10 Gullah / Geehie Foods You need to Try. Charleston, SC

[@amirrichaun]

It's so refreshing to see more and more people use our name and value our folk culture. We often see Louisiana Creole people (whose culture I love), but they are not the only African American sub group. I'm Virginia born, but my family is originally from Savannah, GA and I grew up eating many of these dishes.

[@napturaldiva904]

yes exactly!! This makes me so proud!

[@craigmiller4536]

I grew up on many of these dishes in NY. My Grandparents migrated from South Carolina and Georgia. I guess I am gullah Geechie . Proud of it too.

[@diamondjack-cooper5322]

I want to visit South Carolina because my family is from there and most of the people from SC are respectful and care about each other! Also I admire that black people from the south are self sufficient, meaning with or without a job or help from the government they will survive and thrive! AMEN, people up north need these skills so that we can stop panicking just because things are difficult or are different! AMEN! 🙂🙏💪😭! AMEN!

[@caffiej.risher3599]

My father is from South Carolina and my mother who is from North Carolina cooked a fresh pot of white rice Everyday!!!! We had rice with soup, with vegetables, etc., you name it rice was on the menu with every meal!!!! #Memories

[@nicolemontgomery9463]

Awwwww...you took me home to my momma...Geechee Charleston South Carolina Bred...And I grew up on EVERYTHING you mentioned..luv my people😍🙏

[@ivoryfyall4231]

Yesss Lordddd🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾❤️

[@sandraatkins2539]

I never heard my grandmother from Beaufort use the term Gullah. She always referred to herself as Geechee. Please tell my no-cooking, do-it-all sister that red rice us not soup that you make and pour over plane white rice. Much love and Blessed Easter.❤🙏

[@adventurehunter4ever]

I’m currently vacationing on the coastal side of South Carolina. Going to Charleston tonight. Would you recommend some of your Gullah restaurants?

[@JaniceEllis-bk6fn]

All of the food looks so good .

[@wendyjohnson9026]

Omg I love egg & rice- thought I just made it up. Very pleased to know it was ancestral food!

[@johnbeard2704]

I'm from Charleston but live in Oklahoma now. Thank you for the wonderful food memories! I grew up eating ALL of the things on your list. Like you, I especially love the egg rice and stewed shrimp and grits. We generally added a filet of fried whiting to the egg rice or had it with grits (as you showed with salmon). SUCH GREAT FOOD!!! Not enough people have had the great fortune to sample Lowcountry cuisine. Trust me, I've "Charleston'd up" Oklahoma City for years with great Gullah Geechie dishes from home!

[@minnitreez333]

How so🤔 would love to see those cuisines combined

[@rodrich1644]

Now I'm hungry. Very informitive. Thx

[@jerraethomas2378]

Louisiana creole dishes are similar. My grandmother cooked alot of this especially egg rice.

[@7802josh]

Yeah I was gonna say this is similar to louisiana food that's amazing alot of the seasonings probably is different

[@capital1016]

I met several people from Louisiana and I found out a lot of the food is similar but have different names.

[@TruthAndLight4995]

Yes, lots of similarities between Geechee and Creoles. My Mom was Geechee. My father Créole. I was blessed to come home and find them having a gumbo contest and I got to be the judge. Low Country Okra Gumbo wins every time. It literally tastes like love. ❤️

[@bootbredda2724]

@@TruthAndLight4995 Visited Charleston and tried some dishes from places the locals suggested and I would say the Red Rice from Hannibals had a real nice flavor, I would even give it a one up over Brown Jambalaya. I tried Gumbo but it was more a Smothered Okra in Louisiana. I tried She Crab Soup but it was ok I guess. Overall the dishes look very similar but the tastes aren't as similar and I would say Louisiana dishes are a lot bolder/stronger in flavors, a little more kick to them than Charleston's own.

[@cassandraravenell3947]

The key to egg and rice is to use day old rice and add bacon. I would cook this when I got home from middle school 😋

[@capital1016]

Growing up we always had rice in the refrigerator. I'll try adding bacon next time I cook it...Thanks!

