- Deb: Next stop?

A backyard dinner, Charleston style.

Digging a little deeper into Charleston's culinary heritage, I mean what, how would you describe it?

- Amethyst: Charleston's culinary heritage is a painful but beautiful story.

Charleston was created literally because of a food source, because of Carolina Gold rice.

- Deb: Right.

- Amethyst: But from that, you know you have Gullah Geechee culture.

- Deb: Yeah.

- Amethyst: Which is the most retained West African culture that you can find here in the Americas, right?

So you see that with dishes like okra soup, like red rice.

- Deb: So talk to me about the shark.

What is happening?

- Amethyst: Yeah.

I actually got some of our crab ball seasoning that we also got from the seafood market and I just threw it in here.

I'm going to kind of do my own spin on something I actually saw Edna Lewis do while she worked at Middleton Place.

She did it with scallops.

I'm gonna do it with shark meat so I can bring a little bit of this back to, to Charleston and the Lowcountry.

- Deb: Yeah.

- Amethyst: And Gullah culture specifically.

- Deb: So are we gonna grill it?

That's what we're gonna do?

Amethyst: We gonna grill 'em - Deb: Okay.

Amethyst: We gonna stew 'em and then we gonna eat 'em.

- Deb: Alright.

- Amethyst: Put a little bit of chopped scallions and some green onions.

Alright, let's drop our tomatoes in there.

All of them right in there.

Yeah.

You smell real good.

- Deb: It does smell good.

The seasoning smells insane.

You got me working hard, Amethyst.

- Amethyst: Good.

- Deb: You got me working hard.

- Amethyst: That mean the food gonna taste better.

- Deb: Oh wow.

- Amethyst: So we have here a little smothered shark with some greens.

We got our mustards, our turnips, and our collards, and some stewed down heirloom, South Carolina Lowcountry tomatoes.

- Deb: Thank you so much.

- Amethyst: You're welcome.

Well, I don't know about you, but my shark was fork tender as hell.

- Deb: Wow.

That is incredible.

- Amethyst: Pretty good.

- Deb: Oh my goodness.

- Amethyst: I be surprising myself sometime.

I ain't gonna lie.