This week-long menu highlights much of what is local and in season here in the place that I live and love. If you are South like me, you will find that everything is super easy to get your hands on.

I was once in conversation with a woman who was lamenting that her daughter had become a vegetarian. Now, it wasn’t the fact that her child had given up meat that was the problem. She promptly followed this declaration with an eye roll and a sigh, proclaiming that her kid was putting on weight because she was actually a “carbatarian”.