[@KtotheG]

I like to add black pepper to it.

[@geecheemack7676]

Lima beans and rice, pork and beans and rice, cabbage and rice, greens and rice…. Yeah we do eat a lot of rice… 😂

[@evelynlloyd3002]

I grew up eating this miss home yummy south Carolina 😋

[@kirlanda4ever]

Raised in Chicago but my moms from Mississippi, we had white rice with everything, everyday. Eggs and rice or grits with salmon croquettes was/is a staple breakfast food for us. Beans(red, pinto, black eyes peas) is always served over rice. Rice with any type of chicken, pork, or fish. And rice was always prepared with just butter and salt. Sometimes we’d add sugar but rarely. That’s it. Unless we got the occasional dirty rice made with chicken livers or gravy for rice and gravy and cubes steaks(rice has nothing in it.) love me some rice.

[@born_supreme]

@@shawnpowell3270, Most people from the midwest, like Indiana, Chicago and Detroit, people are from Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama, in that order. I'm from Indianapolis, and when I tell almost everyone I knew grown up, grandparents were from Mississippi. Reason is because of the train routes during the great migration. The trains lead right to Chicago, Indianapolis and Detroit

[@ahkeekaba9735]

@@shawnpowell3270Louisiana +Ark,Memphis

[@gregorysingleton66]

I grew up in low country of S.C. until i was 20 years old. I'm now 59 & proud to say that I've eaten rice with vegetables & meat every single day of my life. 💯 percent gullah geechie.

[@jacklyneverage3881]

Yassssssss! Both grandmas from Mississippi. You nailed it!

[@jacklyneverage3881]

​@@born_supreme You are right! True facts.

[@MrsJeffersonOffically]

Dat red rice doe!!! 🤤🤤🤤

[@mzmav720]

I'm liberian yall red rice looks like jollof, we're cousins.

[@fredsandford2292]

Egg and rice I can eat every day!!

[@renaissancewoman100]

We use to eat rice and eggs. I'm Mississippi born but family on my mom's side came from South Carolina

[@anobserver9658]

Okra soup with ox tails - my favorite. Ate it all but the shellfish

[@theressamurphy2996]

Love rice...clean rice with shrimp...yummy...crab... Okra...sausages

[@realliferealtalkwithbiggs777]

“If you can’t cook this then you really can’t cook” Frfr haha 😂 ✊🏾👑🙌🏾💪🏾

[@shamika5300]

We like shrimp with grits too 😋 hoppin John too 😋

[@denisejawando6096]

Yes!! Love them both!!!

[@octaviahicks-braye9859]

Sounds delicious.

[@conspiracyjen85]

Yes there are definitely different Geechie lines because I only ever ate 3 of this list. We make red rice, rice and egg and Lima beans. Other Geechie meals from our neck of the woods was: prelou rice which has chicken instead of the crab meat. We had just okra with tomato and seasoning like onion and garlic. They would do salmon cakes with grits or even stew chicken with grits. We didn't grow up eating much seafood on my Geechie side. But bay-bay that rice. You done been like, why dey a pot of rice and we eating spaghetti 😂😂😂

[@J2U85]

This was really informative I make a lot of this stuff especially shrimp n grits canned salmon cakes n grits shrimp n okra with grits but to my knowledge I’m not Geechie but I would love to visit and eat some good food.

[@joanne8455]

Never heard of Crab rice nor egg and rice. Crab rice sounds good. You know Lima beans are my absolute favorite.😊

[@elizabethshaw734]

My dad was allergic to shark but he loved it we all loved it! It tastes very much like swordfish.

[@capital1016]

You don't find many places that sell shark. An you're right, it does taste like swordfish.

[@patdavis8718]

Great video 😊 My family from Charleston and cooks like this.

[@capital1016]

Thanks

[@ivoryfyall4231]

Mine also👍🏾👍🏾💯🙏🏾❤️ Good ol Charleston SC 😊

[@dreday3948]

Fried shark wit the rice and eggs good eatn.

