• Featured Story – Lucky Foods to Make ‘08 Great
• Savory Reels – Chef Fatback Cooks a Mess of Greens
• Featured Restaurant – Columbia’s Mac’s on Main
• Featured Events – Charleston Food & Wine Festival & The Lowcountry Oyster Fest
• Savory Reels – Premium sippin’ Firefly – ‘Vodka with a Southern Accent’
• Shop SC – Hoppin’ John’s Cookbooks & Stone Ground Corn

According to SC tradition, eating “dollar bills” and “coins” on New Year’s Day can help bring a year of good luck and financial reward. Invite Lady Luck into your home in 2008. Discover our bounty-promising culinary secrets and enjoy a plentiful year.

SC ‘Lucky’ Foods

Chef Fatback

Chef Barry “Fatback” Walker of Columbia’s Mac's on Main shows you how to cook up a fresh batch of collard greens in smoked turkey broth that will tantalize your taste buds without taxing your time.

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Columbia’s Mac's on Main

The home of jazz, blues, barbeque and world-famous peach cobbler, Mac's on Main is Columbia's premier Jazz & Blues eatery on Main Street. It's the brainchild of Susan "Ms. Mac" Walker and the home of Fatback & the Groove Band. Meet Chef Fatback and make plans to enjoy Columbia’s Mac's on Main.

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Charleston Food and Wine Festival
February 28, 2008 - March 2, 2008

A food and wine event like no other, the Charleston Food and Wine Festival features Southern traditions intertwined with the art and culinary tastes of top chefs from the West Coast, New England, France and Switzerland. Enjoy Lowcountry foods, heritage and recipes at one of 50+ events throughout the weekend.

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Lowcountry Oyster Festival
January 27, 2008, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

When two tractor-trailers full of oysters roll onto the grounds at Boone Hall Plantation, the Annual Lowcountry Oyster Festival kicks off. Held by the Greater Charleston Restaurant Association, the “Oyster Fest” features a food court, children’s area and a main stage with contests and live entertainment.

Shucks, Let’s Go

SC’s Firefly Vodka

In April 2006, FireFly, the Lowcountry’s first official and only vodka and the world’s only muscadine wine flavored vodka was introduced. Firefly Vodka innovator, Scott Newitt of Coastal Wine, shows us how to create designer drinks with SC’s premium Southern Flavored Sipping Vodka. Ask for “The Vodka with a Southern Accent” on your next visit to the Palmetto State.

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John Martin Taylor is best known for his ‘Hoppin John’ cookbooks, culinary expertise and his stone-ground grits and cornmeal. Check out his blog and order ‘Hoppin' John’ cookbooks and products online.

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