South Carolina Insiders

Let our local, South Carolina experts on Food and Dining favories, Less Traveled locations, Family Travel in SC, Arts and Culture, Outdoor Adventures, and Golf help you have the very best beach vacation in South Carolina!

  • Food

    Gwen Fowler

    As a resident of Myrtle Beach, Gwen Fowler lives minutes away from many of the state’s fun food festivals and great seafood markets and restaurants. She is a good Southern cook, but she’s also lucky to be married to a man who turns out fine meals many nights at home.

    Gwen is a freelance writer and teaches journalism classes at Coastal Carolina University. She was a reporter and editor at daily newspapers for almost 25 years. When you can find Gwen not eating, you might find her running. She runs almost every day and has run six marathons in the past five years. If you’re going to eat a lot, it helps to love an activity that burns a lot of calories.

    Learn More...
Recent Updates
  • Food The food’s always good at the Blue Crab Festival The folks of Little River have been putting on the Blue Crab Festival for 32 years, and this year, on May 18-19, crowds of locals and tourists turned out to enjoy sunshine along the Intracoastal Waterway, good food, live music, and lots of arts and… >> More
  • Food Abingdon Manor one of the world’s top inns Abingdon Manor Inn and Restaurant in Latta is one of the top 10 culinary inns in the world, according to BedandBreakfast.com.  “Spend the afternoon in the intimate cooking classes learning and preparing food while sampling wine from t… >> More
  • Food Grand Strand’s Flavor funds scholarships for culinary students Flavor, an event at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, gave people a chance to sample specialties from some Grand Strand restaurants and help fund scholarships for culinary students at Horry Georgetown Technical College.  Among those servi… >> More
  • Food Chef Ken Vedrinski opening new restaurant Coming soon is a new restaurant by Ken Vedrinski, owner and executive chef of Trattoria Lucca.  The new restaurant, Coda Del Pesce, is opening in the building that formerly housed Huck’s on Isle of Palms. His Facebook page says the ne… >> More
  • Food Myrtle Beach festival postponed for a year Coastal Uncorked won’t be held this year. The Myrtle Beach food and wine festival had been scheduled for June 3-8, but the Myrtle Beach Area Hospitality Association postponed it until 2014 because of a recent ruling by the S.C. Department … >> More
  • Food McCain steps down from Euphoria board Musician Edwin McCain, a co-founder of Euphoria, has resigned as a board member of the organization that presents the September food, wine and music festival in Greenville.  McCain said his family and his touring and recording commitments l… >> More
  • Food FIG, Husk make top 10 in the nation lists Some of the country’s leading publications are huge fans of the great chefs and restaurants of Charleston, so it’s not surprising to see Husk and FIG getting some love from Forbes and GQ magazines. A Forbes list names the Husk cheese… >> More