Thursday, April 18, 2024

The J and Bernheim Forest offer a discussion and dinner at Monnik on November...

"The J" is shorthand for Louisville's Jewish Community Center, founded in 1890 and open to the entire Louisville community. On Tuesday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m., The J’s Jewish Outdoor, Food, and Environmental Education...

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...

Sirocco Ridge Farm to launch house-made cheese and gelato in Henryville

"Hip Hops" will return next week. In Sicily, a sirocco is a hot wind across the Mediterranean from Northern Africa. In Henryville, Sirocco Ridge Farm represents winds of change. Sustainably and humanely grown livestock, no-till and...

Edibles & Potables: Elizabeth David and the noble art of food writing

Earlier this year Destinations Booksellers closed after 15 years in business. As a coda of sorts, an extended going-out-of-business sale allowed the regulars their opportunity to share memories with the store's owners and each...

Holiday meals for delivery from Home Cuisine

Meal delivery services are where the convenience of dining at home meets restaurant quality. The utility of meal delivery touched numerous bases even before the pandemic, including the obvious benefits for the homebound and...

Scrooge commences his annual journey of enlightenment

Scrooge (1970) is the musical version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, starring the late, great Albert Finney. In the truest sense of "literally", studios don't make films like this any longer. Finney...

Stews to chase the winter blues

Editor's note: The following column by Ron Mikulak is an encore from May 8, 2017, with the notion of chasing the blues away striking me as particularly relevant today.  When winter winds nip at the...

Edibles & Potables: Who invented the (Francophone) fry?

A friture, baraque à frites or friterie (pronounced ) in French-speaking Belgium and Northern France, or frituur or frietkot in Flanders and the Netherlands, also fritkot in French-speaking Belgium and friture or frietkraam in...

Afternoon Archive: For starters, earthy salbutes are addictive

Stuffed or topped? No matter, because salbutes are delicious. As of June 22, the Mayan Cafe has reopened for dining inside; read the restaurant's moving letter to Louisville at the web site. The Mayan...

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...