Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gina Capers-Willis calls herself a Geechee Girl. Her roots come from Daufuskie Island, South Carolina and the Gullah islands off ...

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 ...

Last year we celebrated a chef who got a book deal at age 89. Emily Meggett from Edisto, S.C., was a queen of Gullah Geechee cooking, and her cookbook became a bestseller. NPR culture correspondent ...

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 ...

She never used a recipe in cooking, but she published a best-selling cookbook that documented the Gullah Geechee food of the coastal South. By Christina Morales Emily Meggett, a Southern home cook who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chicken yassa and couscous Photo by Bea Da Costa Alexander Smalls is Southern through and through. "I'm like Faulkner," he says.

Gullah history, handmade souvenirs, and serious soul food fill the itinerary.

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 ...

Tia Clark shares history, language, and tradition on the waters that shaped her heritage.

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 ...

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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 ...