Matthew Raiford's Gullah Geechee Gospel – Garden & Gun
Age: 53 Home Base: Brunswick, Georgia Known For: A James Beard Award semifinalist at his former restaurant, the Farmer & the Larder, Raiford will release his first cookbook this May, Bress ’n’ Nyam, a chronicle of Gullah Geechee tradition and his family farm. Farming’s in his blood: “My family’s farmland goes back to 1874, when Jupiter Gilliard, my great-great-great-grandfather, purchased 476 acres for nine dollars in taxes. We’re now farming cover crops like rye, red clover, hibiscus, sugarcane, rice, and Sea Island red field peas.” Kitchen inspiration: “My father didn’t...
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