolickle image for Scholastic's Action Magazine -- Source for 'Legends, Lore, and True Tales of the Chattahoochee' -- Speaker, Alabama Community Scholars Institute, Alabama Folklife Association

Quoted, images for Yahoo! Shine feature on slugburgers -- Consulted, Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods America for Birmingham episode -- Mound image for Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective -- Hystercine Rankin quilt image at Converge Magazine -- Museum image for 2nd ed Eat Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Unique Food Culture of the Crescent City

Images of Wade Wharton's Art Environment for SPACES -- Rockower Award, Cover Design -- Images of Old Cahawba for Alabama Magazine -- Simmons-Wright Country Store image for Atlanta Magazine's Southbound -- Green Warehouse pic in William Christenberry piece, Medium Vantage

Roadside Religious Signs for Okra Magazine -- Tom Hendrix Wichahpi Commemorative Stone Wall at Atlas Obscura -- Various, al.com -- Joe Minter's African Village in America image for Atlanta Magazine's Southbound -- Various, Birmingham Wiki -- Photo for Anne LeBaron CD booklet -- Coal Service Station in Business Alabama -- Nelle Harper Lee pic in TKAM piece in the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences Journal of Literary History

Recipes


All the recipes are at this page.
Here are the 25 most popular:

Pralines
Lemon Bars
Watermelon Rind Pickles
Sage Chicken and Sausage
Strawberry Pretzel Salad
Creole Cream Cheese Cheesecake
Comeback Sauce
Caper and Garlic Rack of Lamb
Pan-Fried Duck with Muscadine Sauce
White Chocolate Bread Pudding
Homemade Creole Cream Cheese
Liver With Hot Pepper Jelly Appetizers
Fantail Rolls
Pot Likker Matzoh Balls
Hummingbird Cake
Alabama Caviar
Glorious Fruitcake
Original Lane Cake
Tomato Pie
Southern Sufganiyot
Fork & Plate Fried Pies
Fried Matzah Balls
Passover Baby Bites
Fraisier
Espresso Sorbet

Let’s Eat


Favorite Restaurants:
1. Commander's Palace, New Orleans LA
2. Arnaud's, New Orleans LA
3. Antoine's, New Orleans LA
4. Doe's Eat Place, Greenville MS
5. Coquette, New Orleans LA
6. Chez Fonfon, Birmingham AL
7. Taylor Grocery, Taylor MS
8. Ninfa's on Navigation, Houston TX
9. Lusco's, Greenwood MS
10. The Dinner Bell, McComb MS

Let’s Stay A While


Favorite Hotels:
1. Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans
2. Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas
3. Mansion on Forsyth Park, Savannah
4. 21C Museum Hotel, Bentonville
5. The Driskill, Austin

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