The Way Home: A Celebration of Sea Islands Food and Family with over 100 Recipes

The Way Home brings a taste of the Lowcountry South home, offering flavor-packed dishes everyone will enjoy such as: She-Crab Soup Seafood Potato Salad Crabcake Benedict Smoked Pasta Salad Savory Bread Pudding Peach Dump Cake Blood Orange Salmon Smothered Chicken Low Country Spaghetti Sweet Potato Cheesecake Kardea shares her multi-generational “passed down” recipes and innovative takes on Gullah classics with home cooks everywhere. “Gullah” and “GeeChee” refer to a distinct group of African Americans living in the coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia who have preserved much of their West African language, culture, and cuisine. The Way Home is an unabashed love letter to her family’s roots, packed with dishes that combine West African herbs, spices, and grains with traditional Southern cooking. “Gullah people laid the foundation for Southern cooking. Before farm-to-table was a fad, it was what Gullah people did,” Kardea explains. “I want to show the world that soul food is not