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One of the original Thirteen Colonies, South Carolina was named after England’s King Charles II (from the Latinate Carolus). Along its long border with the Atlantic lies a stretch of coastal plains, marshlands, swamps, and Sea Islands known as the Lowcountry. Here, French and West African culinary traditions came together to build a cuisine based on rice and the area's abundant seafood. Frogmore stew and shrimp-and-grits, for example, are culinary creations credited to African-Americans known as the Gullah. If you use words like "goober" (for peanut) and "gumbo," you're speaking a bit of Gullah. South Carolina’s Lowcountry also stands out as the first place where tea was successfully grown in the United States. Today, sweet tea is practically synonymous with South Carolina hospitality. Barbeque is big throughout the South, and in the Carolinas it often means pulled pork shoulder, cooked long and low over flavor-forging wood smoke. In South Carolina, mustard is a common base for tangy barbecue sauces. Georgia may be called the Peach State, but South Carolina actually produces more of these sweet, juicy stone fruits.
 

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MMMMM... Brownies

Reviewed on May 7, 2008 by jesi
These were delicious, i followed the recipe exactly, they were very easy to make, they were good and fudgy, some other brownie recipes on this site are more like cake, if i wanted to make a cake i would make one! but these were perfect, my husband raved about them. thank you for the recipe!
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Conchas (Mexican Sweet Bread)

Reviewed on May 6, 2008 by EMMA37
Very sweet and very yummy! I sent these to a spanish/english class my husband helps out with and they were gone, gone, gone! :-) I made the dough in the bread machine and the topping by hand. Excellent!!!!! My kids asked me to make them again.....soon! Thanks for the recipe!
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Roasted New Red Potatoes

Reviewed on May 6, 2008 by Kim
These were great! Olive oil is too expensive for our budget right now so I just melted a stick of unsalted REAL butter in a bowl and coated the potatoes with it. It worked just fine. I also quartered the potatoes to make for easier serving and eating. And my oven never would crisp them so I had to turn it to broil and stir the potatoes every few minutes. It worked like a charm. Don't skip the sea salt, 'tis what makes 'em! :)
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