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Low-Brow Low-Country Cuisine

Posted by Intelligent Travel in Taste of Travel on August 10, 2012
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Fried chicken, a staple of Lowcountry cuisine. (Photograph by John Hyun, Flickr)

National Geographic Traveler’s creative director, Jerry Sealy, took the magazine’s advice, making the trek out to Pawleys Island to go on one of the “Best Summer Trips.” While there are plenty of top-tier restaurants in the South Carolina Lowcountry, you can find great eats for dirt cheap, too. Here are Jerry’s picks for the best of low-brow Lowcountry cuisine.

The Gullah: A Disappearing Culture

Posted by Aric S. Queen in The Good Traveler on May 17, 2012
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Traditional Gullah basket-weaving, seen mostly on the Sea Islands in South Carolina.

Everyone’s heard of Brer Rabbit. Everyone knows the song “Kumbaya.” And everyone has cooked a “one-pot meal” at some point in their life. So why do so few of us know about the Gullah – the people who gave us things like these? That’s the question many people with Gullah heritage — descendants of slaves brought from West Africa to the “Rice Coast” in the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry — are asking. Bill Green, the owner of Gullah Grub in Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, is one of them.