Sallie Ann Robinson

Sallie Ann Robinson is the sixth-generation Daufuskie Island, South Carolina cook whose Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way (2003) and Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night (2007) are two of the clearest first-person Gullah cookbooks in print. She was one of Pat Conroy's students in the one-room schoolhouse he wrote about in The Water Is Wide.

She cooks, teaches, and leads tours of Daufuskie. Her work is a primary document of an intact Sea Island kitchen — deviled crab, okra soup, hoppin' john, and the rice cookery that is the through-line of the Lowcountry.