Found art
Saturday, June 5th, 2010 Posted in Art, Craft, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »A summer visit to John Duckworth's studio... There’d been a ruckus in the yard that morning, John Duckworth said when I drove up. A neighbor's dog had carried off one of his flock of young chickens and feathers flew, ...
Oyster note in T+L
Sunday, February 14th, 2010 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Oysters, Travel | No Comments »Oysters make a nice valentine, I think. I had the chance to write up a few South Carolina oyster-eating places in Travel + Leisure's cover-story round-up of romantic destinations. Here's my blurb, on page 9o, titled "A Low-Country Drive." You ...
Serving lump crab and pickled shrimp for almost 50 years
Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in Food, In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »For a winter issue of Grand Strand magazine, I had the chance to write a cover story about a restaurant I've known since I was a teenager - the old Sea Captain's House, oceanfront in Myrtle Beach. The story and ...
Life by tides
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »This is so cool. A dozen writers were asked to write odes to the Lowcountry for this month's issue of Charleston Magazine. (The other writers included Josephine Humphreys, William Baldwin, Marjory Wentworth, Roger Pinckney, Jonathan Sanchez and more who I've ...
Oyster season is on
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Posted in Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Oysters | No Comments »No, it’s not that you get a mouthful of pluff. It's more like when you swim in a saltwater creek and can lick the saltiness from your lips. That's the taste of our oysters, what we can pull from the ...
Beers with the supper club starter
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in Food, In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »I've been back on the underground supper club beat again, and wrote a profile of jimihatt for the new "people" issue of Charleston Magazine, just out. Here's an excerpt: Meeting at James Island’s Zia Taqueria over tacos and beer, “jimihatt” arrives ...
Fall’s backyard and breakfast
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 Posted in Food, Home & garden, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »Fall's coming and the eating is fine. Last night we ate hot forkfuls of smoky orange-yolk eggs, gathered in the backyard and fried with butter and chopped basil. The grill is set under the pecan trees, and we broke pecan ...
Singing on St. Helena
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, People, Travel | No Comments »In a white-painted, one-room building on St. Helena Island, Joseph “Rev.” Bryant was singing “Oh Lord, come by here.” His voice filled the spare, shed-sized structure, with its benches of narrow boards nailed together, one bare bulb in the ceiling. ...
STITCH gets rolling
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Art, Craft, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »What a nice project... I've been writing copy for a couple of graphic designer friends who are known for the textures and handcrafted details in their work. Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson have just formed STITCH, a design company with ...
Guerrilla Bite
Saturday, May 30th, 2009 Posted in Art, Craft, Food, In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »Back on the covert dining beat, I wrote this Quick Bite feature for the May 2009 Charleston Magazine, the arts issue with the Shepard Fairey cover. I'm a fan of street art and underground supper clubs, so it was a ...
Mr. Biggerstaff and his honey
Monday, May 18th, 2009 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, People, Wild animals and places | No Comments »His business cards read, “Honey is my hobby,” and 72-year-old Robert Biggerstaff isn’t kidding. Since 1967 he’s been building bee boxes, tending hives and collecting honey – all under the oak trees in his sideyard that backs up to a ...
Saturday at P.M. King’s Gro.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in Food, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »Down on Wadmalaw Island where the road splits to go either to Rockville or Cherry Point, Simon Black had the BBQ drum cooker going hot with some split oak - he adds pecan or hickory wood when he has it. ...