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 ...

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 ...

An 89-year-old first-time cookbook author, Emily Meggett, celebrates the cuisine of South Carolina's Gullah Geechee community and its African and Southern traditions. Last year we celebrated a chef ...

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Gullah Connections is committed to honoring the hardworking people who are dedicating their lives to preserving the Lowcountry's Gullah Culture. One of the ...

Note: Emily Meggett died Friday, Apr. 21, 2023 at age 90 after a brief illness. In tribute to her, we're again sharing our 2022 profile of this queen of Gullah Geechee cooking. Lots of home cooks ...

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 ...

Much of Gullah Geechee culture is connected to the waterways and the foodways. The waterways (ocean waters surrounding the Sea Islands where Gullah Geechee people live) were pathways to freedom for ...

Nan Bauer News Special Writer Sallie Ann Robinson doesn't shake hands. She hugs. I almost get one when I first meet her in the kitchen at Zingerman's Roadhouse, but she and chef Alex Young are up to ...

Emily Meggett spent decades caring for her community with her delicious, traditional Gullah Geechee food from South Carolina. She shared her... For Gullah Geechee chef Emily Meggett, cooking was about ...