The Red Dot

Ever wondered about the red dots that decorate liquor stores in South Carolina? It should be no surprise that they originated here in the Holy City, which has always been the imbibers’ state capital. Here’s the story.

An Ode to the Upstate – Summer Peach Sparkler

Here on the coast of South Carolina, we’re so enamored of our sparklingly fresh oysters, shrimp, crabs and fish, that sometimes we forget the wealth of foods that upstate South Carolina has to offer: amazing heirloom beans and tomatoes, sweet-as-honeysuckle muscadine grapes, superb roadside barbecue, and perhaps most importantly, mind-blowingly delicious peaches. True, Georgia is officially “The Peach State,” but ask any upstate farmer: they’ve all got stories of Georgia families who cross the border into South Carolina to buy peaches, because The Palmetto State’s–and particularly York County’s–peaches are sweeter.