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Chef Forrest Parker Updates Traditional Receipes

Making It Grow Minute

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. The SC Chef Ambassador program selects talented cooks who blend culinary expertise with locally-sourced vegetables and animal products. Mount Pleasant is home to the Old Village Post Inn and one of our Chef Ambassadors, Forrest Parker. He updates traditional recipes with modern adjustments – focusing on using fresh and local ingredients. A former tour guide in the Holy City, Chef Parker knows how to keep your attention from wandering with such offerings as crab cakes with shaved fennel salad, dressed witha blood orange vinaigrette, especially if you start your evening with his Barn Raiser cocktail. Tune in tomorrow for another chef profile of the 2016 Chef Ambassador.

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Amanda McNulty is a Clemson University Extension Horticulture agent and the host of South Carolina ETV’s Making It Grow! gardening program. She studied horticulture at Clemson University as a non-traditional student. “I’m so fortunate that my early attempts at getting a degree got side tracked as I’m a lot better at getting dirty in the garden than practicing diplomacy!” McNulty also studied at South Carolina State University and earned a graduate degree in teaching there.