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Garden & Gun Best Southern Cookbooks pick * Forbes Best New Cookbooks For Travelers pick * 2021 Gourmond International Cookbook Award Finalist From the influence of 1920s fashion on asparagus growers to an heirloom watermelon lost and found, Taste the State abounds with surprising stories from South Carolina's singularly rich food tradition. Here, Kevin Mitchell and David S. Shields present engaging profiles of eighty-two of the state's most distinctive ingredients, such as Carolina Gold rice, Sea Island White Flint corn, and the cone-shaped Charleston Wakefield cabbage, and signature dishes, such as shrimp and grits, chicken bog, okra soup, Frogmore stew, and crab rice. These portraits, illustrated with original photographs and historical drawings, provide origin stories and tales of kitchen creativity and agricultural innovation; historical "e;receipts"e; and modern recipes, including Chef Mitchell's distillation of traditions in Hoppin' John fritters, okra and crab stew, and more.Because Carolina cookery combines ingredients and cooking techniques of three greatly divergent cultural traditions, there is more than a little novelty and variety in the food. In Taste the State Mitchell and Shields celebrate the contributions of Native Americans (hominy grits, squashes, and beans), the Gullah Geechee (field peas, okra, guinea squash, rice, and sorghum), and European settlers (garden vegetables, grains, pigs, and cattle) in the mixture of ingredients and techniques that would become Carolina cooking. They also explore the specialties of every region-the famous rice and seafood dishes of the lowcountry; the Pee Dee's catfish and pinebark stews; the smothered cabbage, pumpkin chips, and mustard-based barbecue of the Dutch Fork and Orangeburg; the red chicken stew of the midlands; and the chestnuts, chinquapins, and corn bread recipes of mountain upstate.Taste the State presents the cultural histories of native ingredients and showcases the evolution of the dishes and the variety of preparations that have emerged. Here you will find true Carolina cooking in all of its cultural depth, historical vividness, and sumptuous splendor-from the plain home cooking of sweet potato pone to Lady Baltimore cake worthy of a Charleston society banquet.

The presence of African influence and tradition in the Americas has long been recognized in art, music, language, agriculture, and religion. T. J. Desch-Obi explores another cultural continuity that is as old as eighteenth-century slave settlements in South America and as contemporary as hip-hop culture. In this thorough survey of the history of African martial arts techniques, Desch-Obi maps the translation of numerous physical combat techniques across three continents and several centuries to illustrate how these practices evolved over time and are still recognizable in American culture today. Some of these art traditions were part of African military training while others were for self-defense and spiritual discipline.Grounded in historical and cultural anthropological methodologies, Desch-Obi's investigation traces the influence of well-delineated African traditions on long-observed but misunderstood African and African American cultural activities in North America, Brazil, and the Caribbean. He links the Brazilian martial art capoeira to reports of slave activities recorded in colonial and antebellum North America. Likewise Desch-Obi connects images of the kalenda African stick-fighting techniques to the Haitian Revolution. Throughout the study Desch-Obi examines the ties between physical mastery of these arts and changing perceptions of honor.Including forty-five illustrations, this rich history of the arrival and dissemination of African martial arts in the Atlantic world offers a new vantage for furthering our understanding of the powerful influence of enslaved populations on our collective social history.

Martin R. Delany (1812-1885) was one of the leading and most influential Black activists and nationalists in American history. This book reveals and analyses Delany's contributions to debates and discourses about strategies for elevating Black people and improving race relations in the nineteenth century.

This chronicle of one of the South's most renowned cities recounts Charleston's role in such important events as the American Revolution, secession and the Civil War. The narrative is brought to life with anecdotes and passages from diaries and letters.

Beyond the statistics, Sharks in the Shallows offers a history of shark-human interactions and an introduction to the world of shark attacks. With a better understanding of sharks' responses to their environment, Clay Creswell hopes people will develop a greater appreciation of the invaluable role sharks play in our marine environment.

