Though Neal died in 1990, his influence lives on today at Crook's Corner, now helmed by Bill Smith, and also in the kitchens of so many of today's superb Southern chefs, who spent time under his tutelage: Robert Stehling of Charleston's Hominy Grill, whose Shrimp and Grits recipe is published here John Currence of City Grocery, in Oxford, Mississippi Karen and Ben Barker of Magnolia Grill (1986–2012) and Amy Tornquist of Watts Grocery, in Durham, North Carolina, to name a few. In 1982, he left "La Res" to open the more casual Crook's Corner, serving the kind of honest, simple, and refined farm cooking he grew up with to University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill students and professors. Bill Neal was raised on a farm in Gaffney, South Carolina (upstate, peach-growing country), and opened a fancy French restaurant, La Residence, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. As explained in the headnote to the recipes for crab soup, William Deas is Blanche Rhett's "able butler….one of the great cooks of the world," referred to numerous times throughout the book, and the chef credited with inventing She-Crab Soup, another cardinal dish of Charleston.īut before we get to the present, it's vital to talk about Bill Neal, who we believe is to credit for the popularization of the dish. A distinction of this recipe is that it is noted to be "William's Recipe"-as quite a few others are throughout the book. The headnote reads: "This is a delicious breakfast dish, served in almost every house in Charleston during the shrimp season." It's intended to serve four people: a pound of raw shrimp, peeled, sautéed in four ounces of melted butter seasoned with salt and pepper, and served over a half-cup of "hot hominy" per serving. In the "Shellfish and Fish" chapter of that volume, on page 20, is a recipe for "Shrimps with Hominy. Pages Okra Grill, Mount Pleasant Picture: Awesome Shrimp & Grits - Check out Tripadvisor members 1151 candid photos and videos of Pages Okra Grill. The book was edited by Lettie Gay, and given an "introduction and explanatory matter" by Helen Woodward. Goodwyn Rhett, mayor of the city from 1903 to 1911. Rhett, who lived in Charleston with her husband, R. The first totemic cookbook in which we see the congress of shrimp and "hominy" in print is the 1930 Two-Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking, a compendium of recipes gathered by Blanche S. The representative Lowcountry cookbooks of the twentieth century reveal the development, from this basic prototype to what we know of today as Shrimp and Grits.
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