Charleston’s Only Chef-Led Culinary & History Tour
Walk the French Quarter. Learn from a chef. Taste history.
Master the "Velvet Season" with Chef Forrest Parker. This guide marries Gullah Geechee "deb’l" stuffing with the Edisto Motel’s "shatter-crunch." Learn the professional secrets to stuffing and sautéing Charleston’s most fleeting seasonal prize.
In the humid, salt-crusted twilight of 1970s Charleston, Chef Serge Claire understood a fundamental truth: the most beautiful things are built on ruins. At 235 Meeting Street, he transformed a derelict shell into Restaurant Marianne—one of the most important French kitchens in Charleston history—and in doing so, gave the city a dish that still echoes …
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A French Quarter Culinary Tradition, adapted by Chef Forrest Parker The Pompano: A Coastal Inheritance There is a silver-scaled elegance to the Pompano that demands reverence—a quiet, salt-licked alchemy of the South Carolina Lowcountry. This buttery marriage of delicate fish and briny crabmeat stuffing carries the same DNA of refinement we explored in our historical …
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By Forrest Parker Vintage postcard displaying World Famous Perdita's, inside and out. This historic gratin served as the calling card for Perdita’s, the midcentury Charleston landmark at 10 Exchange St. that once shared a pedigree with the finest dining rooms in Paris. Unlike its more modern, heavy-handed cousins, this Remick is a study in balance. …
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