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 ...

Much of Gullah Geechee culture is connected to the waterways and the foodways. The waterways (ocean waters surrounding the Sea Islands where Gullah Geechee people live) were pathways to freedom for ...

Gullah cook Charlotte Jenkins offers more than a taste of the cooking she learned in her mother's kitchen in her new book, "Gullah Cuisine: By Land and By Sea." Along with writer William Baldwin, ...

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. ...

Fourteen months ago, when Dr. Deirdre Grimm stepped into the role of executive director of Forsyth Farmers’ Market, one of her goals was strengthening community connections to local food, its ...

Nan Bauer News Special Writer Sallie Ann Robinson doesn't shake hands. She hugs. I almost get one when I first meet her in the kitchen at Zingerman's Roadhouse, but she and chef Alex Young are up to ...

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Gullah Connections is committed to honoring the hardworking people who are dedicating their lives to preserving the Lowcountry's Gullah Culture. One of 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 ...

It struck me that during my first meeting with Emily Meggett — a meeting in which she was supposed to be vetting me, a first-time cookbook collaborator, to essentially write her remarkable life story ...

This is an opinion commentary by arts and culture columnist Maxine L. Bryant. Much of Gullah Geechee culture is connected to the waterways and the foodways. The waterways (ocean waters surrounding the ...