Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
MARCH 2, 2018
Salone Pipul Dey Kohl Am “Jollof Rice”
Gulluh People Duh Call Um “Red Rice”
Our first event ever at a plantation. Were we nervous? Yes.
“Tina’s event at Magnolia was an historic occasion. It was the first time an African chef celebrated a meal of some of the best rice dishes of her home region at a former rice plantation in South Carolina. It reminds us that African captives brought more than their rice farming skills, as important as that is, they also brought their cooking tradition, the influence of which has lasted in the South Carolina low country up to the present day. So, the South Carolinian guests - both black and white - were actually tasting dishes ancestral to the distinctive Lowcountry cooking they grew up with. They were tasting the culinary past they hold in common. And that’s certainly worthy of discussion.”
-Historian Joseph Opala
