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Taste the State: South Carolina’s Signature Foods, Recipes, and Their Stories is a culinary journey through the rich history and diverse flavors of the Palmetto State. From savory shrimp and grits to sweet peach cobbler, this book showcases the iconic dishes and recipes that define South Carolina’s unique gastronomic heritage. Discover the delicious tastes and fascinating stories behind these beloved dishes.
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If you’re a foodie or just a lover of Southern cuisine, Taste the State: South Carolina’s Signature Foods, Recipes, and Their Stories is a must-have addition to your collection. This beautifully curated book takes you on a culinary journey through the Palmetto State, highlighting its most iconic dishes and the stories behind them.
Discover South Carolina’s Rich Culinary Heritage
From shrimp and grits to barbecue pork, Taste the State showcases the diverse flavors and traditions that make South Carolina’s cuisine so unique. Each recipe is accompanied by a brief history of the dish, giving you a deeper understanding of the cultural significance of each bite.
Learn from Renowned South Carolina Chefs
One of the highlights of Taste the State is the opportunity to learn from some of the state’s most talented chefs. With recipes from renowned establishments like Husk Charleston and The Ordinary, you’ll be able to recreate authentic South Carolina dishes in your own kitchen.
Experience the Flavors of the Lowcountry
South Carolina’s Lowcountry cuisine is known for its emphasis on fresh seafood and local ingredients. With recipes for classics like she-crab soup and Frogmore stew, Taste the State allows you to bring the taste of the coast into your home.
Celebrate South Carolina’s Food Festivals
South Carolina is home to a number of vibrant food festivals that celebrate the state’s culinary traditions. Taste the State includes recipes inspired by these festivals, allowing you to recreate the excitement of events like the World Grits Festival and the South Carolina Cornbread Festival.
Bring a Taste of South Carolina to Your Table
Whether you’re a native South Carolinian or just a fan of Southern cooking, Taste the State offers something for everyone. With easy-to-follow recipes and stunning photography, this book is sure to become a staple in your kitchen.
Experience the Warmth and Hospitality of South Carolina
South Carolina is known for its warm hospitality and welcoming spirit, and Taste the State captures that essence in every dish. Whether you’re hosting a dinner party or just cooking for your family, these recipes are sure to impress and delight.
Overall, Taste the State: South Carolina’s Signature Foods, Recipes, and Their Stories is a love letter to the culinary heritage of the Palmetto State. With its rich history, diverse flavors, and authentic recipes, this book is a must-have for anyone who appreciates good food and good storytelling. Bring a taste of South Carolina into your home today with Taste the State.
Price: $36.99 - $34.40
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Product Description
Bitter Southerner 2022 Summer Reading pick • Garden & Gun Best Southern Cookbooks pick • Forbes Best New Cookbooks For Travelers pick • 2021 Gourmand International Cookbook Award Finalist
A vivid cultural history of South Carolina’s most distinctive ingredients and signature dishes
From the influence of 1920 fashion on asparagus growers to an heirloom watermelon lost and found, Taste the State abounds with surprising stories from South Carolina’s singularly rich food tradition. Here, Kevin Mitchell and David S. Shields present engaging profiles of eighty-two of the state’s most distinctive ingredients, such as Carolina Gold rice, Sea Island White Flint corn, and the cone-shaped Charleston Wakefield cabbage, and signature dishes, such as shrimp and grits, chicken bog, okra soup, Frogmore stew, and crab rice. These portraits, illustrated with original photographs and historical drawings, provide origin stories and tales of kitchen creativity and agricultural innovation; historical “receipts” and modern recipes, including Chef Mitchell’s distillation of traditions in Hoppin’ John fritters, okra and crab stew, and more.
Because Carolina cookery combines ingredients and cooking techniques of three greatly divergent cultural traditions, there is more than a little novelty and variety in the food. In Taste the State Mitchell and Shields celebrate the contributions of Native Americans (hominy grits, squashes, and beans), the Gullah Geechee (field peas, okra, guinea squash, rice, and sorghum), and European settlers (garden vegetables, grains, pigs, and cattle) in the mixture of ingredients and techniques that would become Carolina cooking. They also explore the specialties of every region―the famous rice and seafood dishes of the lowcountry; the Pee Dee’s catfish and pinebark stews; the smothered cabbage, pumpkin chips, and mustard-based barbecue of the Dutch Fork and Orangeburg; the red chicken stew of the midlands; and the chestnuts, chinquapins, and corn bread recipes of mountain upstate.
Taste the State presents the cultural histories of native ingredients and showcases the evolution of the dishes and the variety of preparations that have emerged. Here you will find true Carolina cooking in all of its cultural depth, historical vividness, and sumptuous splendor―from the plain home cooking of sweet potato pone to Lady Baltimore cake worthy of a Charleston society banquet.
From the Publisher
Publisher : University of South Carolina Press (October 12, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 248 pages
ISBN-10 : 1643361961
ISBN-13 : 978-1643361963
Item Weight : 2.05 pounds
Dimensions : 7.25 x 1 x 10.25 inches
Price: $36.99 - $34.40
(as of Feb 06, 2025 11:34:05 UTC – Details)
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