In The Kitchen
Feast on Toronto’s Multicultural Cuisine
By Dwight Brown Discover a vibrant international food scene in a city that’s home to 230 different nationalities. There are countless reasons to visit the very multicultural city of Toronto, the largest city in Canada. Movie lovers flock to the Toronto International Film Festival. Sightseers explore CN Tower. Tourists pedal around town on Toronto Bicycle Tours. Romantics head to Niagara Falls. And, history…
Read MoreCofC Alum Sweetens Summerville With New Shop
By Erin Perkins Only three weeks into doing business in downtown Summerville, South Carolina, Danetra Richardson ’12 has the Lowcountry hooked on macarons, brownies and Nutella-stuffed cookies from her shop Swank Desserts. The pastry chef, however, has been working on this dream for much longer. Richardson started Swank Desserts as an online business after graduating…
Read MoreDistrict’s partnership with Lowcountry Food Bank addresses needs of at-risk students
Since 2006, the Charleston County School District (CCSD) has partnered with the Lowcountry Food Bank (LCFB) to serve at-risk students through a program called BackPack Buddies Program. The mission is to meet the needs of children at risk of hunger or homelessness under the McKinney-Vento Act by providing them with nutritious and easy-to-prepare food to…
Read More10 Black-Owned Businesses Dealing with Sweet Treats
There is no better time like the holidays to enjoy decadent desserts and other delicious baked goods as family and friends come together for memorable meals bidding the past year adieu and welcoming the next. Here’s a quick list of some of the black-owned businesses to put on your radar to turn to for that…
Read MoreKahuna Poke Bar Announces Fundraiser To Support My Sister’s House
Kahuna Poke Restaurant, a locally owned and operated small restaurant located in Mount Pleasant, is hosting its first inaugural fundraiser, Sushi-thon for My Sister’s House. The event will be held from November 21 to January 1. This initiative hopes to raise awareness and funds for resources as well as donate a match for meals to provide…
Read MoreHost A Stress-Free Thanksgiving with 9 Top Tips from Food Influencer Rosalynn Daniels and Work Sharp Culinary
It’s already been a long day at the oven (you’ve been up for hours), the guests are arriving and you’re still cooking. As you greet your guests, you hope that nothing is burning on the stove and wonder if you’ll have the time to enjoy your company and the meal you’ve worked so hard to…
Read MoreWest Ashley High partners with Schwan’s Chef Collective
From October 8–11, the Schwan’s Company partnered with West Ashley High School (WAHS) for the fourth Schwan’s Chef Collective K-12 Kitchen Collaborative. The program encourages more students to eat in school cafeterias; Schwan’s has previously worked with schools in Wayzata, MN, Albuquerque, NM, and Houston, TX. This is the first time they collaborated with…
Read MoreMonthly Meetup Inspires Plant-Based Pop-Up
Since March, black creatives, entrepreneurs, and millennials have joined together for Convened: The Dropping Pin Meetup. The monthly meetings, led by Dropping Pin’s founder David White, Jr., are now a popular minority-based networking event and it recently inspired a plant-based pop-up. The Dropping Pin has been an online platform to inspire millennials of color to travel…
Read MoreSmithfield Foods Supports Disaster-Relief Efforts in the Carolinas Following Hurricane Dorian
Smithfield Foods, Inc. is donating 80,000 pounds of protein to Food Bank of the Albemarle, Lowcountry Food Bank, and Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina to support ongoing recovery efforts in the Carolinas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. The donation, equivalent to more than 320,000 servings, is part of Smithfield’s signature hunger-relief initiative, Helping Hungry Homes®, and will…
Read MoreNew Website Helps Diners Find Black-Owned Restaurants
By Lisa Fitch, Our Weekly News Los Angeles Contributor More than 2,000 Black-owned eateries are featured on the new internet-based restaurant locator eatblackowned.com, which launched June 21 intending to support Black-owned restaurants. “There’s only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: we all love great tasting food,” creator Edward L. Dillard said. “We…
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