Julia reed

Julia Reed and her beagle, Henry. The regal English oil painting of a cricket player above Julia’s sofa hung in the Nashville home of her great-grandmother “forever, and I don’t think anybody ever paid attention to it, and I always lucky enough to have the highest ceilings, so it got passed to me,” she says. “I can’t imagine what possessed her to buy that—it’s certainly not an ancestor—but I’m happy to have it.” Photo by Lesley Unruh. From onekingslane.com.

The great Southern writer died recently, but her love for the holidays, like her life, was over-the-top. Here's how she decorated her home at Christmas.

Keith Smythe Meacham and the late Julia Reed’s charming boutique sets up shop in West Nashville

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I'm from Seattle, and to chart the farthest I've ventured into the southern states I could draw an arc from Santa Fe through Kansas City and on to Raleigh,

The great Southern writer died recently, but her love for the holidays, like her life, was over-the-top. Here's how she decorated her home at Christmas.

Warm Cheese Box Bites combine the comfort of warm cheese toast with the elegance of tiny cheese soufflés. They make a great snack or savory appetizer that doesn't require a plate.

One of the absolute highlights of my recent attendance at the Southern Food Writing Conference was getting the chance to hear Julia Reed speak. A published author plus contributing editor at Vogue and Newsweek, Reed is one of my favorite southern writers, but she was even better in real life! Her southern grand dame persona was warm and inviting...Reed's rubbed elbows with the likes of politicos, fashionistas, and the Washington D.C. & New York elite but she doesn't seem to care about any of…

Julia Reed, author of the new book, 'But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria: Adventures in Eating, Drinking and Making Merry,' is one of those talented people who can pull four random ingredients out of her fridge and transform them into a memorable, impromptu, sit-down dinner party. (It helps to have good Champagne on hand.) Here, she gives away a few of her secrets.