The Southern Fork - Travel Journal: TD Saturday Market (Greenville, SC)

Travel Journal: TD Saturday Market (Greenville, SC)

07/01/23 • 8 min

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The following is a travel journal entry recorded on location and delivered to you the same day. I hope you enjoy this mini-installment from the road during my Southern Fork Summer, and look for a regular full size interview to drop this Friday.

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Diego Campos: CAMP, Modern American Eatery (Greenville, SC)

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Diego Campos, Executive Chef at CAMP, Modern American Eatery, works the chef’s counter like a pro in this Greenville, SC restaurant, chatting and visiting and not looking at all stressed that he and his team are making multiple complicated dishes for multiple tables. He’s just the latest to rise through the ranks of Table 301 Group, a restaurant group with more than 10 restaurants that’s been highly influential in changing the flavor of Greenville’s restaurant scene. The company often takes its growth cues from the passion of its chefs, and some have gone on to eventually buy their restaurant from the group and become a chef-owner. Diego joined Table 301 in 2013, and through the last decade has developed his own techniques and culinary style. CAMP originally opened under Chef Drew Erickson, but with Diego, Mexican flavors and preps are shining brightly on the menu, often with exceptional execution. It’s a mirror for the exceptional creativity and exceptionally bright future for this Greenville chef.

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Ashley Warlick & Teryi Youngblood Musolf: M. Judson Booksellers (Greenville, SC)

Pardon me on this one, but it’s true: we writers love a bookstore. I’ve heard many writers refer to their favorite bookstores or libraries as temples to reading, but one of the South’s most significant spots for cookbook authors, M. Judson Booksellers in Greenville, SC, even kind of feels like a temple, situated dead center in the downtown district in a multi-floor historic building. It’s anything but reverent inside, however. I think revelry is a more apt term, actually, with Ashley Warlick, book buyer and author of four novels, collaborating with Teryi Youngblood Musolf, chef, to bring books to life through the plate with Camilla Kitchen. They take the idea of a book event to a new level with food, wine, and plenty of conversation, and celebrate the love of reading and food that brings people together. Their affection for each other and what they do is evident in this animated conversation, and it’s that creative energy that makes their events a coveted ticket in the city.