Friday, March 29, 2024

Letter from the Editor: Third party food delivery apps under the microscope

A headline in last weekend’s Washington Post was stark: “Restaurants are barely surviving. Delivery apps will kill them.” To many Food & Dining Magazine readers this may come as a surprise. Over the last few...

Afternoon Archive: Q & A with Chef David Danielson of Churchill Downs

We're combing the archives for items of interest, and this 2014 interview by Michael L. Jones with Chef David Danielson remains fascinating. How does he feed all those people at Churchill Downs on a...

Afternoon Archive: A hankering for biscotti with after-dinner espresso

Biscotti strike me as the perfect adult cookie. The Italian provenance gives them a slightly cosmopolitan aura, but it is the crunchy, sandy texture, its not-too-sweet flavor, its unusual shape, which makes it perfect...

Letter from the Editor: Dining rituals, before and after

It was two months ago, Monday March 16, that the order came restricting Kentucky restaurants to carry-out, delivery, and drive-through service. This weekend they’ll reopen with limited indoor and outdoor seating and a thorough...

Humor — Our First Mardi Gras

Earlier this year my wife and I decided that, since we didn't already have enough problems, we should open yet another bakery. But, unlike our other locations, this one would have a secret ingredient...

$10 Challenge — Annie’s Cafe: Vietnamese restaurants warm welcome

"It's hard to find a place where everybody knows your name when you're a vagabond." I've lived in seven different cities since I graduated from high school. By the time I became familiar with my...

Humor — So why shouldn’t veggies glow in the dark?

It is no secret that guys avoid eating fruits and vegetables whenever possible. And who can blame them? Frankly, eating produce can be extremely dangerous. Nature has spent millions of years equipping her plants with...

Who are you going to believe, me or your own two eyes?

Originally published in the Winter 2015 issue of Food & Dining Magazine. When Food & Dining Magazine published its inaugural edition in 2003, there hadn’t yet been an American Craft Beer Week. It came along three years later. As for the...
Royce Neeley of The Neeley Family Distillery

The Neeley Family — 11 Generations of Whiskey Makers

The Story Behind the Neeley Family Distillery  On a fateful August day in 1906, in Owsley County, Kentucky, fourteen-year-old Leonard Neeley stood behind a tree with a gun in his hand just outside the home...

Letter from the Editor: You have a choice

In 1931, Louisville native Louis D. Brandeis was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States when a case known as New State Ice Co. v Liebmann appeared on the docket. The...