[@glorialynah933]

Omg, egg & rice🤗...

[@capital1016]

That's one of the first things we learned how to cook..LOL!

[@TruthAndLight4995]

My Mom always made a brown gravy with a lot of thyme for shrimp & grits ❤️

[@KtotheG]

Yup, mine, too. She also included onions and bell pepper.

[@selenablack5900]

That food be good my grandma be cooking that food

[@stjohnbaby]

Great video,thank you!

[@NW-pt8zz]

Oprah’s soup looks a lot like succotash in New Orleans also the red rice looks like jambalaya .I swear we’re cousins. I want to try y’allfood!

[@anobserver9658]

That's OKRA, not Oprah. LOL

[@lindafickln2541]

I grew up eating this food, from my grandmother. I never knew it was from South Carolina. We were told we from Alabama. Recently we discovered my maternal grandmother's people were from a plantation in South Carolina.

[@renaissancewoman100]

Mine too! I'm from Mississippi but I was able to trace my mom's family through Alabama to South Carolina

[@yosefhoward5929]

Salmon croquettes normally LOL.. she crab soup.. Red rice.. shrimp and grits... parsley rice with grilled fish so 😋

[@rasheedamonroe454]

Yes babby

[@Naturalqueenna]

I love smothered shrimp!!

[@shaleenaabron2520]

ahhhh…..egg rice. So simple yet so satisfying. 😅great list, still eat all of these!

[@octaviahicks-braye9859]

In Maryjand we use Tulip salmon in the can as well to make salmon cakes. We don’t use fresh salmon for the salmon cakes. In other regions up North they use fresh salmon. However, many of us use, fresh cod for Maryland Cod fish cakes, and of course the blue crab meat for our famous crab off the Maryjand Eastern Shore. I feel Maryland Eastern Shore, South Carolina, Louisiana, and possibly the Mississippi Delta region have a love for fresh seafood in common.

[@robinafrica3456]

My mother’s parents were from St Helena Island and there was a pot of rice on the stove 24hrs a day and we had red rice with shrimp EVERY Friday! ***it’s pronounced sammon not salmon but it’s spelled s-a-l-m-o-n….

[@johnbeard2704]

I'm from Charleston, and years ago my husband and I moved back for several years. Every time I propose rice for dinner he says, "people in Charleston eat rice EVERY DAY!". He's not wrong...lol!

[@devakikaren]

How about showing peanut Geechee sauce, please.

[@cupcakemuffin3699]

0:40 my mother makes this except she tends to add more ingredients 1:15 I’ve never tried 😭 1:49 oh yes I’ve tried this 2:25 my dad is a pro at making Lima beans. To make it correctly it takes hours to make. After eating his Lima beans, other people Lima beans doesn’t taste the same 2:39 it’s a MUST to have it on that white rice 😋 3:03 oh I didn’t know it was that rare. It tastes so good but it always makes me 💩 3:40 family always makes this. Especially on thanksgiving 4:10 I’ve never tried that but I have tried shrimp and grits 4:45 Ive tried this at family’s homes but I never knew how to make it myself 5:20 lol what a coincidence 😂

[@comesee3]

West Africa

[@autochton-7]

Pure soul food equals soul power. Right on Brother 🤜 💩 👤.

[@ladydi7195]

Im from Louisiana and my fad eats egg and rice! When we were little we thought it was weird. Lol😂

[@terrancewalls2027]

Season tomatoes sause just like jollof Spanish and blah blah creole base sauce south Carolina native ya all good dishes cooked right

[@williammadray7818]

Real shrimp and grits are made of a rouxe made of fatback/bacon grease. Fried shark is usually available late summer and early fall it is best, especially the small bonnet head and shovel head shark caught surf fishing for whiting. Catching one of these little sharks are delicious little bonuses. The best lima bean dinner on the face of the earth is the Piggly Wiggly lunch time buffet on Friday for a to go box. Rice and eggs are best with sliced tomatoes and crrispy bacon and cheddar cheese toast with Duke's mayo on John Durst bread 🍞. It will make your tongue slap your brains out.

