How Gullah Legend Mrs. Emily Meggett Makes Spottail Bass Stuffed With Parsley Rice - Rooted

[@kas3583]

Beautiful!! I'm from Charleston, Johns Island to be exact. This woman reminds me of my grandmother ❤and that's the food I grew up on. I'm a proud Gullah Geechee!!!!!!

[@BiggestApple]

Miss Emily is a treasure. Was lucky enough to feast upon her cooking many summers when I was growing up.

[@justinmohammed4107]

So heartening to see how a simple thing like Moruga hill rice, that we grew up with here in Trinidad, can connects us because of years and years of history.

[@fitawrarifitness6842]

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[@YT4Me57]

Im New York born and raised but grew up eating my Georgia born grandmother's red rice. It was my favorite way to eat rice. Many years after her death, I had opportunity to sample Jollof rice and was amazed at the similarities. It was then I realized the connection.

[@EricFortuneJr.]

I am so blessed to still be able to sit and talk with my 92 year old grandmother and her sisters and brother. I always enjoy their stories, some are sad, others are funny, but they always speak the truth. Jambalaya and fish are still big in my house. I don’t do fast food, McDonald’s or any of that mess. I grew up on home cooking, everything from jambalaya to blackberry dumplings to country ham, grits and red eye gravy. I’ve been cooking since I was 8 years old.

[@debbiemarquis3231]

Thank you Eater for this installation..I'm from Trinidad and it's really nice to see our creole rice make it back to the place where some of our ancestors came from...this was really a blessing 👼🙏❤️

[@fitawrarifitness6842]

Our legacy kzbin.info/www/bejne/eInVdWqVjppksKM

[@sholamali]

Lucas being thoughtful, respectful and humble as per usual. One of the best food hosts out there!

[@bunnabet9395]

She's such a treasure. And loved the words in her prayer!

[@dennistaylor6342]

I’m proud of my Geechee roots✊🏾.

[@ix8750]

Oh my goodness that meal was legendary... I would be so thankful to my bones to meet that lady and try her cooking. She had such a warm vibe.

[@FinalFr0ntier]

She's awesome and I'm starving now. Also who here remembers "Gullah Gullah Island"? Loved that show.

[@daniellescott477]

My kids watched Gullah Gullah Island when they were little. My son always wanted to go. I should have listened 🤗

[@aneysamatthews3516]

Loved it and my kids did too

[@dominiqueetienne8529]

⁹oooo

[@Justafox305]

@@aneysamatthews3516 Simeon Daise from Gullah Gullah island is now on the tv show “all American” he’s all grown up

[@cmenowOn]

🙏🏾 I’d do anything to get a seat at that table...

[@paulwall3269]

Me too

[@kennedybarnes9485]

I would love a seat at the table as well

[@onamission4562]

Me too

[@ADDerall509]

Eater putting in work, keep it up. Lucas is always a good host. Hope there is alot more to come.

[@bayswampkennels6386]

Love this video! And it is so true about how cooking in this style is fading away due to parents not passing these recipes to their kids. I'm only 31 but not never once was asked as a kid what I wanted for supper was just called when it was ready and ate it with no complaints. People are always looking for complicated was to fix the big mess our world is in but in fact it's only simple ways we have strayed from that put us where we are. We need more family time with respect for others ourselves and our resources and more thanks for what we have and not to complain about what we don't have. We need to set down as a family to break bread with the whole household present as a family without a TV blaring and more thanks to our Father in heaven.

[@gertrudebuck366]

What a Beautiful and Legendary Grandmother He Has! I could not believe that she is ninety-one years young and still cooking like that! What A Blessing!!

[@s1r3n1971]

“Our grandparents taught us to love and share” So much power in these words because slaves spoke them. We need to preserve and protect this culture, instead of fighting to remove statues and rename streets, this is where America’s black culture was birthed and remains. This is a national treasure.

[@Fari-100]

Still haffe remove dem, yes! A wha yu a talk bout, man? Dem erase mi fambly man! To this day we nuh kno all who... and "America's Black culture" IS African culture point blank. Even now dem nuh like when we emphasize say we AFRICANS! But that's the reality....

