South Carolina’s Sweet Peaches
You haven't tasted peaches until you've eaten South Carolina peaches from the Old 96 District, an area in the north western part of the state that includes Greenwood, Edgefield, Abbeville and Laurens. Peach producers like Titan Farms take great pride in their peach crop - making South Carolina the number two producer of peaches in the country. (Behind California, but ahead of Georgia!) I was one of the judges in this year's Old 96 Peach Off, tasting the best of the best locally made peach cobblers, pies and cakes. My favorite was Phillip Trotter's Peach Pound Cake, a densely satisfying treatment of this wonderful fruit.