The South Will Rise

 I was asked to write an article for Eat This! Charleston about the Lowcountry Local First Farm Tour.  It was so much fun!!  Corby, Walker, Nemo (our 11 year old Springer Spaniel) and I piled into the car and drove out to John’s Island where we met up with Ian, the photographer (his photograph is to [...]

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I work at the Charleston Library Society which is a pretty special place.  It is the third oldest library in the United States, and the collection of books, letters, maps etc. is unbelievably impressive.  This is the main room of the Library- it is beautiful.  And what better use for this amazing room than a backgammon [...]

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After surviving the Saturday night sleepover of 11 eight year old boys, we got to have some grown up fun by the way of the Charleston Cup.  The Charleston Cup is a steeplechase race that started twenty five years ago.  However, this is only the eighteenth running of the race as they took an eight year [...]

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We have a new food magazine in Charleston called The Local Palate.  The first issues arrived in my mailbox last week, and it is fabulous!!  Here is their “about us” from their web page www.thelocalpalate.com and find them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/thelocalpalate : We are a culinary magazine  that focuses on the food culture of Charleston. [...]

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I can’t keep my surfing fingers off of “A Yankee in a Southern Kitchen” – here’s yet another recipe hot off that delicious spot in the bloggosphere: I think you may agree that benne wafers with blueberries and cream sounds like the most delicious summer treat ever conceived. Also, benne wafers are extremely Southern! Charleston [...]

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