- Deb: Next stop?
A backyard dinner, Charleston style.
Digging a little deeper into Charleston's culinary heritage, I mean what, how would you describe it?
- Amethyst: Charleston's culinary heritage is a painful but beautiful story.
Charleston was created literally because of a food source, because of Carolina Gold rice.
- Deb: Right.
- Amethyst: But from that, you know you have Gullah Geechee culture.
- Deb: Yeah.
- Amethyst: Which is the most retained West African culture that you can find here in the Americas, right?
So you see that with dishes like okra soup, like red rice.
- Deb: So talk to me about the shark.
What is happening?
- Amethyst: Yeah.
I actually got some of our crab ball seasoning that we also got from the seafood market and I just threw it in here.
I'm going to kind of do my own spin on something I actually saw Edna Lewis do while she worked at Middleton Place.
She did it with scallops.
I'm gonna do it with shark meat so I can bring a little bit of this back to, to Charleston and the Lowcountry.
- Deb: Yeah.
- Amethyst: And Gullah culture specifically.
- Deb: So are we gonna grill it?
That's what we're gonna do?
Amethyst: We gonna grill 'em - Deb: Okay.
Amethyst: We gonna stew 'em and then we gonna eat 'em.
- Deb: Alright.
- Amethyst: Put a little bit of chopped scallions and some green onions.
Alright, let's drop our tomatoes in there.
All of them right in there.
Yeah.
You smell real good.
- Deb: It does smell good.
The seasoning smells insane.
You got me working hard, Amethyst.
- Amethyst: Good.
- Deb: You got me working hard.
- Amethyst: That mean the food gonna taste better.
- Deb: Oh wow.
- Amethyst: So we have here a little smothered shark with some greens.
We got our mustards, our turnips, and our collards, and some stewed down heirloom, South Carolina Lowcountry tomatoes.
- Deb: Thank you so much.
- Amethyst: You're welcome.
Well, I don't know about you, but my shark was fork tender as hell.
- Deb: Wow.
That is incredible.
- Amethyst: Pretty good.
- Deb: Oh my goodness.
- Amethyst: I be surprising myself sometime.
I ain't gonna lie.