Collard Greens

When we visited South Carolina, it was wintertime, and by the side of the small roads between the highway and our rented house on Edisto Island, there were vegetable stands loaded with stacks of dark green collards. One day, on the advice of Hoppin’ John (John Martin Taylor of Charleston), we turned down a small dirt lane off the Edisto road to find Pink’s. Pink is an institution around Edisto. She has a small produce shop beside her house, full of ultrafresh seasonal fruits and vegetables.