Anonymous Burgers, Greer Surprisingly, not every Southern chef makes meat or seafood the center star of every dish. Take, for example, Anonymous Burgers inside Greer’s community-driven Cartwright Food Hall . Along with all manner of meat-based burgers, owner and South Carolina Chef Ambassador Michael Sibert turns to a local mushroom producer to create his robustly flavorful Double Patty Plant-Based Burg’r. "This may look like fast food, but we're sourcing local ingredients," Sibert says. His vegetarian double-decker burger includes two house-made patties: one from lentils and red beets, and one made from a mushroom called lion’s mane. "Lion's mane is a very dense, hardy mushroom. So, it's perfect for grilling," explains Jackson Wood, owner of Dark Spore Mushroom Company in Piedmont. Dark Spore currently grows around 800 pounds of mushrooms a week, supplying many of the restaurants in the Upstate with blue oysters, pink oysters, golden oysters and lion's mane. With each chef’s close relationship with local food producers, South Carolina flavors come to life in unexpected and delicious ways. South Carolina Chef Ambassadors Learn more about South Carolina’s esteemed chefs that have been selected as state culinary ambassadors thanks to their culinary and cultural creativity. Scan the QR code to see them all. 26
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