The Arkansas Delta
Kelley Lane
The Delta: rich food, even richer culture. The Mississippi River feeds and nourishes the soil of the Delta. Producing rice, corn, soybeans, peaches, pecans, and even more goodness. Home to James Beard Award-Winning barbecue and Johnny Cash's actual boyhood home. It has been the subject of many a book -- from John Grisham's A Painted House to Julia Reed's Queen of the Turtle Derby -- as well as artwork. This is the region that brought you the King Biscuit Blues Festival and juke joints. A place where time seems to have stopped, but the fields go on forever.
