Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gina Capers-Willis calls herself a Geechee Girl. Her roots come from Daufuskie Island, South Carolina and the Gullah islands off ...

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 ...

Jun. 9—Kevin Mitchell's path was set when he was just 6 years old, whipping up dishes in his grandmother's kitchen. By age 7, the New Jersey native knew he wanted to be a chef. "When I would spend ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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