[@timotot123]

That was beautiful to watch. Nothing better than getting in the kitchen and learning from our older generation cooking techniques that have been passed down the generations. I don't usually bless the food I eat but after seeing the whole process here that was the first thing that came to my mind when the food had been presented on the table.

[@terryfrazier2661]

Thanks for keeping our culture alive.

[@AzlianaLyana]

The foods look so delicious and unique! She's very kind and genuine lady :)

[@Kingme3.0]

What a beautiful spirit to be around. She made that meal with pure love 🥰 and that rum cake😍😍 she gave knowledge and love, and that was lovely 😇 may God continue to bless her.

[@kathyerickson9402]

It's so lovely to see a host who is so clearly interested and invested in the subject.

[@prodevel]

Hope to see more of Lucas Peterson soon. He's great. This episode was really well put together. Lots of food HISTORY.

[@achannel1818]

It's interesting that their accents are similar to Caribbean accents. Really makes the link between the western black diaspora and West Africa apparent. Like how Scots in the Shetland Islands sound like they came from Norway because the viking influence on their accent.

[@atlantabrooklyngal]

Yes, I grew up in New York and many years ago, I met a lady who I thought was from the Caribbean, but she said that she was South Carolina part of the Gullah community. That was my first introduction to the culture. My uncle's girlfriend at the time called someone a "geechee," because they liked eating a lot of rice, I thought she was being mean/nasty as a little girl I didn't know her true meaning behind her statement and what she was fully trying to say. It is important that this history is past down. It would be interesting to hear a conversation between someone from the Caribbean and the Gullah/Geechee culture.

[@atlantabrooklyngal]

@Jay Aleem its roots in the south period, because of the great migration to the north.

[@vocalygiftd]

Precisely! Makes me excited when other cultures see our connecting influences respectfully in similarity. 💛

[@vocalygiftd]

@Jay Aleem great observation! specifically in reference to South Carolina-Georgia Gullah/Geechee’s. I’m of South Carolina Gullah descent, my grandfather had to rapidly move to Florida but all his siblings either stayed in the low country (2 of them) or moved to NY (5 of them). And Idk why yet either besides, relocating as far from the south as they could.

[@hello_04]

@@vocalygiftd Mind you, everyone from South Carolina isn’t Gullah. Everyone in South Carolina isn’t from this isolated sea island culture . They may be familiar with Gullah people but not necessarily Gullah themselves. Kind of like someone can from near Lancaster county in Pennsylvania but not be Amish themselves. Everyone in South Carolina...even other descendants of American slavery, isn’t Gullah and doesn’t even speak in this dialect. Even as close as Beaufort is to Burton the accent changes. Just saying. With this new attention everyone is now claiming Gullah for themselves, but when I was growing up we were teased hard for how we ate and talked etc. calling someone Geechee up north was used as an insult. People need to ACTUALLY do the research on their family trees thoroughly before claiming Gullah. They could be missing out on their own treasure of an ADOS history by jumping on whats NOW shiny and exotic.

[@THAQUEENB82]

This has heighten my love of cooking again. The history and stories told warms my heart.

[@mnamous9823]

What a treasure Miss Emily is! I love this type of content; could watch it all day. More, please!

[@southernfriedpeaches]

This rich culture makes my heart sing as an Afro American woman. 😍

[@bksson2818]

Mrs. Meggett is the queen, I love her spirit

[@lottiespence2614]

That community sure is lucky to have this AMAZING woman. Food look like my grandmother (RIP)cooked it. Peace

[@chefrere42]

Yes sir...as soon as I saw gullah and Carolina...I clicked super fast...SC best state in the nation!

