Gullah Cuisine restaurant from Charlotte Jenkins finds new life in small catering
The once prominent Mount Pleasant restaurant has found a new life as a small, private catering business that also offers history lessons and culinary classes. Charlotte Jenkins and Kesha Jenkins, a mother and daughter team from Mount Pleasant Gullah Geechee restaurant, are back in business as a small, private catering and culinary instruction company. The business, which began in 2022, involves a mix of catering and teaching the culinary history of GullahGeechee and Southern foods. The catering service for groups of 50 or less is available for bookings through GullahCuisine. Jenkins and her mother have never stopped cooking after their restaurant closed in 2014. They are promoting her mother's cookbook and selling the former restaurant's seasonings under the Gullah Tings brand at gullahtings.
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A renowned Mount Pleasant Gullah Geechee restaurant is back in business as a small, private catering and culinary instruction company.
Mother and daughter team Charlotte Jenkins and Kesha Jenkins have brought Gullah Cuisine a decade after the physical restaurant closed. The catering service for groups of 50 or less is available for bookings through GullahCuisine.org.
Kesha Jenkins, 56, said she and her mother have never stopped cooking after the business closed in 2014 and her mother entered a kind of soft retirement five years ago.
Jenkins said this version of the business involves a mix of catering and teaching the culinary history of Gullah Geechee and Southern foods. The business is also promoting her mother's cookbook that published more than a decade ago and selling the former restaurant's seasonings under the Gullah Tings brand at gullahtings.com.
Jenkins said bringing the business back in this new form began in 2022 and they never stopped doing occasional caterings for friends and family events. She said they play to produce a series of instructional videos as well.
Both her and her mother are coming fresh off an appearance at this year's Charleston Wine + Food festival where they worked with Amethyst Ganaway, a writer and prominent young Gullah Geechee chef from North Charleston. The event was part history lesson and part culinary class where they cooked conch stew for two dozen attendees.
Bookings can be scheduled at their website or via email at [email protected] or [email protected].
Ämnen: Food & Drink