Sat
12
Jul '08
Manhattan77 has made an interesting video overview of Savannah, Georgia which you can see below (or here ).
Thu
3
Jul '08
Enjoy the Holiday!
Join us tomorrow to enjoy an interesting series of historical 4th of July photos taken across the United States, courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Tue
25
Mar '08
If you regularly enjoy boating, fishing, or surfing it is essential to keep an eye on the tide. Here’s some handy tools and websites for the purpose:
Sciway.net has some free online tide prediction tables here that cover from Wilmington, NC to the entrance of the Savannah River as does the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
If you have a Palm OS PDA handheld, Tide Tool displays the tide and current graphs and tables for 6,900 locations worldwide. It also displays the times of sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, and the moon phases until the year 2031.
Tide Tool is free software. You can download it at http://www.tucows.com/preview/34687.
If you have a Windows OS PDA handheld, NavStation Tides from Woodpecker Software is available for $40. You can download a free trial version of the software here.
Mon
24
Mar '08
“Late last year I went on a mammoth eating adventure around the southern United States. I’ve banged on at length about Charleston’s grub here, after my shock at hearing about Bill Clinton letting his grits go cold (come on Bill, an Arkansas boy should know better). But I haven’t mentioned the amazing food I had elsewhere in the South. And that’s just rude.”
In the story, Susan Smillie of the UK newspaper The Guardian, enjoys the Southern hospitality of Atlanta where she eats (among many other delicious things) Carolina gold rice soup with grilled quail, peanuts, and scallions and New Orleans (where she eats jambalaya and explores the myriad joys of andouille sausage).
The trip starts in South Carolina, where she eats savory shrimp and grits at Charleston’s Old Village Post House and tender lamb glazed with chocolate barbecue sauce at Tristan’s.
You can read more of her story here.
Mon
10
Mar '08
According to a recent article on Foxbusiness.Com, the Southeastern United States is the best place to retire for those on fixed incomes. (The article goes on to list the American West and South and Central America on the #2 and #3 positions, respectively.)
As John Shelton Reed once said, “Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe’s wines and cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.”
Tue
4
Mar '08
Please feel free to enjoy our Southern Coastal Life MP3 Playlist which is filled with 30+ streaming songs that celebrate the pleasures of Southern food, fishing, surfing, and life spent on the water. (Additional music will be periodically added.)
Artists include: The Andrews Sisters, Andy Griffith, Van Morrison, Elijah and the Ebonites, The Weavers, Tom Waits, James Taylor, Carl Perkins, The Drifters, Dizzy Gillespie, Smiley Burnette, Fats Waller, Martha and the Vandellas, Hank Williams Sr., Tim McGraw, Jimmy Buffet, James Taylor, Ryan Adams, Stringbean, Little Milton, Louis Jordan, Dar Williams, and The Preservation Hall Band…good stuff!
Mon
3
Mar '08
From The Atlanta Journal Constitution:
“Once a popular food earns its retro cachet these days, the fine dining crowd can’t be far behind. Don’t believe it? Michel Richard — the great chef at Citronelle in Washington — has five little words to shake your soul:
“Tater Tot foie gras ravioli!” the chef exclaims by telephone. “I make the Tater Tot mixture, fill it with foie gras and then sauté it until it crisps. They’re wonderful.”
Fancy stuff aside, the French-born chef professes a fondness for the freezer-bag variety of this ultimate American bite in all its plainspoken goodness.
“I love Tater Tots like you get in a burger joint,” enthuses Richard. “They’re crunchy and crispy on the outside, and creamy and moist inside. Mmmmm.”
So enamored was Richard of the little potato snacks that developing a technique to duplicate (if not improve) them has become a long and evolving professional project. The very first recipe in his James Beard Award-winning cookbook Happy in the Kitchen (Artisan, $45) — an homage called Spuddies — binds potato cubes with gelatin, which melts when fried.“
You can read more of the article here.
Sun
3
Feb '08
The award winning outdoor sportsman magazine Field and Stream, recently named the Charleston Jetties one of the best fishing spots in the Southern United States.
Considered by the magazine to be the third best fishing spots in SC, the Santee-Cooper Area took first place in the state, with the Lake Russell Area listed in second place.
Here’s the full list of notable fishing spots in the South after the jump…
Fri
4
Jan '08
(Please click on each of the images above to see a larger version of the flyer.)
Wow! We never saw this coming!
Doug DuCap’s winning recipe for Charleston Chili is being featured in this week’s (1/1/2008) Piggly Wiggly supermarket flyer!
Today, with nearly 600 locations in 17 states, Piggly Wiggly is celebrating its 60th anniversary of service in the Carolinas. (There are 115 Piggly Wiggly stores in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Southeastern Georgia alone!)
Founded in Memphis, TN in 1916, Piggly Wiggly was America’s first true self-service grocery store. (You can find out more about the history of Piggly Wiggly here.)
As it says in Wikipedia:
“In the early days of retailing, all products had to be fetched by an assistant from shelves on one side of a counter while the customers stood on the other side and pointed to what they wanted. Many foods did not come in the individually wrapped consumer-size packages taken for granted today, so an assistant had to measure out the precise amount desired by the consumer. These practices were obviously labor-intensive and therefore quite expensive. The shopping process was slow, as the number of customers who could be attended at one time was limited by the number of clerks employed in the store.”
Sat
29
Dec '07
- Cornbread for gold! (from MarthaWhite.Com)
- Rice for riches! (from Southernliving.Com)
- Peas for peace! (from About.Com Southern Food)
- Collards for dollars! (from Soul-Food-Advisor.Com)
- Greens for greenbacks! (from The Food Network)
- Sweet potatoes for gold! (from Cooks.Com)
- Fish for silver! (from Charleston Seafood)
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Hog jowls for joy! (from Piggly Wiggly Supermarkets)
Enjoy the holiday!
Sun
16
Dec '07
Cookbooks make great gifts that can be enjoyed throughout the year.
Now you can celebrate the ease and grace of Southern hospitality when you give these classic Southern cookbooks from such award-winning authors as Craig Claiborne, Pat Conroy, Nathalie Dupree, the Lee Brothers, Frank Stitt, Bob Waggoner, and the Junior League of Charleston.
Bob Waggoner’s Charleston Grill at Charleston Place
Charleston Receipts
Craig Claiborne’s Kitchen Primer
Craig Claiborne’s Southern Cooking
Frank Stitt’s Southern Table: Recipes and Gracious Traditions from Highlands Bar and Grill
Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-be Southerners
Nathalie Dupree’s Shrimp and Grits
Nathalie Dupree’s New Southern Cooking
Nathalie Dupree’s Southern Memories: Recipes and Reminiscences
Party Receipts from the Charleston Junior League: Hors D’Oeuvres, Savories, Sweets
Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life
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