Authentic Lowcountry cuisine like she-crab soup along with Gullah Geechee sweetgrass basket weavers and other folk-artists will be on hand this weekend for the inaugural Lowcountry Cultural Festival.

Gina Capers-Willis calls herself a Geechee Girl. Her roots come from Daufuskie Island, South Carolina and the Gullah islands off the Georgia coast. But she grew up in Savannah at a time when she says ...

Alexander Smalls is Southern through and through. “I’m like Faulkner,” he says. “We put commas, not periods on everything—it’s never over.” This sentiment rings true not only in his storytelling but ...

This fall, I traveled to Charleston, South Carolina, for its inaugural Food & Wine Classic. I’ve long been interested in the history of South Carolina’s Gullah Geechee people, so I arrived early to ...

Summerville restaurant owner Wendell Varner has been serving flavorful seafood at Gumbo House Express at 120 Tupperway Drive for two years, and he said his loyal customers include members of the ...

Gullah Geechee people are descendants of Africans who were enslaved in coastal areas of the southeastern United States. They held onto traditions from Africa and mixed them with new ones, forming ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A recent North Charleston High School graduate and rising culinary star sat down with News 2’s Carolyn Murray on our podcast ‘Let’s Talk’ to discuss where she learned her ...

Back in 2020, esteemed chef and James Beard-winning writer and cookbook author Alexander Smalls was deep in research about the foundations of African cooking and cuisine in preparation for an expo in ...