To taste a fish cake in the style of coastal North Carolina “Bankers," the name locals use for the ancestral residents of these islands, is to take a bite of history.

Foodie Bethany Gaskin joins Kee Kam and family for a deshelled seafood boil, savoring every buttery bite together.

In a quiet village kitchen, we transform a giant fish head into a nourishing soup made for sharing. Cooked slowly over an ...