Charleston’s Only Chef-Led Culinary & History Tour
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Brunch menus are an open invitation to the cost-conscious chef, a dumping ground for the odd bits left over from Friday and Saturday nights... Cooks hate brunch. Brunch is punishment block for the B-Team cooks, or where the farm team of recent dishwashers learn their chops. Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential There are those chefs …
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One block up and one block over from my usual haunt at Old Village Post House Inn sits a rather diminutive looking cinder block building. The H&R Sweet Shop, open since 1945, shares the space with a hat shop. It's been on my list for several years- right in front of me, yet I never made …
So there's that. Huh. Just sayin'
Like many, I awoke today to the MLK Doodle on my Google search page. I took a few moments to reflect on the slain civil rights torch bearer, his contributions, his leadership, his sacrifice. I thought about the relations we share as Southerners, about the camaraderie I share with my team in the kitchen, the …
"Gentlemen. When two separate evens occur simultaneously pertaining to the same object in inquiry we must always pay strict attention." "Give me a donut." Special Agent Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks I ran across an old Stuart Brioza menu. I was trying to put some sense of order to the man cave / office and found …
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"In fetid darkness still to live and run-- And all for nothing it had ever done Except forget to go in fear perhaps. No one would know except for ancient maps That such a brook ran water.” Robert Frost Researching a history of James Island, I ran across this on the Charleston Museum site, that …
As originally published in Mt. Pleasant Magazine, 7/2015. Special thanks to my editor, @DeniseKJames. Posted by MPM 2 Comments Original photo by Heather Grilliot, additional photos courtesy author. Maniacal and seemingly half-crazed, Glenn Roberts bursts through the back kitchen door. “I’ve got to be across town in 15 minutes. Here,” he blurts, handing me a small …
As I was digging around this week researching for my upcoming "Ghosts of Charleston Restaurants Past" project, I found myself digging through the City of Charleston Tour Guide Training Manual, compiled and edited by the Historic Charleston Foundation. Any would be tour guide wishing to be licensed by the City of Charleston is required to …
The Charleston Market sits on land conveyed to the City of Charleston in 1788 by Revolutionary War general Charles Cotesworth Pinckney in order to "lay out a street from the channel of the Cooper River to Meeting Street 100 feet broad, and in said street to establish a public market or markets for the purpose …
Merry Christmas Y'all! In the spirit of giving (and since I'm still intoxicated from watching the new film on überchef Rene Redzepi "Noma, My Perfect Storm"), I wanted to share a fantastic resource for those of you inclined to brave the 80f December elements to go foraging. This has been circulating for a while in …