By Madison MaloJournalism student Susan Puckett, an Ole Miss alumna and accomplished food writer who spent 18 years at “The Atlanta Journal-Constitution”, draws her inspiration from...
By Neely Mullen Journalism student To Angie Thomas and Kiese Laymon, Mississippi isn’t just home. It’s a kind of legacy and responsibility, one they wholeheartedly choose...
Brittany Brown/Mississippi Today Marie Gaston still remembers all the food her parents cooked when she was growing up. The aromas of fried chicken, green beans, cabbage,...
Elvis Presley was born on Jan. 8, 1935, in Tupelo. The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll began his music career in 1954 at Sun Records in...
Judging the weather based on numerical temperatures is boring. Besides, if it’s 35 or 40 degrees, who can tell the difference? Southerners love a good...
As an international graduate student, Elliot Grime wanted to learn about the culture of the South and better understand the region. For the past two years,...
By Laura Wilson Special to Hottytoddy.com lwilson1@go.olemiss.edu Joseph McGill’s stated intention for his self-founded labor of love, The Slave Dwelling Project, is to “Change the narrative,...
Communication Addiction Disorder or “Talkaholism”, affects 300 million people. In a strange twist, 300 million the number of the most active Twitter accounts, and the population...
Language discrepancies naturally arise in different geographic regions, like the raging pop vs. soda debate, but the South undoubtedly takes the cake. Conversations south of the...
The magic of Southern speech is in the similes and metaphors and other allusions. These techniques are the yellow highlighter of conversation. Could one communicate without...