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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daufuskie Island native Sallie Ann Robinson joins the James Beard Foundation Hall of Fame for her Gullah cookbooks.

Emily Meggett, queen of Gullah Geechee cuisine, passed away on April 21 after a short illness, her daughter Lavern Meggett confirmed. According to The New York Times, Meggett died Friday at her home ...

She never used a recipe in cooking, but she published a best-selling cookbook that documented the Gullah Geechee food of the coastal South. By Christina Morales Emily Meggett, a Southern home cook who ...

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 ...

EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - Lavern Meggett and her little sisters Marvette Meggett and Elizabeth Jones are finding warmth in the home-cooked recipes and memories of their late mother, Emily Meggett. ...

Kardea Brown has heard people describe her as an “old soul” for as long as she can remember. But not until she was in college at Oglethorpe University, surrounded by classmates living what seemed to ...

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 ...