[@mymusicpaws]

Even though I'm not a christian I can respect that they didn't cut out Ms Emily's grace

[@Dev-zd3rx]

Idk y but when she prayed, I felt like I was there lol

[@southernfriedpeaches]

@@Dev-zd3rx me too 😂 closed my eyes and everything like I was about to partake 😂

[@Gullahbae-xm6ms]

May this Gullah Geechee queen rest in peace! 🖤💙💚💛

[@reginaeiland9358]

I'm so proud of her. I brought her cookbook. Priceless

[@mizshirlee2238]

Me too. It's my favorite, Savannah is my home😊

[@reginaeiland9358]

@@mizshirlee2238 I'm from S.C. myself. 2 hrs from Charleston. I have family in Charleston, some direct Gullah. I live in PA now, and it still hits me all the foods I grew up on that I took for granted. You always think your Mom and GMom will be there to make your favs. But at last we treasures like this to keep the train going

[@camedm58171]

Reminds me of growing up on Edisto Island, Miss Emily is a legend

[@kimjenkins4332]

My family from edisto too

[@cookingwithhelenasspiceshop]

I wish she had a cookbook, would love to make these for my family. We love traditional southern food.

[@Duminique1]

@cooking with Helena’s Spice Soup. She has a cookbook.

[@cathyaquilina5310]

What a beautiful meal and such a gracious sharing woman. A true matriarch!

[@CAPT4INSL0W]

so lucky to have lucas writing for my "town paper" now with his thoughtfulness

[@wandahenry6749]

Thank You for bringing comfort to those who miss family dinners, all our old family is gone who can Burn😃

[@gertrudebuck366]

Just like Miss Emily said. “If people would Share and Care and Love! What A Beautiful World It Would Be!”

[@sporty_n_trina3503]

I’m born and raised on st.Helena island South Carolina.....my wifey is from Edisto Island...no place like the lowcountry!!!💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[@pla4825]

I love watching them sit down and eat a beautiful meal

[@rudyoviedo9258]

This just opened my eyes to something I was not aware of , I know I’m not alone … man I want that fish keep this cuisine alive BJ

[@daniellescott477]

What we all need to realize, is that it was a boat stop that separates us. But, our culture from food, spirituality and religion, music, dance, hair and dress, we were all able to keep some of it with us., No matter where we landed. What we should do is allow these things to bring us back together! ♥️💯

[@acampb724]

I totally agree

[@Fari-100]

Yeah man, a dat me say! 😁

[@tbmctbmc1915]

Chef BJ is the new GOAT. I would love to eat a plate of his food bro.

[@thomasdrew1159]

This was great. Please do more on Gullah cuisine. These type of episodes and the in depth restaurant ones are my favorite on channel

[@vocalygiftd]

So amazing to watch! I love that my culture is being highlighted and WI GULLAH/GEECHEE get to tell our own narrative FINALLY! Dat boi BJ fie! 🔥💛 wi binyah

[@fitawrarifitness6842]

One love kzbin.info/www/bejne/eInVdWqVjppksKM

[@brihaha4135]

This blessed me and makes me miss home! Thanks BJ and Mrs. Emily!!!

[@suzannebenz8928]

Bravo! The food, the fellowship and the culture is warm and inviting!

[@Pieterseboy]

i almosted got in my car and drove up there and then i realised... i'm in south africa

[@mizzpoetrics]

😂😂😂 I know, the food is calling us!

[@sebitiouskhomotso5348]

Where in south africa?

[@yinka321]

🤣😂😂🙌🏾

[@miattra]

LOL

[@daniellescott477]

😂😂😂😂😂I feel you but I'm in MA, USA!!!! I can smell it, the food!

[@ianboltron]

Great to see Lucas doing his thing. Such a great host.

[@completejumble1227]

New experience to add to my bucket list: Find a way to get invited to Mrs. Meggett's for dinner! And I will happily let her boss me around the kitchen.

[@mizzpoetrics]

Yes hunny, let's go together! 😊

[@jebsmoak7505]

Amen

[@dugjay]

This is real food at it's best. Great people and good food.

[@sugabearchiraq5755]

In new learning this culture. The food looks delicious and the people seem so friendly & kind

[@sbalchan]

Ms Emily is a treasure ❤️. Thank you Lucas and the historian / chef Vijay ( sorry if I got his name wrong) for bringing these stories to us. Also as a Trinidadian I am beaming with pride because of the showcasing of our Moruga rice.

