Edisto Island matriarch and Gullah Geechee elder Emily Meggett has received a mountain of publicity upon the release of her new book Gullah Geechee Home Cooking, published by Abrams on April 26. The New York Times ran an extensive and illuminating profile on her this week, while Eater and Food & Wine have just named her book to its best of spring lists. She can be heard on recent broadcasts of WNYC’s “The Takeaway” and on The Southern Fork, and has lately been featured in The Washington Post, MarthaStewart.com, and Saveur.
