January has an “R” in its name and you know what that means! It’s time for the Lowcountry Oyster Festival!! Dubbed one of the Top 20 Tourist attractions by the Southeast Tourist Society, this annual event put on by the Charleston Restaurant Society will be held the 25th. Two tractor trailer loads of oysters (that’s over 65,000 pounds) will be brought in to Boone Hall Plantation for the World’s Largest Oyster Roast. Accommodating up to 10,000 hungry visitors, there will be oyster shucking contests, oyster eating contests and as scary as this sounds, a best dressed oyster contest. The prelude to the festival is the Oyster Recipe Contest which will be held on Friday the 16th at the Culinary Institute of Charleston’s Palmer Campus. The briny oyster stars in this local chef competition.
Who’s the Best Teen Chef? High School seniors dreaming of enrolling in culinary school can enter the Best Teen Chef Competition 2009 at the International Culinary School at the Art institute of Charleston. The top prize is a full-tuition scholarship to study culinary arts.
If your culinary skills aren’t up to competition standards, you might want to investigate the basic kitchen training for teens and young adults at Chop Chop Culinary Boot Camp on James Island.
Looking for the perfect cup of coffee? Charleston Coffee Roasters offers a free Coffee Cupping on the third Thursday of each month at 12:30. Learn the tradition of tasting coffee from our own local roaster.
Filed under: The Chef's Table on December 23rd, 2008
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