Stephanie Barna

Charleston finally lost out to Nashville in the battle for Sean Brock’s heart. The celebrity chef announced earlier this week he is cutting ties with McCrady’s, McCrady’s Tavern and Minero.

In the fine dining world, if you listen closely and promise not to quote anybody on the record, you can hear industry lifers aghast at the thought of a pitmaster winning the James Beard Foundation’s award for Best Chef Southeast, as Rodney Scott did this past Monday.

Biscuit recipes seem to require hand motions. When explaining how my grandmother made her biscuits, my mother broke it down this way: “First she put the flour in her bowl and then she added a lot of Crisco and then she did this with her hands (makes squishy fist motion), and then she took her fist and made a well in the center of the flour and poured in the buttermilk and then she did her hands like this (makes circular waving motion) and pushed in the flour until she formed a ball and then she

James London of Chubby Fish has spent 17 years working toward his goal of opening a restaurant in Charleston. If everything goes as planned, London and his partner Geoff Shyatt this week will open the doors to their counter service seafood restaurant at Bogard and Coming streets.

He grooved for years in the Snake Pit at Motown Records laying down the bassline for hit after hit, song after song. For performers like Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, the Four Tops, the Jackson 5, the Supremes, and Smokey Robinson, his bass playing was essential. You've heard him on classics like "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "Bernadette," "For Once in My Life," and countless others. But to the rest of the world, he was an uncredited studio musician — one with an unmistakable bass-playing style