Southern Living's Top Cook Heads to Habersham

By Mark Shaffer
Photos courtesy of Time, Inc.

For untold decades the Southern Living Test Kitchen has churned out recipes, perfected techniques and tortured equipment all for the benefit of the magazine's dedicated readers. With the advent of the digital age anyone can go online and get step-by-step instruction on how to make creamy grits, crispy cornbread, fluffy biscuits and just about anything else you can think of that's good to eat south of the Mason Dixon. Running "The South's Most Trusted Kitchen" is one of the most coveted culinary positions in the nation and one Chef Robby Melvin approaches with a certain academic sensibility.

Two days of great music, lots of good food and plenty of local arts and crafts await attendees of Beaufort's own "Homegrown Music Fest" at USCB Center for the Arts on Friday and Saturday, June 6 and 7.

By Margaret Evans, Editor

Friday morning, Wardle Family YMCA...

Here I am again, hoping to kindle a column while burning some calories. It happens a lot. Whether I'm dealing with "weighty" issues, striding away on the elliptical machine, or going nowhere fast on the treadmill, there's something about physical exertion that causes my writer's brain to kick into high gear.

We all know what it means to "pay it back," whether it concerns a debt to a friend, rich aunt, or credit union for instance. Pay it forward means paying someone to whom you do not owe an explicit debt – a ripple effect of kindness whereby the beneficiary of a good deed repays it to others instead of to the original benefactor.