Huguenot Torte

For a long time, it was taken for granted that this glorious specialty of the South Carolina Lowcountry originated with the persecuted French Protestants who fled to the area in the late seventeenth century. Then some killjoy discovered that the dessert is neither French nor old and was probably named after Charleston’s Huguenot Tavern, where, during the 1940s, it was adapted from a Mississippi River delta recipe and served to great acclaim. No matter, for whatever its origins and age, the