West Ashley Supper Club
Brand new column celebrates the joys of cooking and the importance of supporting local businesses Let’s take a quick survey. By a show of hands, how many of you have spent the last couple of months overindulging? That’s OK. And how many of you are super stoked about a...
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Salt Of The Earth
Salt (sodium chloride) is a ubiquitous mineral on this planet, essential for human life, and one of the basic tastes that even babies can differentiate. As a seasoning and flavor in the human diet, salt may be the most important of all. Its uses are endless, of...
On The Right Track
Boxcar Betty’s Roth Scott and Ian MacBryde created a recipe for success by creating a chicken sandwich that marries local farm freshness with modern quick-service efficiency, and the feisty attitude of fictional workers’ rights character Boxcar Betty. The restaurant...
A DIPA Battle
If there’s one thing that American craft brewers and craft beer drinkers love, it’s their hops. The American craft beer scene is known for big, bitter, boisterous brews. What started in the ’80s and ’90s on the west coast has spread nation wide. And the fruit of that...
From Garden To Table
On Main Road, not far off Savannah Highway, a tall, hand-painted sign beckons drivers to stop for “tomatoes”, “goat cheese”, and “hydrangeas.” On Fridays, a smaller sign declares, “Maine Lobstah.” This is the Main Road Farmers Market (MRFM), the brainchild of...
A Classic In The Making
Classic Coffee is remaking the concept of brewed coffee and espresso in Charleston. At their soft opening recently, owners Jeff Corbett and Winter Fox were delighted at the enthusiastic reception they received. Some Avondale neighbors even came up and said thank-you...
The Lovely Days Of May
Welcome to May, friends, where the hint of summer is juxtaposed with the last grasp of winter. As pollen clogs the drains and coats the cars, I awoke recently to my heat kicking on late at night; it was set on 66. I digress…the days of spring are aggressively making...
A Real Fiesta West of the Ashley
This weekend there will be plenty of celebrating in West Ashley for everyone’s favorite American holiday — Cinco de Mayo! And yes, technically it isn’t an American holiday at all. And yes, the 5th of May isn’t until Monday, but that’s not stopping many red-blooded...
Mexican Food & Beer
I’m not afraid to admit, I love Mexican food. Further, I’ve never been to mexico, and have only had a home-cooked Mexican meal on one or two occasions. So, yeah, I’m talking about the somewhat Americanized version, with the combo meals, I’ll have a #11 thanks....
All Day IPAs
Full disclosure and in hopes of protecting my own arse, the above column title and byline are not of my own creation, they are actually names of relatively new beers in a comparatively new, or at least more modern sub-style of a classic beer category, the American...
A Healthy Gut
Certified holistic health coach Stephanie Burg will be teaching a hands-on fermentation workshop at Spacecraft Studios in West Ashley this Saturday, April 26. The workshop, Fermentation 101 + Probiotics is geared toward education about the importance of healthy...