[@lang-ed3bk]

Damn that fish looks good

[@brningpyre]

Could Eater post recipes for these dishes? I would especially love one for the okra dish.

[@MelvinaSmith]

My 5th Grandfather Denmark Vesey was a very known Charlestonian Revolutionary who was slain in public square in front of his own church.

[@crazyp4549]

Wow I bought her cookbook, it’s simply amazing

[@ortem000]

That spread looks fantastic. I would love that fish recipe!

[@ants_in_my_eyes_johnson6844]

Damn I really want to eat this food ere! Wait! I was born in North Charleston so I just needs taka drive. Think I gotta hit the islands tomorrow and do that. Love living ere!

[@chilaire54]

I now regret didn't really listen to my grandmother and aunts that were geechee cuz raised in Florida by watching this made appreciate culture and gave me and understanding

[@abeg1571]

I didn’t expect to find something this special

[@aneysamatthews3516]

I want to eat and listen to the Wisdom she has to give. 💙

[@honeyasonja522]

Yes! Mrs. Emily reminds me of Auntie Dolly in Trinidad 🇹🇹 and Tobago, walk-in to some fresh frying plantains corn chowder and callaloo Amen! Blessings 💙 💙 very nice post🙌

[@adamcallahan242]

This is the type of video I love! Inspire and make me hungry!

[@happygolucky5534]

I love this series the most!!!

[@Phantom-CWD]

I believe everyone should have equality. men, women, blacks, whites, colored, etc. great video!

[@willac5]

What a beautiful episode!

[@lizasplaylist]

So awesome c: loved the stories they shared and the great food...and Lucas wasn’t half bad either being host, haha

[@dstn2bgrt]

So much love and passion went into hat meal.

[@ravengameslife9071]

I admire her!

[@MakersTeleMark]

To document that, is precious.

[@anonimai]

Man I'd kill for a bite of that fish

[@disco07]

A really good documentary statement on cultural cooking.

[@rodgreene6739]

Hilton Head Island in the house!!! Shoutout to BJ and Mrs. Meggett.

[@yadirarichadson6214]

truly enjoyed this

[@cdb88]

Thank you for the knowledge!!

[@josephiveoy4476]

She's so beautiful just love her spirit and personality 🕊️

[@Sakja]

Lucas is back!!!

[@jent6807]

Love this she reminded me of my nanna💖💖💖💖

[@b-loved7777]

Beautiful, thank you for sharing. 🌊🙏🏽💜

[@tinamariefarmer4419]

slavery breaks my heart. to my soul. im part quote ''American Indian". i can't understand why these people could ever consider they had the right to steal and kill humans. disgusting

[@olemanspirit955]

SLAVERY IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF OUR DISOBEDEINCE TO THE LAWS OF THE TORAH! DEUTERONOMY 28 ARE THE CURSES FOR DISOBEDIENCE TO THE NATION OF ISREAL. THE SO CALLED "AFRICAN AMERICANS LIVING IN THE US TODAY AND THE CARIBBEAN ARE APART OF THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL. ISRAEL IS LOCATED IN NORTHERN AFRICAN CONTINENT. REVELATION 2:9 AND 3:9 BOTH SPEAKS OF THAT THE FATHER IN HEAVEN KNOWS THE BLASPHEMY OF THOSE WHO SAY THEY ARE JEWS (current residents of Israel) AND ARE NOT: FOR THEY ARE A SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN. SHALAWAM! PEACE BE WITH YOU.

[@Fari-100]

@@olemanspirit955 yu a one bloodclaat eedyat, the whole a unu. A swallah all a dem buckra story fe blame we fe wha dem do to we. 😖 Listen yuhself, disgraceful!

[@rickykinsey4415]

@@Fari-100 teach that truth

[@Fari-100]

@@rickykinsey4415 yeah man, wan disrespect dem own ancestor to tek up some "he-brew" ting whey dem get from ol massa dem. Don't need nobody mek up culcha when fe we own more stronger, more realer den all a dat! Dem bwoy deh go hard fe cuss African & ting. Yu can see dem shout pon corner wit dem bag a foolishness 😖

[@rickykinsey4415]

@@Fari-100 teach truth reality

[@sunshinesunflowerz1647]

Ms Emily remind me of my great grandmother, Ms. Elizell.

