Louis Osteen's Charleston Cuisine Recipes from a Lowcountry Chef

Louis Osteen has appeared on the TV Food Network, the Travel Channel, Recipes of America, CNN's On the Menu, and is currently featured on the Discovery Channel's Great Chefs of the South series. He teaches sessions at the James Beard House and has twice been nominated for a James Beard Award. He has received GQ's Golden Dish Award, and his restaurant was selected by Esquire as one of the Best New Restaurants of 1998. He lives in Charleston with his wife, Marlene, and cooks at Louis's, at 200 Meeting Street.

James A. Michener, 1907 - 1997 James Albert Michener was born on February 3, 1907 in Doylestown, Pa. He earned an A.B. from Swarthmore College, an A.M. from Colorado State College of Education, and an M.A. from Harvard University. He taught for many years and was an editor for Macmillan Publishing Company. His first book, "Tales of the South Pacific," derived from Michener's service in the Pacific in World War II, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical South Pacific, which won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Michener completed close to 40 novels. Some other epic works include "Hawaii," "Centennial," "Space," and…  More "Caribbean." He also wrote a significant amount of nonfiction including his autobiography "The World Is My Home." Among his many other honors, James Michener received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977. He was married to Patti Koon in 1935; they divorced in 1948. He married Vange Nord in 1948 (divorced 1955) and Mari Yoriko Sabusawa in 1955 (deceased 1994). He died in 1997 in Austin, Texas.Bret Lott is the author of twelve books, most recently the novel Ancient Highway, published in July, 2008. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1984, studying under Jay Neugeboren and James Baldwin. From 1986 to 2004 he was writer-in-residence and professor of English at The College of Charleston, leaving to take the position of editor and director of the journal The Southern Review at Louisiana State University. Three years later, in the fall of 2007, he returned to The College of Charleston and the job he most loves: teaching.  Less