Southern Crafted Journal
Corey Alston's Sweetgrass Baskets Were Made to Be Used
Corey Alston is a Gullah Geechee sweetgrass basket maker whose work is in the Smithsonian, and who made the largest sweetgrass basket in the world. His view is simple: these baskets were made to be...
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Seagrove Pottery & The Legacy of Ben Owen III: The Revival of Chinese Blue
A blue that was lost in 1947 and rebuilt from memory. Ben Owen III is the third Ben Owen at the wheel in Seagrove, North Carolina, still firing his grandfather's recovered Chinese Blue glaze in a f...
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Oyster Roast as Cultural Exchange
Last year I threw a Lowcountry-style oyster roasts for my friends in California. Eating oysters in California and in the Carolinas are two entirely different experiences.
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…what I really find myself daydreaming about is making a massive batch of shimp pirlou, that Lowcountry cousin to jambalaya full of shrimp and smokey sausage.
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