The culinary world is mourning the loss of Emily Meggett, known as the Gullah matriarch of Edisto Island. Meggett died on April 21 after a brief illness. She was 90 years old. Meggett, who never once ...

It struck me that during my first meeting with Emily Meggett — a meeting in which she was supposed to be vetting me, a first-time cookbook collaborator, to essentially write her remarkable life story ...

Gina Capers-Willis calls herself a Geechee Girl. Her roots come from Daufuskie Island, South Carolina and the Gullah islands off the Georgia coast. But she grew up in Savannah at a time when she says ...

I turned off U.S. Hwy 17 in Awendaw and was greeted by Chef Charlotte Jenkins at her two-story cedar home. It was as warm as she was. She owned and ran the restaurant Gullah Cuisine with her husband, ...

Kardea Brown has heard people describe her as an “old soul” for as long as she can remember. But not until she was in college at Oglethorpe University, surrounded by classmates living what seemed to ...

Before being celebrated in top culinary magazines or lauded in James Beard Award-winning restaurants, Lowcountry cooking was the defining cuisine of the coastal South. The city of Charleston, S.C., in ...

Emily Meggett, queen of Gullah Geechee cuisine, passed away on April 21 after a short illness, her daughter Lavern Meggett confirmed. According to The New York Times, Meggett died Friday at her home ...

Every summer when we were growing up, my family made the 13-hour drive from our house in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Edisto Island, South Carolina. My parents would wake my sisters and me at four in the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. To me, crab rice is one of the most underrated, well-kept, and well-loved recipes from out of the Lowcountry, the geographic and cultural region ...

EDISTO ISLAND — Emily Meggett, known nationally as the Gullah matriarch of Edisto Island, died April 21. She was 90. The author of New York Times bestselling cookbook “Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: ...

The Wilmington area has a lot of history, and much is being done to preserve different aspects. The Gullah Geechee culture is one area that has interested me since I first learned about it while ...