Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Letters from Lelia’s Kitchen: “The Harbingers of Spring”

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/vol_81_-_spring_2024/32 F&D's home cooking columnist Lelia Gentle is preparing for strawberries, asparagus and other annual delights cherished by locavores: "The harbingers of Spring are on the way … you know, those farmers’ market early arrivals...

Edibles & Potables: “Endeavour” must end, but Fred Thursday’s sandwiches will live on

 I’m probably in the minority among my peers in the sense that television and cinema register very little impact in my life. It wasn’t always this way, and the obvious purpose of today’s post is...

Edibles & Potables: Ancient food traditions for the winter solstice (and Saturnalia)

The Winter 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. Click here to check it out. For the record,...

The Taste Bud: Kevin tastes Righteous Felon Craft Jerky, and is both pleased and...

It's been a spell since we checked in with our friend and colleague Kevin Gibson. Kevin as yet is selflessly engaged in the pursuit of flavor for the benefit of his readers, as here: The...

Edibles & Potables: The “pizza effect”; Alberto Grandi; and debunking Italian culinary myths

The Summer 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine — our 20th Anniversary issue — is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. We have the...

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...

The Taste Bud: Kevin ingests an Armageddon pepper and shares his pain

Here at Food & Dining Magazine, we're as enamored of Johnny Knoxville-style exhibitionist stunts as the next food and drink publication, so when our friend and colleague Kevin Gibson revealed his epic encounter with...

Edibles & Potables: Cuisine Nissarde — or, what to eat in Nice during Carnaval

I've noted oft times before that a major formative influence during my early 20s was Arthur Frommer's book, Europe on $25 A Day. https://foodanddine.com/edibles-potables-all-the-food-was-greek-to-me-if-not-to-my-travel-guru/ Earlier this year I fetched my 1985 edition of Frommer's seminal guidebook,...

Edibles & Potables: Let’s go Dutch in Arnhem

The city of Arnhem, Netherlands is a place I've never been—that is, until 2 October 2023. Arnhem is perhaps best known to history-inclined Americans as the site of a World War II battle in...

Grub at Gravely: An in-house food menu at Gravely Brewing

F&D's fortnightly "Hip Hops" beer column appeared as scheduled yesterday, but just as it was being finished and readied for publication, Gravely Brewing Company (514 Baxter Ave.) announced its new Grub at Gravely menu. Let's...