Shrimp Bog

Generally, a bog is a wetland, but in the Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry, the term more often refers to any dish that includes wet, soggy rice (unlike a dry, fluffy perloo or jambalaya). When I asked my old friend Bobby King, from Conway, South Carolina, to send me his recipe for chicken or shrimp bog, here’s part of what he said: “Growing up in coastal South Carolina on a tobacco farm where they planted rice generations ago, we always had a live-in black housekeeper and cook—first Leila,