We get it: Cooking in the kitchen with your kids can be equal parts rewarding and nerve-racking. While there’s no doubt that there are treasured moments waiting to be had, it’s the test of patience and potential hazards that more times than not keep parents from welcoming the extra sets of tiny hands. But here’s…
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Four New Food Groups: When Southern Staples Meet Northern Taste Buds
Mount Pleasant Magazine: loved locally, known nationwide. We’re honored to announce that we have breached into award-winning territory, placing in the 69th annual Green Eyeshade Awards, an institution that has recognized the very best journalism in the southeastern U.S. (covering 11 states) since 1950 and is deemed as the “nation’s oldest regional journalism contest.” Among…
Palmetto Mushrooms, LLC: Foraging For Flavor
Local Mushrooms Hitting Culinary Spots If you’ve eaten at Edmund’s Oast, Magnolias, NICO, The Park Café or Acme Lowcountry Kitchen, chances are you’ve savored a mushroom variety foraged by Micah Garrison. From the earthy to the buttery, he’s uncovered the fungi every restaurateur and chef wants in their kitchen. The perfect wild complement to freshcaught…
Burtons Grill & Bar: Something for Everyone
Burtons Grill & Bar offers the best aged beef available from Allen Brothers, well-known nationwide for supplying premium cuts of meat to the best steakhouses. Burtons provides a fullyplated dinner served with twice-baked potatoes, seasonal vegetables and bone marrow butter. Burtons has a delicious variety of sandwiches. Their Reuben is made from certified Angus corned…
Falling Back in Love with Brunch
Has brunch become a spectator sport? Between the long lines and yolk-breaking videos on Instagram, we might spend as much time watching other people enjoy their eggs benedict as brunching ourselves. It’s time to take back brunch. With an amazing spread around the Lowcountry. From the home-style Glass Onion occupying a little lot on Savannah…
Rusty Rudder: Great Food and Fellowship
Rusty Rudder just celebrated its fourth anniversary of serving up quality seafood, barbecue, burgers and seasonal salads to hungry patrons, and this community gathering spot shows no signs of slowing down. Owners Brian Johnston and Eric Paul live in Mount Pleasant and manage the restaurant, which is located on Highway 17. You can always find…
Beekeeping – Oh, How Sweet It Is…
As we step foot into Jim Craig’s Mount Pleasant backyard, we are greeted by the sight of 16 boxed man-made hives – stacks of multicolored levels, each possessing colonies. The pastel shaded containers hold hundreds of winged beauties, hard at work, producing that liquid gold we smear on toast and drop in tea every morning….
So Why Aren’t They Called ‘Shut Up Dogs’?
If you’re eating seafood at any respectable restaurant in the Lowcountry, chances are your meal will include at least two or three hush puppies – maybe more if you can convince one of those uninformed souls you are dining with, possibly someone from Ohio or Pennsylvania, that those little balls of fried cornmeal are nothing…
A&A Produce: Nourishing the Lowcountry
Founded in 2002, A&A Produce began when the Kemp family bought a small family-owned produce company that had been successfully servicing Myrtle Beach for over 10 years. Starting with six employees, the growing business now employs a staff of over 25 people and has expanded into the Charleston market. Entering its third year in the…
Electronic Merchant Systems: Purpose and Passion
Speak with Mike Werner of Electronic Merchant Systems of South Carolina for any length of time, and you will walk away with this: Werner is passionate about being the go-to service provider for merchant services in the Lowcountry and beyond. Serving the local community for almost two decades, he and his team of professionals have…
