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George & Pink

7971 Eddingsville Beach Rd., Edisto Island, SC - (843) 869-2425
Posted By Michael Stern on 1/9/2006 9:51:00 PM
George & Pink is not a restaurant. It is a vegetable stand, open every day, year-round, from 8am to 8pm, run by Pink Brown and her father George. The growing season here in coastal South Carolina never ends and the Edisto Island soil is famously fertile, so the bins in this wooden, dirt-floored building always have something of interest.

In the winter, you’ll find beautiful potatoes, yams, squash, red and green peppers, and cabbage, as well as flavorful tomatoes. Starting early in the spring, Pink Brown gets in cantaloupes that are ultrasweet; and by mid-May the sweet corn starts coming. Pink told us that the corn is so delicious right on the cob that you don’t even want to cook it. Just peel off the husk and gnaw the full-flavored kernels right from the cob.

This is a charming island place, located down a long unpaved, tree-shaded road off Highway 174. All around the hut where vegetables are sold free-ranging chickens scratch and cluck and crow. And as you walk from your car, you’ll likely see Duke, Pink’s big lazy dog who likes to snooze in a large flower planter, oblivious to visitors.

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5 - Overall: Legendary - Worth driving from anyplace
Overall: Legendary - Worth driving from anyplace
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Pink Brown stands by the scale on which she weighs produce.
"Pink Brown stands by the scale on which she weighs produce."
Michael Stern





The dirt-floored hut where Pink Brown sells her vegetables is reminiscent of Edisto’s earlier, more primitive days before a bridge connected it to the mainland.
"The dirt-floored hut where Pink Brown sells her vegetables is reminiscent of Edisto’s earlier, more primitive days before a bridge connected it to the mainland."
Michael Stern


This is a view of some of the fresh vegetables available in the winter. In summer months they are supplemented by sweet corn and melons.
"This is a view of some of the fresh vegetables available in the winter. In summer months they are supplemented by sweet corn and melons."
Michael Stern


As a watchdog, Duke is a complete failure. He much prefers snoozing in this flower planter to checking out visitors who come to the vegetable stand.
"As a watchdog, Duke is a complete failure. He much prefers snoozing in this flower planter to checking out visitors who come to the vegetable stand."
Michael Stern


Live oaks shelter the road that leads to George & Pink as well as the vegetable stand itself.
"Live oaks shelter the road that leads to George & Pink as well as the vegetable stand itself."
Michael Stern



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