SoLost: The Lee Brothers and Their Boiled Peanuts Catalogue

Siblings Matt and Ted Lee grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. When they left to attend colleges in the Northeast, they so missed the foods of their hometown that they founded The Lee Bros. Boiled Peanuts Catalogue, a stripped-down hand-made mail-order catalogue offering southern pantry staples like stone-ground grits, fig preserves, and, of course, boiled peanuts. When an editor of a travel magazine asked them to write a story about road-tripping their home state in search of great food, they embarked on a second career as food and travel journalists.

Their debut cookbook "The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-be Southerners" was a massive hit, and garnered the boys a bit of culinary stardom. The cookbook won the prestigious James Beard award for best cookbook in 2007 and now they're readying their latest surefire hit, "The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern."

Yet with all the mainstream glory, the boys keep coming back to Charleston to make their boiled peanuts catalogue and distribute their favorite Southern specialty foods. And where does it all occur? A cramped little office in an old Charleston boarding house. SoLost took a peek ....