[@handsvsfood2781]

You just know that everything was spectacular.

[@birdiesbloomz]

Would LOVE to meet this Lady. 🙏🏾

[@mizfrenchtwist]

hello ,an absolutely fantastic spread.....what a sweet lady . great share , thank you , for sharing😋😋😋😋🥰🥰🥰🥰...........

[@VettsClass]

Gullah Geechee my people Charleston SC 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿✨✨✨ I love fish stuffed with rice 🌾🍚

[@demarcusmclean3483]

Love this lady.

[@curtisthomas2670]

Fun fact: the rice varieties brought from Africa during the Slave Trade belonged to oryza glabirrema, a species of rice indigenous to Africa and a different species from Asian rice oryza sativa. Africans domesticated a different species of rice thousands of years ago, totally independent from the domestication of rice in Asia. One strain of African rice became known as Carolina Gold and was the major rice grown in the US for a couple centuries before it was overtaken by Asian strains. Another strain was red bearded upland rice, a naturally reddish strain that was grown on dry lands and hillsides and which became a subsistence crop for slaves and free blacks. This strain lost popularity as a crop during the Civil War and after in the US, but escaped slaves who joined the British Army in the War Of 1812 and were resettled in the Caribbean island of Trinidad carried the red bearded upland rice with them and it is still grown there under the name Moruga Hill Rice.

[@reginaeiland9358]

She needs her own show

[@naftalithaithi4812]

Incredible!

[@masoudahmad4348]

Im a gree that food is like a story book that bay tasting it will tell you a story,some time it contains a memorable moments or person and some time give the joyful feeling

[@yomrap6931]

The West Africans that brought their knowledge of cultivating rice to South Carolina were from modern day Liberia, called the "Grain Coast" by white folks then.

[@Fari-100]

Salone (Sierra Leone) mostly, but maybe some Liberia too. Those borders not the original anyway....

[@KelvinsKitchen]

Wow delicious stuffed fish recipe

[@eatahfood]

Love to see the similarities in Gullah and Caribbean food and culture. We have a feature on the Moruga Hill Rice on our channel.

[@jamesgoacher2433]

I was enthralled. I would love to try that Red Rice even though when I eat Rice I can easily go Hyper (high Sigar). I wish I was a better cook.

[@LM-ki5ll]

Thank you for showing this video because the last video conflating Carolina Gold with Hill Rice was beyond irksome for someone who researches and gives talks about African Foodways and the Black Atlantic.

[@patrickharper9297]

Yea that carolina moruga gold rice hill some good with peas an taters

[@curtisthomas2670]

Carolina Gold and Hill Rice are two different strains of African rice brought to the Americas during the Slave Trade. Carolina Gold which is a wetland rice became a major staple crop in the US and was the majority rice grown in the US for a couple centuries before it was replaced by Asian rice strains. Red bearded upland rice aka Hill Rice which grows on dry land was mostly grown by slaves and free blacks as a subsistence crop. Thomas Jefferson imported a large cask of it and distributed it to various parts of the South in the hope that it could replace wetland rice in mosquito and malaria prone areas, but as it required much more labour to grow and thresh it didn't catch on commercially, and fell out of use during and after the Civil War. After the War of 1812 runaway slaves who joined and served in the British Army were resettled by the British Crown in the British Caribbean colony of Trinidad in an area called Moruga in six villages named after the First to Sixth Company military units of black soldiers. They became known to the locals as Merikins. The red bearded upland rice they brought is still grown there and is known as Moruga Hill Rice.

[@dorothyvailes3447]

My Goodness, The Food Looked Delicious!

[@mayena]

9:38-9:41 according to Wikipedia etymology origins of the Gumbo is from Niger-Congo/Bantu Ubuntu/Mbundu language Ki ngombo or quinbongo (Ochinnggombo) allegedly the word for okra.

[@tammywright1600]

Look at my Granny so do the dang thing

[@rwilke3743]

Jesus Christ that icing looks so good, and I don’t even like sweets