Pay It Forward Charleston’s founding team member Drisa Lamb shares how the lowcountry food community came together in the early days of the COVID-19 shutdown to take care of eachother, forging an organization committed to serving those who serve us. By Drisa Lamb, Butcher & Bee Manager Pay It Forward Charleston began when Michael Shemtov…
AMOR Healing Kitchen and our Food Philosophy
Contributed by Maria Kelly. Follow AMOR Healing Kitchen on Instagram at @amor_healing_kitchen. How about those tomatoes that we can buy in December at the grocery store? Yep. Disgusting. It’s almost like you can taste the nutritional deficiency when you take a bite. I moved to Charleston in 1994 and although I don’t recall CSA’s existing…
Local Alternatives To Your Pantry Essentials
Contributed by Jai Jones. Follow Jai on Instagram at @JaiEats. As we near the middle of Eat Local Season, you may have seen many ways to shift some of your spending to support the local food system- from CSAs to dining at a new neighborhood restaurant. But one of the easiest that easily can fit…
Board the Ark of Taste
Written by Community Partner and contributor Sterling Eason, Board of Directors, Slow Food Charleston. Follow Sterling at @sterlingeason and Slow Food Charleston at @slowfoodchs. Let’s talk about Albanian bees, shall we? In the craggy and rocky mountains of southeastern Albania, far from the sulfurous pluff mud of the Lowcountry, grows a tiny alpine flower called Bedunica. Its…