• Video: Executive Chef Robert Carter creates Rice and Grits Lowcountry style
• Culinary Festivals & Events: The World Grits Festival, Aiken Lobster Race and more
• Featured Restaurant: Louis's on Pawley's Island
• What's New: SC Dining Trivia

Welcome to Savor the Flavors of South Carolina, your monthly culinary e-news from the Palmetto State.

This month we focus on the unique blend of West African, Native American and European influences that combine to create the magical tastes of the South Carolina Lowcountry.

All along the coast from Charleston’s famed restaurants to the tip of Pawley’s Island, SC chefs are preserving the age old traditions of serving Lowcountry dishes that are always fresh, flavorful and hearty.

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Watch and learn - Chef Robert Carter, Executive Chef of the Pennisula Grill in Charleston, uses fresh, South Carolina ‘home grown’ ingredients to cook up delicious Lowcountry Shrimp and Grits.

Louis's on Pawley's Island

Louis’s on Pawley’s Island showcases the talents of chef/owner Louis Osteen, who is widely known for his passionate devotion to the foods of his Southern ancestry. Find out why Chef Osteen has been called “the premier interpreter of New Southern Cuisine” and discover the culinary secrets he reveals in his book, Louis Osteen’s Charleston Cuisine.

World Grits Festival
April 13 - 15, 2007
Saint George, SC

A three-day celebration of fun-filled events includes a parade, rolling-in-the-Grits contest, beauty queens, grits meals, crafts, grits grinding, art show, street dancing, clogging, gospel music, carnival, live bands, grits eating contest, and more.

MORE TO COME IN SC:

• Colleton County Rice Festival
• Aiken Lobster Race
• Rosewood Crawfish Festival
• Lowcountry Shrimp Festival
• South Carolina Poultry Festival

Hoppin' John Recipe

One-pot cooking is a culinary tradition in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Now you can cook up your own pot of one of our most Famous Flavors. Hoppin’ John has been described as a “pilaf made with beans and rice” and is traditionally served with sliced onions and cornbread. Yummy.

NEW TRIVIA QUESTIONS

Test your culinary cognitive skills with this month's South Carolina dining trivia!