Sallie Ann Robinson was born and reared on Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands well known for their Gullah culture. Although technology and development were slow in coming to Daufuskie, the island is now changing rapidly. With this book, Robinson highlights some of her favorite memories and delicious recipes from life on Daufuskie, where the islanders traditionally ate what they grew in the soil, caught in the river, and hunted in the woods. The unique food traditions of Gullah culture contain a blend of African, European, and Native American influences. Reflecting the rhythm of a day in the kitchen, from breakfast to dinner (and anywhere in between), this cookbook collects seventy-five recipes for easy-to-prepare, robustly flavored dishes. Robinson also includes twenty-five folk remedies, demonstrating how in the Gullah culture, in the not-so-distant past, food and medicine were closely linked and the sea and the land provided what islanders needed to survive. In her spirited introduction and chapter openings, Robinson describes how cooking the Gullah way has enriched her life, from her childhood on the island to her adulthood on the nearby mainland.

A history of Gullah Cuisine Restaurant and Gullah culture, featuring recipes by renowned Chef Charlotte Jenkins. Gullah Chef Charlotte Jenkins' debut cookbook, "Gullah Cuisine: By Land and By Sea," bridges the past and the present. Photojournalist Mic Smith captures present-day images of Gullah life in coastal South Carolina a visit to the farmer's market, a baptism, a wedding and the home where Charlotte grew up. Those images are juxtaposed to earlier photographs that tell the story of Gullah life. Mingled among it all are the colorful paintings of Jonathan Green, whose extraordinary artwork tells his story of growing up Gullah down the road from Charlotte in Beaufort County. As writer William Baldwin puts it, "There is a simple intimacy to these recipes, to these stories, and to the photographs and art that connect them. For Charlotte, Gullah cooking is home cooking her mama's home and her own."