The Art of the Plate: September 2017

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

CIC Alum Daven Coad Gets a Splendid Post & Courier Review

Photos of Daven Coad as the winner of
The People's Choice Award
in San Pellegrino's Almost Famous Chef competition

Charleston Post and Courier Chief Critic Hanna Raskin recently wrote a review titled "Find Surprises Inside Mainland Container Co.," where CIC alum Daven Coad is chef. Raskin wrote: "chef Daven Coad has worked up an array of dishes that reveal a real interest in local ingredients and unfussy ways of celebrating them."

There is much more, plus plating photos at
http://www.postandcourier.com/food/restaurant_reviews/review-find-surprises-inside-mount-pleasant-s-mainland-container-co/article_1a952874-8e55-11e7-bf4f-3753c70a4de3.html

Thursday, September 14, 2017

What We're Reading

“Eating from the Ground Up”

Out just in time for the vegetables appearing at our farmers markets, Alana Chernila’s cookbook focuses on creatively using every root and leaf. While some of the recipes may be familiar concepts – think stuffed tomatoes – hers are packed with millet, basil, and parsley. Fried rice stars salmon, fennel, and Swiss chard stems. Roasted asparagus are sauced with a combo of butter, garlic, nutritional yeast, and tamari. Stone fruit, raw corn kernels, scallions, basil, and jalapeño make a cool salad for hot weather. Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC.

"Soul: A Chef's Culinary Evolution in 150 Recipes"

“This book is my homage to the cuisine of my family,” Chef Todd Richards writes in his autobiographical collection of essays and recipes. “These are the ingredients of my people. This is my sermon about my Soul food.”

Bringing accolades for his stints at Atlanta’s Ritz Carlton and Four Seasons, James Beard nominations, and, of course, his prowess at Southern cooking, Richards seasons the pot with a powerful bouquet of flavors as he pays his heritage forward. Collards cooked with ham hocks are accented with piquant pickled collard stems. Blueberries are found in fried pies; strawberries are plated with champagne aspic, whipped cream, and honey. Grilled peaches pair with radishes on toast spread with pimiento cheese. Sweet potatoes are layered with cauliflower and crab in a lush gratin.

"Soul food," Richards tells us, "is the original cuisine of the South, born from an involuntary collision of cultures."
Published by Southern Living. $35.

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

CIC Alum Daven Coad Gets a Splendid Post & Courier Review

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Culinary Institute of Charleston: Comprehensive Look