Lowcountry cuisine

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Lowcountry cuisine is the cooking traditionally associated with the South Carolina Lowcountry and the Georgia coast. While it shares features with Southern cooking, its geography, economics, demographics, and culture pushed its culinary identity in a different direction from regions above the fall line. With its rich diversity of seafood from the coastal estuaries, its concentration of wealth in Charleston and Savannah, and a vibrant Caribbean cuisine and African cuisine influence, Lowcountry cooking has strong parallels with New Orleans and Cajun cuisine.

Region

Side of the Hominy Grill in Charleston, South Carolina

The lowcountry includes the coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia. There is a difference of opinion as to what exactly the South Carolina Lowcountry encompasses. The term is most frequently used to describe the coastal area of South Carolina that stretches from Pawleys Island, South Carolina to the confluence of the Savannah River at the Georgia state line. More generous accounts argue that the region extends further north and west, including all of the Atlantic coastal plain of South Carolina and Georgia. The geography is a critical factor in distinguishing the region's culinary identity from interior areas of the South. The rich estuary system provides an abundance of shrimp, fish, crabs, and oysters that were not available to non-coastal regions prior to refrigeration. The marshlands of South Carolina also proved conducive to growing rice, and that grain became a major part of the everyday diet. It is very similar to the Tidewater region of Virginia and coastal North Carolina as well.

Foods that are traditionally part of Lowcountry cuisine

Appetizers, soups, and salads

Benne-Oyster Soup
Cooter Soup (Turtle Soup)
She-crab soup
Sweet Potato & Crab Soup
Gumbo (Okra Soup)
Brunswick Stew

Meat and seafood

Catfish stew
Lowcountry Boil
Country Captain
Frogmore Stew
Shrimp and Grits
Shrimp Kedgeree
Oyster Roast
Crab cake

Rice

Charleston Red Rice
Perlau or chicken bog
Salmon and Rice

Sides

Hoppin' John

References

Taylor, John Martin. Hoppin'John's Lowcountry Cooking. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
The Junior League of Charleston. Charleston Receipts. Wimmer Brothers, 1993.

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