The conch stew is a to-drive-for dish, even if Middleton serves it over parboiled rice that doesn’t soak up the stellar gravy in the way that softer rice might. (Still, there’s nothing to keep smart ...

Hard work and good food run in the Dorsett family. They run Lynn’s Bahamian Kitchen in West Park, where a video plays island scenes to the syncopated rhythms of goombay (from the African drum gombey).

Knobbed whelks, commonly known as conch on Lowcountry menus, are so ancient that when the dinosaurs disappeared whelks gave the snail equivalent of a shrug. Their ancestors were hoovering up worms on ...