The Next Pizza Star
Arabella Justice of Pizza A Modo Mio takes first place in Young Pizza Maker Division at California Pizza Challenge by Lorne Chambers | Editor Pizza A Modo Mio in West Ashley has earned plenty of accolades in recent years, but its latest honor feels especially...
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2017 Spring Cookbook Issue — A Trip To The Farmers Market
Every spring and every Fall West Of puts out our semi-annual Cookbook Issue. Essentially it’s a food-centric issue that is a kind of cookbook, with recipes, cooking tips, and ideas from local chefs and food purveyors. There is always a theme of some sort and recipes...
May is Bessinger’s Barbecue Month
Last week, during the monthly meeting of the St. Andrew’s Rotary Club at Bessinger’s Barbecue on Savannah Highway, Mayor John Tecklenburg came to the podium to talk a bit about the Plan West Ashley meetings that have been taking place over the last several months....
The Lovely Days Of May
As we continue on through May, 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. That said, I see 90s looming this week, so I don’t...
Frothy Beard Expands … Again
Frothy Beard’s new 30-barrel tanks arrived last week, tripling the brewery’s capacity after being open just five weeks. The big expansion comes nearly nine months ahead of schedule as demands for Frothy beer continue to skyrocket. “We just can’t brew beer fast...
Wicked Weed Sells Out
The year of 1919 was barely a month old when Congress ratified the 18th amendment to the constitution. Later in the year, Congress passed the National Prohibition Act, known more commonly as the Volstead Act, providing federal guidelines for the ban on the...
Chips & Salsa Beer
As we’ve hit May, one of a few beer-centric holidays looms large. With Cinco de Mayo kicking off this weekend, there’s no better time to discuss the interesting, lets be honest - expected, trend of craft brewed Mexican-style lager. Since American craft brewing has...
A Truly American Wheat Ale
It is not yet summer, and I am certainly not finished drinking the wonder ambers, pale ales and bocks of spring. However, yesterday the temperature was 84 degrees and not a cloud was in the sky. As a friend of mine and I popped over to a local filling station, our...
Good To The Last Drop
With nearly 20 breweries and counting in Charleston (three right here in West Ashley), it’s hard to stand out in the crowd. But the owners of Twisted Cypress Brewing Co., that recently opened on Sam Rittenberg Boulevard, have got a couple tricks up their sleeve … or...
A Thing Of Beauty
Much has been written in the column lately about the virtues of session beer. Those low alcohol yet tasty brews that you can return to over and over in an afternoon really are fantastic. Still, there is a place for the high gravity brews, some of them are the most...
WAHS Finishes Third at ProStart Invitational
Recently West Ashley High School (WAHS) sent two Culinary Arts teams to the 15th Annual South Carolina ProStart Invitational. The South Carolina ProStart Invitational is the state’s premier competition for high school culinary arts and hospitality students. West...
