Good Morning Lowcountry

Porky things

GMLc got an e-mail this week from a Charlestonian who now lives in North Carolina (we'll forgive him for that) and craves two classic Lowcountry foods ... liver pudding (made with rice, stuffed into a casing and often eaten cold, also called rice puddin' or liver puddin') and red link sausages.

We referred him to a few butchers, notably Murray's Links and Sausages at 1667 Meeting Street Road, which still makes both.

"My brother and I ... from time to time have these overwhelming cravings for these items," Ramon Cook wrote. "These were items that when we would walk home after school we would feast on regularly. Great memories ... We know to some (our Mom included, she lives in Charleston) that these foods are not the most healthy, but in a time when foods are headed toward blandness and the tastes are so similar and you sometimes long for a treat from your simpler days, it is nice to know that some remain."

Then we noticed that among Lowcountry foodies is a blogger called the Rev. Big Dumb Chimp who, since February 2006, has been writing a blog titled Pork and Whiskey.

A barbecue, ale and bourbon fan, he (we assume he's a he) is clearly obsessed with pork and counts the hits on his site as "oinks."

"Ultimate porky goodness," he wrote this week. "I love bacon. I love how it smells, the way the crispy fat explodes when you bite it, the way it makes everything and anything taste better, the way it permeates the house after cooking up a good batch, the usefulness, the smokeyness…"

Then he gave a recipe for making your own maple cured hickory smoked bacon.

Besides curing his own bacon, the Rev. makes his own sausages, travels to barbecue joints and is a connoisseur of heritage pigs. Find Pork and Whiskey at porkandwhiskey.wordpress.com.

The Rev. isn't quite as bacon-obsessed as the blogger (whose location we don't know) of The Bacon Show, which publishes "one bacon recipe per day, every day, forever."

Find them all at baconshow.blogspot.com.

Sweetgrass meetup

Thirty-five basketmakers meet today at the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site as part of the Sweetgrass/Gullah Geechee Community Project in Mount Pleasant. They represent all of the historic black communities in Mount Pleasant, said Mike Allen of the National Park Service.

Their mission is to make an inventory of historic sites, buildings and basket stands and the Lowcountry's historic black communities.

They plan oral histories, a database and photo documentation for application to the National Register of Historic Places. Researchers from Clemson University and the College of Charleston will explain the project today from noon to 2 p.m.

Climate change

Conservation Voters of South Carolina and the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences at the College of Charleston will hold a Citizens Climate Workshop on Saturday.

Their stated purpose is to help South Carolina residents address global warming and to elevate the issue in the 2008 presidential primaries and election.

It's 10 a.m.-noon and open to the public (free) at Wachovia Auditorium, College of Charleston School of Business, 5 Liberty St. A new documentary film by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy will be screened (cleanenergy.org). To RSVP to the workshop, go to heatison.org.

GMLc

Call 937-5564. Write gmlc@postandcourier.com. Find the blog at gmlc.typepad.com.

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