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Food & drink
Sweet Tea Porch Punch, from the Field Guide of the AZALEA Fall 2026 issue

Sweet Tea Porch Punch

A sweet tea bourbon punch with sorghum and cider, for the first cool evening and everybody who shows up for it.

Roasted muscadines over whipped goat cheese with crostini

The Grape of the South

Three muscadine recipes for the sweetest weeks of a Lowcountry fall: a hull pie, roasted muscadines over whipped goat cheese, and a cardamom-scented jam.

Art & Style
Erin Carlson’s gathered fall table: vintage china on plaid chargers with amber glass and fresh flowers

The Gathered Table

Designer Erin Carlson sets a fall table the way she does everything else: one loved thing at a time, the very old right beside the very new.

Open house
Erin Carlson’s gathered fall table: vintage china on plaid chargers with amber glass and fresh flowers

The Gathered Table

Designer Erin Carlson sets a fall table the way she does everything else: one loved thing at a time, the very old right beside the very new.

Erin Carlson at the island in the kitchen of her 1880 Summerville home

Found

Erin Carlson is making a quiet case that the best rooms aren’t decorated at all. They’re gathered — one treasure at a time.

Outdoor living
A trail horse at the Middleton Place Equestrian Center barn

Riding the Ashley

At Middleton Place Equestrian Center, horses and riders hit the trail — and somewhere along the hour, something changes.