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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the kitchen with Gullah Geechee chef Gina Capers-Willis Gina Capers-Willis calls herself a Geechee Girl. Her roots come from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She died Friday at her home in Edisto Island, South Carolina. Emily Meggett, queen of Gullah Geechee cuisine, passed away on April ...

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 ...

Daufuskie Island native Sallie Ann Robinson joins the James Beard Foundation Hall of Fame for her Gullah cookbooks.

This is an opinion commentary by arts and culture columnist Maxine L. Bryant. Much of Gullah Geechee culture is connected to the waterways and the foodways. The waterways (ocean waters surrounding the ...

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 ...

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 ...