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New Year’s resolutions of the culinary type are somewhat predictable: Eat less sugar, less red meat, less food altogether.
This month, we look for cookbooks that are multipurpose: both excellent to cook from and desirable as presents.
“Red Truck Bakery: Gold Standard Recipes from America’s Favorite Rural Bakery”
“Southern Snacks” serves up new twists on old favorites, like the dip below, and clever riffs on classics, like transforming melon-and-prosciutto to watermelon with country ham.
Once September rolls around, impromptu summer cooking meals revert to routine weeknight cooking for families with school-age children. Sam Kass, chef and former senior adviser for national nutrition policy, wants to change our routines.
“Food 52 Any Night Grilling: 60 Ways to Fire Up Dinner (and More)”
“Saladish: A Crunchier, Grainier, Herbier, Heartier, Tastier Way with Vegetables”
“Soul: A Chef’s Culinary Evolution in 150 Recipes”
“Secrets of the Southern Table: A Food Lover’s Tour of the Global South”
“More Glass Onion Classics: Recipes from a Southern Restaurant”
“Eating from the Ground Up”
In “Weeknight Cooking with Your Instant Pot,” personal chef and cooking teacher turned full-time food blogger Kristy Bernardo didn’t set out to write a how-to. Rather, she offers a collection of 75 recipes using the machine to put dinner on the table in a fraction of the usual time, from qui…
“The Cottage Kitchen: Cozy Cooking in the English Countryside”
Holiday cookbooks bought to use or give as gifts should educate as well as entertain. We submit two excellent candidates.
Whether it be persimmons or paw paws, author Nancie McDermott delivers a 101 on their characteristics and recipes for them in “Fruit,” the newest cookbook in the University of North Carolina Press Savor the South series. (See example below.) Especially interesting are sections on lesser-know…
"Peter Callahan’s Party Food." Caterer to the stars, Peter Callahan produces beautiful bites, and whether they are in an array of the mini hors d’oeuvres that he is credited with inventing, a sensational sushi station, or an ice cream stand, all are artistically displayed. You’ll be wowed by…
“Food52 Ice Cream & Friends: 60 Recipes and Riffs.”
“On Vegetables: Modern Recipes for the Home Kitchen"
“Tartine All Day: Modern Recipes for the Home Cook”
“Over Easy: Sweet and Savory Recipes for Leisurely Days”
Michelle’s Chocolate Rice Krispy Peanut Butter Bon Bons
The 2017 edition of the Charleston Wine + Food Festival boasts more than 100 events over five days (it started Wednesday), featuring “homegrown flavor” with notable local and guest chefs, mixologists, winemakers, storytellers and artisans, adding up to around 500 professionals stirring every…
By establishing the Lee Brothers Library series with Rizzoli, brothers Matt Lee and Ted Lee have been able to bring what may be the first of many culinary jewels back into print, Pamela Strobel’s 1969 cookbook. Laced with Strobel’s poetry and seasoned with her life story, it is, as the readi…
“Stir, Sizzle, Bake: Recipes for Your Cast-Iron Skillet”
“Big Bad Breakfast: The Most Important Book of the Day.” Author John Currence owns a number of highly successful restaurants in Oxford, Mississippi, among them Big Bad Breakfast, the fountainhead of this cookbook. Like the hangtown fry recipe below, the food is robust, ranging from eye-opene…
“Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes”
★☆☆☆☆ Pawpaw does not live up to what Southern food means in Charleston.
Southern | French Quarter
★★★★☆ Rodney Scott's BBQ lets the good times, good food roll.
Barbecue | North Central
★★★★☆ Bar Normandy on Broad Street is unconventionally delicious.
Small plates | South of Broad
★★★★☆ SNOB
★★☆☆☆ High Cotton
★★☆☆☆ Old Village Post House
★★★☆☆ Unpretentious, comforting Goulette is a true neighborhood restaurant.
French | Cannonborough-Elliotborough
★★★★☆ Rappahannock's Charleston location is fresh and inventive.
Seafood | Eastside
Shrimp-and-grits hasn’t been a Lowcountry signature for very long, but the dish has more than made up for lost time with ubiquity.
Over the course of a year of restaurant reviewing, which translates to approximately 120 meals eaten for professional purposes, ther…
For the most part, the food at Tradd's in downtown Charleston is just mildly bad.
Cast your mind back, if you can, to that moment roughly a week ago, when you were meditating on the collision of worlds Old and New,…
It’s silly to fret over people not understanding precisely what a food critic’s work entails, since it’s hardly a job that most folk…
Melfi’s is the third restaurant that Brooks Reitz and Tim Mink have opened on the short strand of Upper King Street bounded by Congress and Sumter streets
Answering readers' food questions
Q: My fiance is from Dallas and laments the lack of true Tex-Mex, especially beef enchiladas with red chili con carne. Any recommendations?
South Carolina doesn’t have a homegrown version of traditional strips because the Atlantic surf clam doesn’t venture south of Cape Hatteras. But the strips grace several local menus.
Q: Next week, my husband and I will be celebrating our 47th anniversary. We prefer not to spend more than $50 or $60 at a restaurant…
Charleston's newest restaurants
When The Royal Tern posted a Facebook message alerting the owners of a wayward horse that it was grazing on their property, the John…
Hawaii is one of the smallest states but you wouldn’t know it from Karalee Fallert and April Bennett’s new salute to the state’s cuisine.
Doar Bros., 225 Meeting St. in Charleston, is serving cocktails, beer, wine and small plates, such as crudo and mac-and-cheese, also enhanced with shaved truffles.
As the bar’s name suggests, its cocktail menu is tropical, although guests are encouraged to repair to The Living Room, The Dewberry’s classic cocktail lounge, after last call at 9:30 p.m.
Interesting drinks around town
Exploring what locals eat throughout a day
David Williams lives in Summerville.
Tracy Lee lives in Hanahan.
Harriet Baker lives in Orangeburg.
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Look out for alternative proteins, interactive desserts that lend themselves to Instagram stories, and offbeat places to eat.
Harriet Baker lives in Orangeburg.
Doar Bros., 225 Meeting St. in Charleston, is serving cocktails, beer, wine and small plates, such as crudo and mac-and-cheese, also enhanced with shaved truffles.