Charleston’s Only Chef-Led Culinary & History Tour
Walk the French Quarter. Learn from a chef. Taste history.
In the humid, salt-crusted twilight of 1970s Charleston, Meeting Street was no postcard. It was a landscape of heavy silence and crumbling brick that felt more like a scene from Poe than a travel brochure. Long before the city found its polish, it was a reliquary of subterranean secrets. And beneath one ruined building at …
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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Chef William Deas, inventor of She Crab Soup and the REAL Rhett's Butler. Who Was William Deas? In Charleston, the story of Mr. William Deas and his invention of She Crab Soup is the legendary stuff of history and tour guide fake-lore. Most everyone knows or has heard the fabled account of how Mr. Deas, …