This blog is the first in a summer-long series—more like a quest—for me and our Casual Living Senior Editor Jennifer Bringle. Jennifer and I share something in common: We both grew up very Southern.

Christie Vanover is the owner of Girls Can Grill, an award-winning pitmaster, cookbook author, podcast host, Vegas-based food journalist and has her own line of BBQ rubs. Christie Vanover is the owner ...

For decades, women made the baked beans and potato salads for cookouts and the men folk monopolized the grill. The statistics still remain true today, thus making "girls who grill" even more ...

Statistically, women have left the grilling to the men, but this is changing as more and more women take over the tongs. For decades, grilling was manly behavior. In many families, it was the only ...