CRESCENT Books: Acclaimed Chef John Malik Trades His Kitchen for a Keyboard
One of the Upstate’s best known chefs recently made an about face. After three years as the executive chef of a busy retirement community, he now has a new title — published novelist. Many know Chef John Malik from 33 Liberty, the restaurant he owned with his wife Amy until 2008. Now, the 2008 James […]
CRESCENT Places: Grits & Groceries (Part 3)
CHARLESTON LOSING JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY HEIDI: Shame on them for losing that. When I was in school in Charleston, I think the restaurants were great because they had a great source of qualified, cheap labor with all the students at Johnson and Wales. Because we worked for $25 per day shift pay. You’d work […]
CRESCENT Things: James Beard Award Winner Ted Lee Talks About SC’s Invasion of NYC (Part 2)
EDITORIAL UPDATE: On the Monday, October 10, 2011 edition of his MSNBC program “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough asked, “What is it about the South? You can’t find a musical form in America, American pop culture, that did not start in the Deep South. Some of the greatest literature, some of, well, THE greatest cooking… […]
CRESCENT Things: James Beard Award Winner Ted Lee Talks About SC’s Invasion of NYC (Part1)
CRESCENT. It’s a magazine about South Carolina, so why would we leave the Palmetto State to go to New York to meet with a guy from Charleston at a restaurant owned by another guy from Charleston so we could eat a South Carolina breakfast? Because South Carolina is the new black. We’re taking over, and […]
WHAT’S GOING ON: CRESCENT: The Magazine Launches. Focusing on South Carolina Life, Politics, and a Little Bit in Between.
(OCTOBER 3, 2011 / GREENVILLE, SC) CRESCENT: The Magazine launched today at www.CrescentMag.com to highlight “South Carolina life, politics, and a little bit in between,” said its editor Taft Matney. A web-based magazine focused on South Carolina, CRESCENT’s offerings will come from two directions. One direction will profile famous and influential South Carolinians, South Carolina […]
