Welcome to CRAVES SOUL FOOD-

Charleston, South Carolina

2nd Apr 2009, by Craves, filed in Uncategorized, Updates
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Mother’s Day at Scott’s Grand!
Mom’s Dine FREE with family of two or more.
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 CRAVES SOUL FOOD CATERING
Heritage Cookin’ at its best:

Contact us for more detail for special occasions
1- (843) 926-0513  

Menu Varies: A DIFFERENT Prioleau Rice every time! Baked Turkey Wings or Baked/Fried/ or BBQ Chicken, local Fish or Smothered Pork Steak, Candied Yams or Sweet Potato Soufflé’, Farm Fresh Vegetables or Lima Beans, Homemade Potato Salad or Oven Baked Mac n cheese, and much, much  more to choose from.

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Oysters! Crabs! Chicken Wings! And more good food!

 

New! CRAVES Soul Food Catering:

Delivery or Pickup available of Full Service Catering
On-site and Off-site Services.

 Every Friday try a taste of CRAVES Call ahead for Take out!
We Deliver GROUPS -OFFICE/ ON-THE-JOB
Authentic cooking: Fish, Shrimp, BBQ, Fried/Baked Chicken, Soup/Stews, Rice Prioleau, Yams Fresh Vegetables, Lima Beans, Oven Baked Mac n cheese, Homemade Salads, and more…

 Everyday
Accepting New Catering Request.

We are licensed, bonded and insured and we are more than
happy to provide you with references upon request.

CRAVES Catering Request Forms
24hours /7days click here or Call 843.926.0513


We offer quality catering for all events and have menus for:
• Breakfast • Lunch • Hors d’ oeuvres • Dinner • BBQ • Boxed lunches

Any occasions…
Receptions, Offices, Reunions, Employees, Tourist, etc…
Small & large groups are welcomed.

Whether you need catering for a wedding or boxed lunches for an office staff,
there is no job to big or too small for CRAVES Soul Food Catering.
We accept cash, checks, Visa,
MasterCard, and American Express as forms of payment.

Call CRAVES Soul Food Catering today to schedule us for your next event!

For a taste of CRAVES contact us for upcoming dates and times at our home base venue located at the SCOTT’S GRAND Grand Reception and Corporate Center, 5060 Dorchester Rd Suite 320, North Charleston, SC 29418.

We can accommodate 200 plus!
Buses/Motor-coaches are welcomed just call ahead.

Flavorful Meals for Individuals, Businesses, Families,Communities, & Special Events.
We welcome networking opportunities with others in the food service industry.

Welcome to CRAVES Soul Food Catering, LLC

1st Feb 2010, by Craves, filed in Soups & Veggies
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The preparation of Gullah/Geechee Soul Food:

Our ancestors also planted greens on the pieces of land they lived on.

Making a “mess of greens” it was called… cooking a lot of leaves, water, and meat in a big black iron pot.

Greens were mostly served with sweet potatoes,

macaroni and cheese, corn bread, and ice tea for a real “down South” meal.

  • Black-eyed peas, another soul food icon, originally came from Africa and was often eaten in US on New Year Day to bring prosperity. This tradition is still carried out in many homes today. Some also believe that black-eyed peas will make you become strong.
  • Sweet potatoes were often parboiled, sliced and then baked, using sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and butter. This dish was, commonly called “candied yams” also boiled, then pureed and baked into pies .

“Rice”- One pot cooking, Low Country Gullah Rice, Geechee call it “Prioleau rice

Join us at CRAVES Soul Food- Heritage Cooking at it’s best!

CRAVES Soul Food,  Catering Service, Charleston SC
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From Staple Food to High Cuisine. Rice, Soup, Stews and more…      

 

Shrimp ‘n grits - shrimp is simmered in a brown gravy and served over grits. This dish can be served for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Most Gullah/Geechees consider grits to be a must-have for breakfast and rice a must for dinner.  
“Prioleau or Perlo” rice- a one-pot meal of rice marinated with a vegetable, bean, and/or meat. Shrimp Prioleau, Red Rice, Hoppin John, Chicken Prioleau, Okra Prioleau are popular favorites. Rice was a major cash crop from the late 17th century until the Civil War, and it has continued to be a major Southern food staple.
 
Vibration Cooking, or The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, (New York: 1970), cited in Karen Hess, The Carolina Rice Kitchen: the African connection (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992)
  
  A Gullah woman describes a typical meal at home, 1930s   

 We had rice everyday. When you said what you were eating for dinner, you always assumed the rice was there.

That was one of my jobs too. To cook the rice.

 A source of pride to me was that I cooked rice like a grown person.

I could cook it till every grain stood by itself.  

 

 Gullah slave song from the South Carolina Low Country, recorded in 1862

Among the Pines; or, South in Secession-Time (New York, 1862)

 Come listen, all you darkies, come listen to my song,

It am about ole Massa, who use me bery wrong:

In de cole, frosty morning’, it an’t so bery nice,

Wid de water to de middle to de hoe among de rice  -Edmund Kirke