Before being celebrated in top culinary magazines or lauded in James Beard Award-winning restaurants, Lowcountry cooking was the defining cuisine of the coastal South. The city of Charleston, S.C., in ...

Historic Savannah Foundation (HSF), which is currently celebrating its 70th anniversary, will feature acclaimed ...

Kardea Brown has heard people describe her as an “old soul” for as long as she can remember. But not until she was in college at Oglethorpe University, surrounded by classmates living what seemed to ...

Every summer when we were growing up, my family made the 13-hour drive from our house in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Edisto Island, South Carolina. My parents would wake my sisters and me at four in the ...

An 89-year-old first-time cookbook author, Emily Meggett, celebrates the cuisine of South Carolina's Gullah Geechee community and its African and Southern traditions. Last year we celebrated a chef ...

EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - Lavern Meggett and her little sisters Marvette Meggett and Elizabeth Jones are finding warmth in the home-cooked recipes and memories of their late mother, Emily Meggett. ...

Gee Smalls has built a career around creating spaces rooted in love and celebration. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, and an Atlanta resident for more than 30 years, Smalls is a seasoned chef, ...

Note: Emily Meggett died Friday, Apr. 21, 2023 at age 90 after a brief illness. In tribute to her, we're again sharing our 2022 profile of this queen of Gullah Geechee cooking. Lots of home cooks ...

Emily Meggett, queen of Gullah Geechee cuisine, passed away on April 21 after a short illness, her daughter Lavern Meggett confirmed. According to The New York Times, Meggett died Friday at her home ...

Last year we celebrated a chef who got a book deal at age 89. Emily Meggett from Edisto, S.C., was a queen of Gullah Geechee cooking, and her cookbook became a bestseller. NPR culture correspondent ...