Explore the sights, sounds and flavors only found in one place: Charleston, South Carolina.
Of the six categories Conde Nast Traveler readers use to rank their favorite cities in the magazine’s annual survey, one is particularly personal. While evaluating lodging, restaurants and shopping is pretty straight forward, friendliness is based entirely on real people’s first hand experience with our destination. We know there are untold heroes working in our hospitality community. [...]
From the Marion Square Farmers’ Market this morning: These vibrant spears of tender asparagus will be wrapped in prosciutto and served picnic-style tomorrow at Middleton Place during the Spoleto Festival USA finale concert, along with some ripe melon, pickled okra, goat cheese with fig preserves, sweet corn and heirloom tomatoes—all purchased this morning at the farmers’ market. [...]
Salty, slurpy, and quick to slide down your throat, the oyster is not only a favorite Lowcountry food, it is a social institution. Every January, thousands of enthusiastic shuckers converge upon Boone Hall, where two tractor trailers full of the shelled morsels tally up to the World’s Largest Oyster Roast. Sales of croaker sacks, cinderblocks [...]