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Oxford American's editor rips Charleston's Garden & Gun new

If you want to fire a Southern shot, you need to know how to do it right. Charleston used to be in that camp, back when a plurality of voting residents fearful of an overreaching federal government would get the local college boys to drag a 1,000-pound cannon to the top of a stately mansion and blow the hell out of Fort Sumter. These days, those folks vote for Mitt Romney and call it a day.
Charleston City Paper  |  Jeff Allen  |  04-05-2012  |  Commentary

Forget Ramen: Starving College Students Should Turn to Rice and Beansnew

For me, beans and rice, two simple ingredients, brought together by the currents of history, became a dorm room staple. Over the years, I have perfected a variety of rice and bean dishes; to help starving students, I thought I'd pass a few along.
Charleston City Paper  |  Jeff Allen  |  08-19-2009  |  Food+Drink

Real Men Take the Spicy Tuna Roll Challenge at Bushidonew

When a restaurant taunts you with a graphic sign daring you to down 10 incendiary tuna hand rolls, any self-respecting Southern boy is bound by tradition and hormonal urges to oblige the challenge, protect the innocent, and find glory for his clan.
Charleston City Paper  |  Jeff Allen  |  04-16-2008  |  Food+Drink

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