This issue’s cover shot is a seafood spread orchestrated by Tavern & Table, a Mount Pleasant restaurant with a beautiful waterfront view of Shem Creek. Photographed by Chad Klimaszewski of 12pt Creative, this stunning capture highlights the various coastal themes found within this issue of Mount Pleasant Magazine and pays homage to our Southern winters…
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Just Peachy: Bite Into the Season’s Fruit
Georgia may be known as “the peach state,” but in fact, South Carolina ranks second – only behind California – in terms of the amount of peaches produced in the United States, according to the South Carolina Peach Council. That means peach baskets will be overflowing in the fuzzy summer fruit’s prime months of July…
National Ice Cream Day (Month)
July 24 may be dubbed National Ice Cream Day, but let’s be honest, all of July should really be National Ice Cream Month. The Lowcountry is chock-full of awesome places to get your ice cream fix, and we asked our staff to share some of their personal favorites. Hopefully, they’ll inspire you to get out there and indulge yourself the next…
Life, Love and Frosé: Co-Op owner Jess Patterson Serves It All
“I don’t even really know what I just rambled about, but I’m hitting ‘share.’ That’s how we roll at The Co-Op!” So ends a post on the Instagram page of The Co-Op of Sullivan’s Island, a café serving local coffee, gourmet sandwiches, wine, beer and eight flavors of their specialty drink, frosé. In rambling, stream-of-consciousness…
Farm to Family Table: GrowFood Grows New Connections
By Pamela Jouan GrowFood Carolina opened its warehouse in Charleston in 2011 and has been instrumental since then in fostering relationships with independent farms. A subsidiary of the Coastal Conservation League, an organization with the mission to protect threatened resources of the South Carolina coastal plain, GrowFood Carolina is just one cog in their wheel….
The Story of the Cocktail Bandits: A Bar Crawl to Success
It’s always fun to settle in with a glass in hand and tell the story of the Cocktail Bandits. We met many years ago at the College of Charleston, when we were both freshmen and excited about the future. We majored in political science at a school that was very homogeneous in both tradition and…
How Charleston Restaurants Survived: Redefining Dining
The events of 2020 hold a lot of life lessons, which vary depending on your own specific situation. But if there’s one universal truth this year has unveiled, it’s that things can change in an instant, and the way we adapt can make or break us. The restaurant industry was particularly affected after the announcement…
Tavern & Table’s Chef Ray England: Taking on New Flavors
Of course, “taking on new flavors” wasn’t necessarily the intention of Head Chef Ray England when he took over the culinary team at Tavern & Table in Mount Pleasant, but sometimes amazing things just happen – and, thankfully, our taste buds get to reap the benefits. “Long story short, one of the owners and I…
Recipe for the Past: The Importance of Writing it Down
It was the morning of my grandmother’s funeral a few years back, and there I was: elbow deep in flour and yeast, kneading a warm, shaggy dough with an eye on the clock. I was on a mission to connect to her somehow, and in the kitchen that day, I did. She was a phenomenal…
Harvesting Hope: Community Rallies Around Farming Family
Farming is one of our most important professions. It’s also one of the hardest, with long hours, endless labor, droughts, floods, crop diseases, livestock predators. It’s no surprise that less than 2% of our population puts food on their tables by growing things to go on ours. Scott and Tina Johnson wouldn’t dream of another…
