Foodways are one of the most prevalant community-based art forms in the South. South Carolina history is strongly rooted in agriculture and food has long been an important aspect of economic and social life. From large rice plantations in the Lowcountry to family farms tucked in the hillsides of the Piedmont, food preparation was a large part of daily life. Parents taught children how to prepare vegetables and dress hogs. Different ethnic groups brought recipe variations with them when they settled throughout the state. Germans in the Midlands, French influences on the coast, and Scots-Irish in the Piedmont. More important, recipes synthesized African and Native American influences to create a wholly unique environment.
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The first annual International Brunswick Stew Cookoff, held in Richmond, VA.
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Don Quattlebaum talks about his hash recipe and how the tradition comes from people using all parts of the hog.
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Anthony Kelly of the Lower Lake Greenwood Volunteer Fire Department talks about making barbecued hash.
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Jerry Gantt discusses the recipe used for his packaged “Gantt Bros. Meat Hash.”
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Senator Drummond shows the remodeled hash house of the old Ninety Six Mill Village. Senator Drummond died on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016. Learn more at The State.com.
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William C. McDaniel, Jr. of Ninety-Six, SC recalls the roots of the famous “Ninety-Six hash.”
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Rodney Long is from a well-known family barbecue tradition from Newberry County. This tradition grew out of the Fourth of July and Labor Day barbecues his family held when Rodney was a child. These...
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South Carolina State Senator John Drummond talks about the theft of a hash pot from his hunt club. Senator Drummond died on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016. Learn more at The State.com.
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In the video, Sheep stewmaster Maxie Moore and stewmaster-in-training Johnny Hawthorne discuss passing on the sheep stew tradition. --- In the small rural town of Dundas, VA, there is a stew making...
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The Sproul Family Reunion has been held continuously since the 1800s at the site of Stiles Academy in northwest Georgia.
