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" What&amp;#039;s in the water in South Carolina? Or maybe we should say \u2014 what&amp;#039;s in the food? Last week, Eat Like A Man outlined how Greenville is following the gastronomic lead of Charleston and becoming a culinary hotspot. At the same time, we were running a poll to determine the best mac and cheese in America \u2014 a poll that, it turns out, was dominated by Crave Kitchen &amp;amp;amp; Cocktails, in Mount Pleasant, S.C. And we do mean dominated \u2014 with more than 85 percent of the vote, Crave is our biggest winner yet. When we told Executive Chef Landen Ganstrom the news, he loudly exclaimed &amp;quot;woo-hoo!&amp;quot; and shouted out into the kitchen, &amp;quot;We won Esquire!&amp;quot; Ganstrom \u2014 a self-proclaimed &amp;quot;crossfit guy&amp;quot; who maintains a pasta-free Paleo diet \u2014 concocted his mac &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; cheese recipe for his fiancee four years ago. &amp;quot;The only thing she eats is mac &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; cheese,&amp;quot; he says, with perhaps some exaggeration. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s her favorite food.&amp;quot; Ganstrom&amp;#039;s winning recipe includes a ten-year aged California cheddar, parmesan, mozzarella, and a &amp;quot;secret ingredient&amp;quot; suggested by his 10-year-old daughter. It&amp;#039;s slow-cooked with cavatappi pasta to create a consistent gooeyness which, Ganstrom says, is the key to its popularity. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s thick all the way through,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;You don&amp;#039;t have to restir it to get cheese off the bottom of the dish.&amp;quot; Ganstrom describes Crave as &amp;quot;casual fine dining.&amp;quot; The restaurant is owned by Chris Dolan and located near the beach, just off the Isle of Palms Connector Bridge that links the town of Mount Pleasant with the barrier island on the Carolina coast. As the three-time People&amp;#039;s Choice winner of Charleston&amp;#039;s Mac Off competition, perhaps we shouldn&amp;#039;t be surprised at Crave&amp;#039;s runaway victory. Check out the full results below, and if you have any fond memories of fine meals at Crave, please do share them in the comments.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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