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Friday, October 12th: Lee Bros. Launch for Local
Join us for a seated, multicourse dinner inside South Carolina’s first local food hub, GrowFood Carolina, hosted by Matt and Ted, who will be improvising with farm-fresh ingredients from the cooler and offering a sneak preview of recipes from their forthcoming “Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen” cookbook. The night begins with a special cocktail and the menu will celebrate the local produce sold at the hub–in treatments both classic and irreverent… Everything served this special evening will be packed with South Carolina flavor!

GrowFood Carolina Warehouse 990 Morrison Drive, Charleston, SC 29403
Tickets: $60 for QOL Members/ $80 Non-Members Contact Amanda Cole at amandac@scccl.org or (843) 725-2062 for information and tickets.
Time: 7pm – 10pm

http://growfoodcarolina.com/news-events/

Today, the Huffington Post writer Rebecca Orchant named our cookbook Simple Fresh Southern their “Editor’s Obsession.” Check out Rebecca’s article and get excited to make Radish Butter, one of more than 100 recipes in the book with simple, fresh, southern spirit. Thanks, Rebecca, and thanks, HuffPo!

We are super excited and honored that the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance has invited us to speak at the Kick-Off Luncheon for their annual Trade Show. We’ll be introducing three amazing fiction writers—Janis Owens, Michael Morris, and Stephanie McAfee—and we’ll also be talking about our forthcoming book, The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen. We are beyond grateful to the independent booksellers in the South; if you’ve ever enjoyed a recipe in a magazine or in any of our books, you owe it to them—the southern indies were the ones who spread great word-of-mouth and hand-sold our first cookbook back when nobody would listen!

Tomorrow, July 11, 2012, from 2pm – 3pm EST, we’ll be answering any questions you may have about our recent Trave+Leisure feature about the Blue Ridge Parkway, as well as any other questions you may have about food-focused touring around the South! For details, click here

Two lanes, 469 miles, and countless reasons to stop and eat: Matt and Ted travel the iconic Blue Ridge Parkway to uncover a vibrant Southern food movement.

Hot off the presses, the Travel + Leisure July issue includes our feature on a dream Blue Ridge Parkway food sojourn we took in a Porsche Panamera Turbo. Amazing mountaintop views and delicious eats (and drinks)! Video will be posted on T+L blog soon.

A City Farmer, A Chef, and A Host is a New York City dine-around evening to benefit Just Food and The Sylvia Center. On Tuesday, July 24, 2012, fourteen concurrent dinners, each prepared by a top New York chef using produce from an urban farm and hosted in a private home, will bring together food enthusiasts, taste-makers and philanthropists for a common cause. Assorted talkers–Leonard Lopate, the Lee Bros., James Frey, Dar Williams, Dorie Greenspan, to name a few–will co-host in the exquisite homes of some notable New Yorkers.

Chefs include Bill Telepan, David Waltuck, Andrew Carmellini, Dan Kluger, Laurent Gras, Peter Hoffman and many more! A rare opportunity!

Co-sponsored by Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn

Event Details
Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Number of Dinner Locations: 14
Number of Dinner Guests: 12-25 per location
Dinner Locations: Private homes and meaningful food spaces
Dinner Preferences: Guests choose their top three preferences when purchasing a ticket. Event organizers will do their best to match guests to their top dinner choice.
Tickets: $500 per person:
http://acityfarmerachefandahost.eventbrite.com/
More info:
http://cityfarmerchefhost.org/

Follow our collected pins and musings in different categories on Pinterest. It’s heavy on Charleston-related material but also a source for articles we’ve written on subjects from travel to wine.
http://pinterest.com/TheLeeBros

We’re so excited to be returning this year to Coastal Uncorked, Myrtle Beach’s excellent wine and food festival. We’ll be judging the Chef’s Challenge on Sunday night 4/29/12 of the festival. It’s an awesome tasting event that’s also an “Iron Chef”-style competition featuring some of the area’s best restaurant chefs. We had a blast last year, and the food was phenomenal. And this year, we’re especially excited to be joined at the Judges Table by James Beard Best Chef Southeast Award Winner Louis Osteen! Click here for details.

Check out Carolina Gold Rice collection we put together, on sale today @OpenSky.com Everything you need to rock the tastiest, most authentic Lowcountry-style rice!
In the collection is:

– real South Carolina-grown Carolina Gold, the original variety of rice first brought to Charleston from Madagascar in the late 1600s

– a Charleston rice spoon, by Reed & Barton, a serving spoon whose grand proportions (it’s huge!) make it ideal for presenting with your rice

– a real Charleston-style rice steamer, for gently cooking your rice without encouraging stickiness (and without risking a messy bubble-over!)

These items can be purchased in any number of combinations.

Joining OpenSky.com is free. Choose the curators you wish to follow–a few others include Tom Colicchio, Hugh Acheson, Lidia Bastianich, Rick Bayless and Dorie Greenspan. Click here to go to the site and to browse our collection:
http://tinyurl.com/7r6tgdw