Atlas Obscura
The Surprising History of South Carolina’s Frogmore Stew
“There’s no frogs in this stew,” says Lavern Meggett, laughing. A daughter of the Gullah Geechee matriarch and best-selling author Emily Meggett , Lavern and her siblings now continue their mother’s culinary legacy, often while hosting events on the remote island where they grew up, off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. “Here’s what my mom would say: Everybody would come over after a lon…