Saturday, May 4, 2024

Tips on choosing your personal coffee

Since my passion for coffee is solidly evident, friends and acquaintances approach me asking me for recommendations, or a personal favorite of my own. The task can be a challenge. Coffee is produced in...

Why Bison?

From ancient forests and savannahs of Kentucky comes a native food that helps define our local cuisine as naturally delicious. There was a blip on the culinary radar a decade or so ago, when chefs...

Humor — A Short List of Things that Restaurateurs Hate

These days, everyone knows who the chefs are. But does anyone know anything about the restaurateurs behind them? Chances are you don’t. Who would want to, anyway? They rarely boast full-body food-related tattoos, never...

The State of Louisville Brewing.

Resident beer expert Roger Baylor takes a look at how far our local brewing has come... The Kentucky Derby has taken place right here in Louisville every year since 1875. From 1979 through 1992, there...

Letter from the Editor: On the backstretch (maybe) near the far turn

Last Saturday and Sunday, my wife, Mary, and I donned our masks, picked up flyers, and spent the mornings knocking on doors (maybe a hundred by the end of the weekend) in Clifton and...

Humor — Thankspigging: the beginning of a new tradition.

The Thankspigging Manifesto. On November twenty-something, most Americans will sit down to a Thanksgiving dinner. They will eat turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, dressings and casseroles. They will finish with pumpkin pie, wipe their mouths,...

Easy Entertaining — Farmers’ Market Inspired Elegant but Easy Summer Party

We like what late summer here in the Ohio Valley provides us for parties — long, lazy afternoons and evenings; patios and decks ideal for grilling and eating al fresco; sitting in the dark...

Letter from the Editor: Our adaptive carry-out and cooking routines feel both new and...

Letter from the Editor, by Marty Rosen We cook up a kettle of dried beans nearly every week. Sometimes we use local farm market beans. Often we splurge on shipments of heirloom varieties from Rancho...

Hip Hops — Gordon Biersch: Still Leading with Lager

Märzen, known as Oktoberfest in its autumnal guise, is an Old World style of lager beer originating in the German state of Bavaria. Talk is cheap, so let’s have a sip — strictly for research...

“A Taste of Easy Entertaining Cookbooks” in the current issue of F&D

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/_vol_76_winter_2022/40 Our current Food & Dining Magazine quarterly print edition is Winter 2022 (Vol 76; December, January and February). It’s free to readers, and can be found at food and dining establishments all over town—or just hop...