Some Southern cooks keep their prized family recipes under lock and key, but not Mary Martha Greene. Why? She says few things can truly be kept secret in the South and recipes, like cheese biscuits, are meant to be shared. That's why she's the "e;Cheese Biscuit Queen."e; So many stories could be written about Greene's Aunt Mimi's cheese biscuits-the countries they visited, and the lies, half-truths, cheating, and conniving of small children (not to mention grown adults) to get them. For Greene, who inherited the title of Cheese Biscuit Queen-and the recipe-from her aunt, making the biscuits and continuing to share Aunt Mimi's recipe keeps her love and legacy alive. In The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All, Greene, a South Carolinian and former lobbyist, pairs more than one hundred tried-and-true recipes for dishes like country ham scones, Frogmore stew dip, shrimp and corn pie, and lemon pound cake with stories from her corner of the South. The book opens with the famous cheese biscuit recipe (complete with family secrets), and the pages that follow brim with fabulous characters, antic-filled anecdotes, and recipes so good they might just call for a change in State House rules (true story). With new ideas for the consummate entertainer, helpful tips for less experienced cooks, and stories to make even the grumpiest legislator laugh, The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All has a place in every kitchen. Great food leads to great memories, and with Mary Martha Greene by your side, even everyday meals can become memorable occasions.

The South Carolina State House grounds are a work in progress-a cultural landscape of human-built and natural components connected physically, conceptually, and aesthetically. As public property, the grounds should represent and welcome everyone in the state. While it is a beautiful space, it is not neutral. Over the past two centuries, various groups have jostled for political and cultural power, and the winners have used the grounds to assert their authority and broadcast political positions on the state's most visible stage. These struggles have resulted in a perpetually evolving space.In The South Carolina State House Grounds, the first comprehensive narrative of this important site at the heart of the Palmetto State, Lydia Mattice Brandt details the history of the state capitol and its setting-including the national, state, and local histories enshrined in its monuments-from 1787 to the present. Brandt argues that generations of private citizens and elected officials, who recognized the power of erecting public monuments and buildings that recall certain versions of history, have consciously shaped this highly charged, visible, and public place to assert authority over both the past and present. By recounting the intentions behind each element in the landscape, this guidebook considers how South Carolinians have used this place as a site of storytelling and mythmaking.The South Carolina State House Grounds, a chronological history of the state's grandest public space, includes more than sixty illustrations that track the site's transformation over more than two centuries. Brandt chronicles the events that occurred in and around its buildings, the stories of the people memorialized in the grounds' monuments, and the histories of the monuments themselves.

Offers a chronology of landmark dates and events in South Carolina's recorded history. Unique to this volume are nearly thirty additional years of notable events and important updates to material covered in earlier editions. Previously chronicled periods have been updated using a more contemporary view of race, gender, and other social issues.

As the Democratic governor of South Carolina during the height of the civil rights movement, Robert E McNair faced the task of leading the state through the dismantling of its pervasive Jim Crow culture. This work is a biography of this remarkable statesman, as well as a history of the tumultuous times in which he governed.

Women have played a vital role in shaping the course of South Carolina. From organisers to educators, from medical professionals to civic leaders, from politicians to cultural icons, the entries in 101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina shed light on the varied contributions women have made within the state and beyond.

Examines the origins and rhetorical methods of five civil rights sit-ins of 1960. The book demonstrates how we can read the sit-ins by using diverse rhetorical lenses as persuasive conflicts in which participants deployed arguments and actions to change segregated communities and the attitudes, traditions, and policies that maintained segregation.

The South Carolina Historical Marker Program has approved the installation of more than 1,700 interpretive plaques, each highlighting how places both grand and unassuming have played important roles in the history of the state. This volume includes a concise history of the program and an overview of the marker application process.

Depicts the long presence and profound influence people of African descent have had on the Palmetto State. Each entry offers a brief description of an individual with ties to South Carolina who played a significant role in the history of the state, nation, and, in some cases, world.

A writer described as a ""Jew in search of a fatherland"", the Austrian writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939) spent his life in pursuit of a national and cultural identity and his final years writing in opposition to the Third Reich. This work examines Roth's obsession with the question of belonging.

Inspired by a colleague, Wall Street attorney Donald Jelinek travelled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during a three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years. Here Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans.

