December 2009
Savor the Lowcountry
Sweet shrimp over creamy grits, briny oysters roasted to plump perfection, wood-smoked pulled pork with sauce on the side.
Charleston Cooks Recipe Contest
Last summer, we asked for entries to the inaugural Charleston Cooks Recipe Contest, and readers responded in droves.
Smokin’ Ace
From her pink cat-eye glasses to the black garter belt, singer-guitarist Skye Paige is a wild card who likes to “whip out her slide and grill her Gibson Les Paul well done,” she says.
Insider’s Guide
It’s not often a new resident of only seven months can out-local the locals. But one Baltimore native is doing just that. As the membership and administrative coordinator for Lowcountry Local First (LLF), Amy Graul is leading the way to “localization.”
Five Loaves Café
For guests at downtown’s Five Loaves Café, the entertainment begins at tables decoupaged with phrases that express the owners’ philosophies about life and food.
Food Fight
With a bounty of local ingredients, distinctive foodways, and countless charms, Charleston has lured chefs from around the world to work in her celebrated restaurants.
Meet Your Match
Worried about what libations to serve with your holiday feasts? Simply pair wines with foods that share their characteristics
Toast of the Town
In the post-Prohibition 1940s and ’50s, champagne cocktails swept across America as the ultimate in chic libations.
Dine Around
Greenville, South Carolina
It was a tasting, so there was an arc of wines around me and the 35 or so other sippers and swirlers, each glass with a small pour of French red. The setting was Greenville’s 118-year-old brick “Trolley Barn”
Massimiliano Sarrocchi
The Italian-born chef-owner of Pane e Vino touts lucky charms, leisurely meals, and the love of family
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