Cookbook-writing caterer extraordinaire Debbi Covington dishes about food.
Dine In for MM
Written by Margaret Evans
Tuesday, 18 August 2020 11:29
#ShowMeYourTable Multiple Myeloma is a rare cancer of blood plasma cells. MM treatments have advanced quite a bit over the years but the disease still desperately needs a cure. When Beaufortonian Steve Mix was diagnosed with MM in February, his daughter Caroline Mix Stapleton created a Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) Facebook page to support her father and to solicit funds for study and testing.
On July 22nd, I taught my very first virtual cooking class for the University of South Carolina Beaufort's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Hosted by USCB on Zoom from my kitchen on Lady's Island, the class of 92 students was very well socially distanced while still being able to interact with the hosts and the presenter. My dear friend, local photographer Susan DeLoach, helped me pull off the presentation.
When Vince and I were first married, back in the old days when I used to have weekends off, watching Nathalie DuPree's cooking show on PBS was one of the highlights of my Saturday mornings. Nathalie was always dressed in a colorful apron with matching oven mitts and hot pads. I loved her style of cooking and her recipes and her amazing ability to make everything she cooked look doable for a home cook. Never in a million years would I have imagined that I'd have the opportunity to meet my favorite television chef, let alone be able to call her my friend.
We're celebrating twenty years of celebrating at Lowcountry Weekly – not that we need an excuse.
Those of you who know me know that I'll make up a reason to celebrate something, even when there's no real occasion. In this case, I think a party to commemorate a milestone for Lowcountry Weekly is in perfect order – even if we're having to do it virtually.
Celebrating the Lowcountry Weekly Gang (Volume One)
By Debbi Covington
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then 20 pictures has to be a volume. Y'all know that I've been writing a food column for Lowcountry Weekly since 2005. What you probably didn't know is that I'm also the unofficial “every time we get together” photographer and keeper of the scrapbooks. Yep. I'm that person who shoves her iPhone into the hands of the most available body and sweetly asks, “will you please take a picture of us?' When it comes to photos, I have no shame.