Thursday, March 28, 2024

Easy Entertaining — Cajun Crawfish Boil…Made Easy

Up here, north of Bayou Country, Cajun food is party food, the mark of a celebration that includes spicy sausage and seafood, rice and okra, catfish, gumbo, maque choux... And the epitome of Cajun party...

Edibles & Potables: Cannabis cuisine in Thailand? “THC is the new MSG”

Each Sunday at F&D we consider culinary topics from the dusty "edibles and potables" three-ring binder, as existing outside the boundaries of our metropolitan Louisville coverage area, and you can rest assured that cannabis...

Easy Entertaining — A Lobster Feast (party planning & recipes)

Ask anyone who has seen Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” knows, cooking whole live lobsters can be intimidating. But we’ve taken the fear out of the process by providing easy steps to properly cook lobsters,...

Cooking with Ron—Nashville Hot Chicken

Suddenly, Nashville-style hot chicken is popping up all over in the form of new restaurants or as menu items at others such as KFC and O’Charley’s. In Louisville, Joella’s Hot Chicken and Royals Hot...

Board and You Bistro & Wine Bar prepares to broaden the charcuterie in New...

If it's true that we eat with our eyes (these writers say yes, we do), then Zack Flanagan and Sean Lara may have devised a perfectly legal means to print money. Their Board and You...

Gasthaus German Restaurant boasts curbside carryout Gemütlichkeit

Gasthaus German Restaurant (4812 Brownsboro Center) has been conjuring authentic German food for Louisville residents since 1993. Speaking personally as a card-carrying trencherman, with numerous memories of dining out in Germany, not only does Gasthaus...

Clearwater Seafood

Outpost of the Atlantic Maritimes thrives in Louisville In a nondescript business park in South Louisville, among loading docks and plain-faced offices, a Nova Scotia company is busy handling a treasure among ocean seafood — live,...

It’s Derby-Pie™ only if Kern’s Kitchen bakes it

The beer nerds among us understand the implications of a trademark. "Steam" beer is a style of beer associated with San Francisco, but Anchor Brewing Company owns the trademark, and so the rest of us...

Restaurant Profile — Al Hamra Halal Mediterranean Buffet & Feast

A Chef-Driven Celebration of Middle Eastern Cuisine in All its Colorful Glory For Louisville-area diners who’ve come to enjoy Arabic cuisine via the menus served at gracious dining venues like The Grape Leaf and welcoming,...

The Taste Bud: NEWS FLASH — Aldi’s frozen ahi tuna steaks transmute into sashimi

Department of Creative Sashimi: Kevin's exploration of uses for flash-frozen tuna steaks already has transformed my household's next journey to Aldi. (As a brief reminder, F&D links to prolific local writer Kevin Gibson’s “The Taste...