Solid Grounding News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

awesomeness, and then there's charleston. the south is not important h . there are pockets of weirdness, awesomeness and then there is charleston. for some time now important things have been happening with food, a lot of them having to do with this guy. ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ >> [ music ] la la la la la what are we drinking? beer? harder stuff? what's going on? i usually go with a budweiser and a jagermeister. budweiser and jagermeister. >> what are we drinking? beer, hard stuff? what's going on? >> i usually go ...

>> anthony: the south is not a monolith. there are pockets of weirdness, awesomeness, and then there's charleston. where for some time now important things have been happening with food. a lot of them having to do with this guy. [ laughter ] ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la la ♪ >> anthony: what are we drinking? beer? we drinking harder stuff? what's g...

>> reporter: his restaurant, fig , was one of the first and most important on the charleston scene, determined to source local products that you used to find everywhere. as much as i would like to illustrate solid grounding and traditional ingredients with my order, i could not resist the soft sell crabs which are in season with pasta and shaved. which i would slit my best friends broke for. that is beautiful. >> when you had your first forkful of proper rice, was there an instinct to go out and bludgeon the rest of the world? >> i did not run up and down the streets of charleston. it was toug...

Compelled to answer? >> glenn: i'm a cuisine whore, you know? i think that culture is interactive with cuisine, as soon as you look at cuisine, you're looking at politics. you're looking at medicine. you're looking at the advanced thinking. >> anthony: i'll agree with you that there is nothing more political than food. >> glenn: you got it. >> anthony: chef mike lata's restaurant fig was one of the first and most important on the charleston scene. determined to source the kind of local products that you used to find everywhere in the low country. as much as i'd like to illustrate that solid gr...

Why do something as unwanted, meaning nobody was particularly crying out, "you know what we need? we need rice that used to taste like it did in 1837. we need grits, better grits." what called to you that you felt compelled to answer? >> glenn: i'm a cuisine whore, you know? i think that culture is interactive with cuisine, as soon as you look at cuisine, you're looking at politics. you're looking at medicine. you're looking at the advanced thinking. >> anthony: i'll agree with you that there is nothing more political than food. >> glenn: you got it. >> anthony: chef mike lata's restaurant fig...