The South's Lost Soul; In Charleston, All Trend, No Tradition

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 30, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

All of us were looking for American Cuisine at the Symposium on American Cuisine here. And generally we despaired of finding it.

There were some sightings-a great outdoor barbecue the first evening, and a couple of she-crab soups at a tasting arranged to show off Charleston's chefs. But they just whetted our appetites. So the talk was of where to eat, or more specifically, where to eat real Southern food.

John Taylor, who recently opened a world-class cookbook store named Hoppin' John in Charleston, is acknowledged as one of the few experts on traditional Charleston cooking. He held out ...

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