Table of Contents
Foreword Roy Blount Jr. 1
Part 1 How It All Started
1 The Lady and the Doctor 9
Part 2 Fashion and Beauty
2 Clothes Encounters 15
3 Lip Service 21
4 Portrait of a Lady 26
5 A Case Study 36
6 On the Scent 40
7 Knee High 45
Part 3 People
8 Witness at the Execution 53
9 Woman of the World 68
10 Sister Act 84
11 Winning Combination 94
12 André Leon Talley's Deep Southern Roots 100
Part 4 Adventures
13 Diary of a Spa 111
14 Fountain of Youth 121
15 Accidental Africa 129
16 Our Girl in Havana 139
17 Slow Train to China 169
18 Extreme Makeover 181
Part 5 Scenes from a Life
19 Dis Engaged 195
20 The Party Line 200
21 Whose Life Is It Anyway? 206
22 The "I Don't" Honeymoon 214
Part 6 Food and Feasting
23 Southern Sideshow 219
24 Food Memories from the South (of France) 224
25 Crazy for Catfish 230
26 Secrets of a Southern Hostess 235
27 Cooking Through COVID 240
Part 7 The South
28 The Southern Name Change 247
29 Cat Tails 252
30 A Delta Housewarming 258
31 All Praise Willie Nelson 264
32 The Politics of a Summer Escape 270
33 Out to Pasture 276
34 JT in My Mind 281
35 Sheltering … at Home 287
36 My Home Is My (Animal) Kingdom 292
Index 297