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 ...

The award places Robinson among a select group of food writers whose work has made a lasting impact on American culinary ...

These two-bite wonders, from Johnson’s cookbook Between Harlem and Heaven, hail directly from the history in South Carolina and Gullah cuisine. As Johnson writes, “The Lowcountry Gullah islands ...

Emily Meggett spent decades caring for her community with her delicious, traditional Gullah Geechee food from South Carolina. She shared her... For Gullah Geechee chef Emily Meggett, cooking was about ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the kitchen with Gullah Geechee chef Gina Capers-Willis Gina Capers-Willis calls herself a Geechee Girl. Her roots come from ...

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 ...

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 ...