The Cure House, now “inside” Leaven Bakery & Bistro in New Albany
Curing is a process where foods, especially meats and fishes, are put through a technique of preservation with the help of certain ingredients such as salt, sugar, nitrites and nitrates. Through this technique, foods...
Edibles & Potables: Marmitako, or “gehiago jan hegaluze gisatua”
(According to the interwebz, "gehiago jan hegaluze gisatua" is Basque for "eat more tuna stew.")
Today's choice of web sites merits an explanation. Going is the former Scott's Cheap Flights, always an excellent source of...
The Taste Bud: “Food Myths People Actually Believe are True”
More and more evidence is surfacing, however, that milk consumption may not only be unhelpful, it might also be detrimental. This is in spite of the fact that the United States Department of Agriculture...
Edibles & Potables: “The Food of a Younger Land,” or what we used to...
It is an understatement to characterize the author Mark Kurlansky as "prolific," and you're invited to peruse Kurlansky's web site and sift through his three dozen titles, the majority of which interest me, including...
The Taste Bud: Kevin details his Meat Box encounter at Hilltop Tavern
There is meat to be found in many places hereabouts, but only one Meat Box, as offered at Hilltop Tavern in Clifton.
"Technically," writes our friend and colleague Kevin Gibson, "the name is Smokey’s Meat Box,...
America’s CEO Tim Laird talks about Derby entertaining with WDRB’s Keith Kaiser
Tim and Lori Laird have served as Food & Dining Magazine's Entertaining Editors-at-Large almost from the publication's inception, authoring their “Easy Entertaining” columns and periodically opening their home to staff meetings that tend to...
The Taste Bud: Kevin will never eat McDonald’s breakfast food again
Our friend and colleague Kevin Gibson explains why he has decided to refrain from McDonald's breakfast food. Being made of sterner stuff, his dog Atticus is likely to continue snacking on sausage patties, and therein...
Verily, unless Kern’s Kitchen bakes it, it’s not Derby-Pie™
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...
Henry Bain’s Sauce: A Derby tradition, but there’s more to the story
The Pendennis Club, founded in 1881, is a private social club in Louisville located at 218 Muhammad Ali Boulevard in a clubhouse built in 1928.
Outside of the club’s current membership, it is probably best...
Tim and Lori Laird: Easy entertaining with a Derby Day brunch
Tim and Lori Laird are Food & Dining Magazine’s officially designated Entertaining Editors-at-Large, co-writers of our “Easy Entertaining” column.
Brunch, the best of breakfast and lunch combined, makes for a great party. It can be celebrated...