Tracy Letts has emerged as one of the greatest playwrights of the twenty-first century. Understanding Tracy Letts, the first book dedicated to his writing, is an introduction to his plays and an invitation to engage more deeply with his work - both for its emotional power and cultural commentary.

When first released in 2005, The Tar Heel State was celebrated as a comprehensive contribution to North Carolina's historical record. In this revised edition Milton Ready brings the text up to date, and offers new chapters on the 1920s, World War II and the 1950s, and the confrontation between Jim Hunt and Jesse Helms.

Presents a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of the Atlantic basin during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In thirteen essays, the contributors examine the complex processes by which markets were created in the Atlantic basin and how they became integrated.

In the early 1930s Chlotilde Martin wrote a series of articles for the Charleston News and Courier documenting the transformation of the lowcountry coast as an influx of wealthy northerners began buying scores of old local plantations. This volume collects Martin's articles and augments them with photographs and historical annotations.

The first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated women writers in the world. In Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Geneva Cobb Moore explores how Morrison uses parody and pastiche, semiotics and metaphors, and allegory to portray black life in the United States, teaching untaught history to liberate Americans.In this short and accessible book, originally published as part of Moore's Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature, she covers each of Morrison's novels, from The Bluest Eye to Beloved to God Help the Child. With a new introduction and added coverage of Morrison's final book, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Bodily Evidence is essential reading for scholars, students, and readers of Morrison's novels.

The Southern Wildlife Watcher is a colorful look at thirty-six common and not-so-common animals found in the southeastern United States-from the hummingbird to the bald eagle and from the bullfrog to the bobcat. Rob Simbeck, one of the Southeast's most widely read naturalists, combines a poet's voice with a journalist's rigor in offering readers an intimate introduction to the creatures around us.Through delightful storytelling each vignette offers accessible information supported by quotes from noted naturalists and biologists. Simbeck covers habitat, diet, mating and reproduction, environmental challenges, and even folklore in outlining the lives of insects and other invertebrates, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, and fish. The Southern Wildlife Watcher is a refresher course and handbook for veteran nature lovers, an introduction for young readers, and fireplace or bedtime reading for those wanting to reflect on nature's bounty. A foreword is provided by Jim Casada, the author or editor of more than forty books and some five thousand magazine articles. He serves as editor at large for Sporting Classics magazine.

Explores J. K. Rowling's beloved best-selling series and its virtuoso reimagining of British literary traditions. Along with the seven foundational novels of the Harry Potter series, this book assesses the extraordinary range of supplementary material concerning the young wizard and his allies.

Analyses the power of civil rights sit-ins as rhetorical acts - persuasive campaigns designed to alter perceptions of apartheid social structures and to change the attitudes, laws, and policies that supported those structures.

Roberts writes stories from a wide variety of locations: "e;Night of the Hunt"e; in Hendersonville, North Carolina; "e;Return of the Bell Witch"e; in Adams, Tennessee; "e;The Shenandoah Stage"e; in New Market, Virginia; "e;Chain Gang Man"e; in Decatur, Alabama; "e;Fort Mountain"e; in Fort Mountain, Georgia; "e;Laura"e; in Campbellsville, Kentucky; "e;The Coming of the Demon"e; in Middleway, West Virginia.

The stories in this book are based upon actual events. During the course of her research into some of South Carolina's classic tales, Nancy Roberts heard accounts of happenings in the recent past and even the present day. They're all here: from the famous Gray Man of Pawleys Island who warns of coming storms to the ghost of the poor fellow whose small plane went down in the 1950s near Walhalla leaving him to forever hitchhike Highway 107. Everybody has heard of Alice of Murrells Inlet who is still looking for her lover's ring, but who haunts the house in Summerville, even now, and why?The eighteen stories told here will have you looking over your shoulder and shuddering at even a gentle breeze-so take care. Supernatural occurrences in South Carolina are not all in the past!

There is a strange beauty at the heart of every mystery, and the mystery of the Carolina Bays is an enigma that is lushly, uniquely beautiful. Featuring more than one hundred-fifty colour images, Carolina Bays takes you from an aerial perspective of these unusual bays to an on-the-ground safari.