Category Archives: Jeff Allen

Food + Wine Kickoff

If you didn’t make the kick-off party for the Charleston Food + Wine festival yesterday afternoon, then you missed out on a grand time, perfect weather (considering the rain lately), and some really fine, well, food and wine.  The best dish of the night by far was a “Shrimp BLT” concoction put out by Craig [...]

Jeff’s Balls (pictured)


Offal Selections

I’m all enamored with variety meats these days.  After frying up some bull testicles for the City Paper luau at the Barna ranch the other night, I began to to loathe the lack of “variety” that our insular little redneck town possesses.  We need places serving up stuff like these Grasshopper Tacos in NYC. [...]

A Trip to The Wadmalaw Supper Club

WOW! What a treat it was recently when Sean Brock called up and invited me out to view the McCrady’s Farm (including the new pork project that helps turn the farm waste into sausage) and for dinner at the Wadmalaw Supper Club, a private club of farmers and good ole’ boys that have been gathering [...]

Damn Northerners Win Again…

If you missed the Today Show this morning, meaning if you have a job and don’t lie around all day watching TV off an antenna, then you’ll have to pick up the Internet stream of Jimmy Hagood and the Blackjack BBQ team here.  Jimmy and the boys left the “Big Red Rig” up in NYC [...]

The Inevitable Rise of Pig Uterus

I was out yesterday in North Chuck, hauling a load of old gutters from my home renovation project to a blistering hot scrap metal yard on Rivers Avenue, and decided to dive into La Nortena, which despite its relocation, schmancy  facelift, and watered down menu, still serves some damn good tacos alongside the best Mexican [...]

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