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 ...

It struck me that during my first meeting with Emily Meggett — a meeting in which she was supposed to be vetting me, a first-time cookbook collaborator, to essentially write her remarkable life story ...

Before being celebrated in top culinary magazines or lauded in James Beard Award-winning restaurants, Lowcountry cooking was the defining cuisine of the coastal South. The city of Charleston, S.C., in ...

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 ...

The culinary world is mourning the loss of Emily Meggett, known as the Gullah matriarch of Edisto Island. Meggett died on April 21 after a brief illness. She was 90 years old. Meggett, who never once ...

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 ...

I turned off U.S. Hwy 17 in Awendaw and was greeted by Chef Charlotte Jenkins at her two-story cedar home. It was as warm as she was. She owned and ran the restaurant Gullah Cuisine with her husband, ...

Emily Meggett, queen of Gullah Geechee cuisine, passed away on April 21 after a short illness, her daughter Lavern Meggett confirmed. According to The New York Times, Meggett died Friday at her home ...

Natalie Daise's first children's book about making okra stew acts as the backdrop for a story about family, tradition and sankofa. Sankofa is the act of going back for the good in the past and ...

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Gullah Connections is committed to honoring the hardworking people who are dedicating their lives to preserving the Lowcountry's Gullah Culture. One of 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 ...