Charleston’s Only Chef-Led Culinary & History Tour
Walk the French Quarter. Learn from a chef. Taste history.
Explore the lost history of Henry’s on Market Street, one of Charleston’s most influential restaurants. Rare 1939 and postwar menus reveal how Lowcountry seafood, deviled crab, French culinary technique, and Chef John Bolton helped shape the evolution of Charleston dining.
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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