Where food and history meet
At some point, many or most of the visitors to our city find themselves drawn to White Point Gardens. Located at the tip of the Charleston peninsula where High Battery meets South Battery, visitors are afforded a view of the Ashley and Cooper rivers meeting to form the Charleston harbor. From there, it is said, …
Our review by Deidre Schipani of the Charleston Post and Courier is out today. Kind words and very gratifying to know you are making a difference in your operation. That said, none of this would be possible without the great team we have at Old Village Post House and the visionary leadership of our General …
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Unbeknownst to me, we had one of my favorite Charleston food writers in residence at last week's Old Village Post House Compass Box Scotch Whisky dinner - Robert Moss. Check out Robert Moss's review of our OVPH Compass Box Scotch Dinner! http://tinyurl.com/ctkg4hk At any rate, it was a real success, a lot of hard …
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In the spirit of Notes From A Kitchen (the 2012 James Beard Cookbook Award for Best Photography) I thought it might be interesting to share some of the creative and collaborative thought process in putting a menu together. Once again, I have been able to partner with Patrick Emerson, the wine director for Maverick Southern Kitchens. …
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At the Bombay Indian Restaurant / Bombay Bazaar, Robert Moss, who spent some time in India this year, had a fantastic write up about this combination of Indian grocery store and restaurant back in October. While I generally love Robert's writing, I did feel that he did the restaurant a disservice by largely overlooking a …
Charleston, we need to chat. I have for some time had a growing misgiving about our fair city. We continue to enjoy the blessing of the spotlight of national culinary focus. The Upper King Street Design District continues to develop unabated with killer eateries like The Grocery, The Macintosh and Mike Lata's as yet un …
My buddy Chef James Clark is arguably the most avid outdoorsman I know this side of Rene Redzepi, and probably a whole lot more fun. While you can imagine Rene truckin' around the woods outside Copenhagen looking for edible lichens to pair with a cardamom - milk skin, Chef James would much rather spend time …
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"What," I asked flatly "did you say?" The elder brother replied. "May I try some of that also?" ...and then there were none. The morning smells of pecan - laced smoke, caramelizing onions, malt vinegar and muscovado sugar grafted to crispy taters and shredded porcine goodness had done the job. It was the nudge needed …
This blog begins with a cheeseburger. Due both to the fact that it is first and foremost the primary focus of my younger step son's diet, and to its iconic status in American foodways, I wanted to weigh in. As the previous Executive Chef at Gaylord Opryland, the 17th largest hotel and convention center in …