Mrs. Meggett has a recipe for Chicken Perloo in her Gullah Geechee Home Cooking. She says, “Many of the one-pot rice dishes ...

This was and is apparent in Gullah cuisine, with many dishes being similar to customary African foods. One example is red rice, a classic of Gullah cuisine that has many similarities with jollof ...

In 1933, the pioneering Black linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner met an elderly Gullah Geechee ... area as the Rice Coast; as English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson wrote in 1788, the red rice found ...