Catfish rights at Husk
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 Posted in Food, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »That's Arthur from L.A. proclaiming his knife-and-fork rights to the cornmeal dusted catfish at Husk in Charleston. The four of us arrived hungry, and you had to be fast when you wanted to taste something. We ordered plates for the ...
Charleston for the to-be-marrieds
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »For the September 2012 issue of Brides magazine, I had the chance to write about the romantic side of Charleston, from oak tree-shaded outdoor settings for a wedding ceremony, to some of my favorite cake bakers, including Jim Smeal, Lauren ...
Whiskey shaving with Portland General Store
Monday, July 9th, 2012 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Maine days | No Comments »Love the Maine and South Carolina connections of this project for Portland General Store (PGS). Last summer, I had the chance to write copy for the company's first look-book and its line of "handsomely addictive, sea-and-forest based products for the ...
Eleven Cooking: PALATE is out
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 Posted in Food, In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, People | No Comments »I had a great time interviewing 11 Charleston-area chefs for the cover story of the premiere issue of THE LOCAL PALATE, now out in print. The premise was to ask each chef five basic questions about Charleston's food and food ...
Greetings, Proletariat
Friday, August 27th, 2010 Posted in Art, Craft, In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »To help recognize the growing creative force in Charleston - now said to be 27,000+ strong - I've been working on a campaign with STITCH Design Co. and Parliament. We've had fun with this. The first round of print pieces were ...
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 ...