Before we pick up our forks, let’s invoke the ancestors: Southern culinary mentors like Martha Lou Gadsden, Louis Osteen, Robert Carter, Emily Meggett, and Joseph “Chef Joe” Glascoe Randall are the ones who taught us to never stir a pot of rice, and why it’s sacrilege to add sugar to cornbread or grits. Without their guidance, we wouldn’t be celebrating this kind of food today. And, building on their legacy, change has come to South Carolina’s Lowcountry, particularly on the greater Charleston peninsula, which my family has called home for a really long time.
“Look how much the hospitality community has grown,” says Alyssa Maute Smith, executive director of the…..