Frogmore Stew – Named after
a South Carolina community, you won’t find the meat of web-footed amphibians in this dish. It is a boil of shrimp, crab, sausage, potatoes and corn on the cob. Te ingredients are added to seafood stock with season- ings. Because it is rather messy, Frog- more stew often is served over a large, newspaper-covered picnic table. It’s usually eaten without utensils; nap- kins are optional but recommended. Seafood Pilau – Don’t recognize the name? Maybe you know it as perloo, perlow, perlau or pilaf. Regardless of how it is spelled or pronounced, the dish contains dry, fluffy rice with
Shem Creek is the ideal place to
buy fresh seafood in Mount Pleasant. Geechie Seafood and C.A. Magwood & Sons both are family-owned, and both have been selling their catch at the creek for decades.
seafood and vegetables as a base. If you aren’t hungry, perhaps a
beverage will satiate your seafood craving. An oyster shooter is a shot of vodka with spicy cocktail sauce and a raw oyster at the bottom of the glass. Another option for getting your hands on fresh seafood is at a local event such as the Lowcountry Oyster Festival, held at the end of January at picturesque Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant. Tere are other oyster festivals and fundraisers, shrimp boils and fish fries throughout the year. If you’re in search of fresh seafood to cook at home, look no further than Shem Creek. Several businesses on the creek sell both wholesale and retail, including Geechie Seafood, a family-run operation that has been around since the 1970s. Bubba Rector and his sons and grandsons strive to provide local residents and restaurants with fresh continued on page 79
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