Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the kitchen with Gullah Geechee chef Gina Capers-Willis Gina Capers-Willis calls herself a Geechee Girl. Her roots come from ...

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 ...

Note: Emily Meggett died Friday, Apr. 21, 2023 at age 90 after a brief illness. In tribute to her, we're again sharing our 2022 profile of this queen of Gullah Geechee cooking. Lots of home cooks ...

Every summer when we were growing up, my family made the 13-hour drive from our house in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Edisto Island, South Carolina. My parents would wake my sisters and me at four in the ...

Emily Meggett spent decades caring for her community with her delicious, traditional Gullah Geechee food from South Carolina. She shared her... For Gullah Geechee chef Emily Meggett, cooking was about ...

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