Garden & Gun

A Whole Latke Love

April McGreger, who for eleven years ran the beloved pickle and preserve business Farmer’s Daughter outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is in a mixed marriage. She was raised a Christian in Mississippi. Her husband, the illustrator Phil Blank, grew up in a Jewish family in Pennsylvania.

Anyone who has been in one of those relationships knows that cooking for two sets of holidays can bring on what McGreger calls “celebratory cooking overload.” The cultural crush can be even more difficult when a Southern cook who made

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