Friday, April 26, 2024

Edibles & Potables: Carp(e) diem, or a Christmas in Slovakia, 1991

As a reminder, "Edibles & Potables" is F&D's Sunday slot for food and dining topics that range outside our customary Metro Louisville coverage area, and every other Wednesday (more or less) is given over...

The LEE Initiative’s and Pints&union’s restaurant workers relief effort is helping Southern Indiana

Three weeks ago Pints & Union (114 E. Market, New Albany) was awarded a "Grant for Good" and joined around 20+ other restaurants nationwide that comprise the front line of the LEE Initiative's Restaurant...

Edibles & Potables: The Ham Belt (2012)

Today's installment of "Edibles & Potables" requires a preface. "The Ham Belt," written by longtime Food & Dining Magazine contributor Greg Gapsis, appeared in our Winter 2012 print edition. The story is dated in...

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...

Fried chicken sandwiches? Just hold the nihilism and add some localism

Earlier this year the chef, writer and podcaster Soleil Ho replaced veteran restaurant critic Michael Bauer at the San Francisco Chronicle.   Ho's short essay this week addressing the Popeyes chicken sandwich social media phenomenon is...

$10 Challenge — Sitar Indian Restaurant

Not your everyday buffet. Sitar delivers flavor and variety, all piping hot. My undergraduate years sowed the seeds of my frugality. Scholarships took care of my major college expenses, but the paycheck I received from the...

Robin Garr’s Taj Palace review at LEO: Great food and pandemic precautions

Louisville's culinary scene generates ample media coverage, and justifiably so. In my view these newspapers, magazines, web sites and social media feeds each have something to recommend them (although yes, there are exceptions), the...

The LEE Initiative and Ashbourne Farms combine to launch the Regrow Program

"The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense." -- Tom Clancy The period of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a plethora of pretending, but I'm not going to pretend there was any...

Beer Cheese Is A Many-Splendoured Thing

The Czechs know their beer cheese. Traditionally those afflicted with hunger and thirst could sniff their way from pub to pub, because the best beer cheese in Prague or České Budějovice advertised itself on...

Edibles & Potables: Sorghum is for popping, too

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to...