Emily Meggett has chosen Abrams to publish her cookbook on the history, food, and culture of the Gullah Geechee people of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. Meggett, a Gullah elder and culinary matriarch of South Carolina’s Edisto Island, has helped preserve the traditions, language, and foodways of her community’s West African ancestors. Her cookbook will feature some 150 recipes representing the heart of Low Country cuisine, including stuffed shad with parsley rice, deviled crab, okra soup, broiled quail, hoppin' john, and sour cream cake.