[@valeriegarrity5773]

Y'all still got a Piggly Wiggly! Damn, they closed all of ours here in N. Georgia. You're on my radar now, I'm excited!

[@williammadray7818]

@@valeriegarrity5773 I don't know I haven't been to Charleston in 15 years or more.

[@valeriegarrity5773]

@@williammadray7818 I know there are still a few scattered across S. Georgia, but they thinned them out up here in the mountains.

[@swannoir7949]

Honey, Menards had Duke's mayonnaise for $2.50, and I got like ten jars. That's some real good mayo right, there.

[@HighTreason007]

Salmon out da can n rice

[@elizabethshaw734]

My sister in Texas makes okra soup. I make red rice. She crab is illegal to catch where I live.

[@capital1016]

Crab is illegal to catch where you live...WHAT?? That's crazy.

[@watchingitallhere]

Female crabs are not legal in some states... cannot keep egg bearing crabs.

[@teshian]

What is the soundtrack ❤️

[@wilesdukedubose4431]

Up and down, from South Carolina to St. Augustine, Florida, the coastal cities have the dishes, plus more influences from Africa, Spain, Caribbean, etc.

[@napturaldiva904]

no we influenced spain …they didn’t influence us our foods are straight from the motherland

[@KtotheG]

I've had all of these dishes, except for the she crab soup homemade. I've tried she crab soup from various restaurants, but didn't like it.

[@denisela3403]

Probably because they put wine in it. I've only had 1 that I like.

[@nancynevels2238]

Can’t see the video feed on KZbin

[@realliferealtalkwithbiggs777]

Shark steaks 🤤

[@maxinewright6921]

Yum! Geechee Dishes!

[@duplicateify]

1. Crab Rice 2. Egg and Rice 3. Shark Steak 4. Garlic Crab 5. Lima Beans 6. Okra Soup 7. Red Rice 8. Salmon and Grits (his ass yawned) 9. She Crab Soup 10. Shrimp and Grits

[@waydetahtawy319]

🪘😋🍚 Thank you 👍🏾👍🏾

[@tanishalee1304]

I looovee succotash

[@terrancewalls2027]

In restaurants they use seafood stock from lobster tail

[@ronaldjohnson783]

To my Gullah/Geechees... The name Gullah is in the Strong's Bible dictionary as a Hebrew name on the Hebrew section 1353 (Please look this up for yourselves) . Yah'll (we) are Hebrews. Our names were not mis-pronounced as Angola or Golas although some of our ancestors were from there. Geechees are the Yamasee or Yahmassee (Yah) (Yahweh) who were also Hebrews (Maroons, Guale, Yamacraw, Creek Aborigines) Cum-by-Yah, Ah-ha-Yah, We-Ben-Yah (We Son of Yah), Hallelu-Yah

[@momodoudiabira9737]

😂🤣😂

[@KtotheG]

Yeah, the Gola origin is not true at all. I laugh at the documentaries that mention that.

[@TheSublimeLifestyle]

I cannot believe how uninformed people are in these comments lmfao. “Omg that looks just like what we cook;” yeah because it’s all from the same root.

[@lawrencewife777]

My SOUTHERN grandma and the other GRANNIES didn't know what a crab was! If you cooked something like that in their pots! They would have thrown pot and all AWAY? Those old GRANNIES didn't est or cooked that.

[@imfromhereiaintcomehere6921]

Geechee 🪶🏹🦊

[@shaypink40]

⚠️⚠️ Gullah is Africans from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 & Geechee is Americans 🇺🇸 ONLY! We are ✌️ different people!

[@janni7749]

That’s the name use to call ourselves

[@TheSublimeLifestyle]

@@janni7749 Incorrect. Gullahs are from the Carolinas and Geechies are from Georgia. They are both African American subgroups.

[@gigibeautifulmoore4574]

My grandfather was geechee and i never knew what it was