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Crabs, but this is shrimp butter instead of garlic butter, and then you have that play of, you know, the french influence into the cuisine right here. >> anthony: the flavors and textures and food ways of west africa are all over southern cooking. and there are few better places to see how short the line between there and here than gullah culture. >> anthony: i'm really enjoying this, i got to tell you. >> sean: this is so delicious. >> ashley: oh my goodness. >> anthony: how african is traditional gullah cooking? >> ashley: well, i think what happens is you change the location of the people, ...

>> chef mike latta's restaurant, fig, was one of the first and most important on the charleston scene. determined to source the kind of local products you used to find everywhere in the low country. as much as i'd like to illustrate that solid grounding in traditional ingredients and preparations with my order, i would not resist the soft shell crabs which are just in season, with a pasta and shaved bottarga which frankly i'd slit my best friend's throat for. wow, that looks great. >> yeah. >> that's beautiful. sweet. when you had your first plate full of proper rice, is there an instinct to b...

Between there and here than gullah culture. >> anthony: i'm really enjoying this, i got to tell you. >> sean: this is so delicious. >> ashley: oh my goodness. >> anthony: how african is traditional gullah cooking? >> ashley: well, i think what happens is you change the location of the people, but you do not change who the people were. you did not change the information that they came with, with their traditions. >> sean: if you look at the history of american food and you'll -- you'll quickly see that this is -- this is one of the first true cuisines of america. >> anthony: oh what's that? wha...

Instead of garlic butter, and then you have that play of, you know, the french influence into the cuisine right here. >> anthony: the flavors and textures and food ways of west africa are all over southern cooking. and there are few better places to see how short the line between there and here than gullah culture. >> anthony: i'm really enjoying this, i got to tell you. >> sean: this is so delicious. >> ashley: oh my goodness. >> anthony: how african is traditional gullah cooking? >> ashley: well, i think what happens is you change the location of the people, but you do not change who the peo...

What is this? it looks good. >> b.j.: we're going back to west africa. >> ashley: all right. >> anthony: soft shell crabs and conch in a decidedly west african inflected peanut stew with carolina rice, sauteed squash, and zucchini. >> anthony: oh, that's so good. >> sean: man, it's been a while since i've had conch. >> anthony: clearly, i mean, correct me if i'm wrong, sean, there's a different kind of interest in charleston that existed 20 years ago, right? is something happening here and is it a good -- what, what, what's changed? >> b.j.: i mean, it's good to have people from -- to have a m...