From the headnote to our “Garden and Gun Cocktail” (bourbon-based, with lemon-inflected watermelon rind preserves) in The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook (WW Norton, 2006), page 52:

“Charleston once had its own version of Studio 54, called the King Street Garden and Gun Club, founded by Richard Robison. A producer at the Spoleto Festival USA, the performing [...]

We’re drinking gin & tonics year round since we discovered Jack Rudy tonic syrup, made in Charleston, which takes our G&Ts to another level in terms of flavor, nuance and quality: this is old-school tonic like it was made in the prohibition era, from bitter/sweet ingredients like quinine and cane sugar, aromatic/tart ones like lemongrass [...]

Congratulations to Pamela Lusby Bailey, randomly chosen to be the winner of our apron giveaway this week!! Pamela, please call the boiledpeanuts.com headquarters at 843 720 8890 so we can arrange to get your autographed apron to you.

Everyone stay tuned for future Tee-Shirt (and apron!) Tuesdays, and thanks for playing! (And in the meantime, if [...]

The proof was in the cooking—we spent the day yesterday in the SC State Farmer’s Market exhibition kitchen in Columbia, preparing the five winning recipes from the Lee Brother Your Holiday recipe contest, where each recipe had to include at least one SC-grown ingredient (in fact, most recipes we celebrated yesterday could have been composed [...]