Ideas for pizza on the grill — just add social distancing
Tim and Lori Laird are Food & Dining Magazine’s officially designated Entertaining Editors-at-Large, co-writers of our “Easy Entertaining” column, and in essence professional crowd-pleasers.
As we're all aware, at the present time the objective is...
Letter from the Editor: Soft openings, and a few harder ones
Soft openings are a common ritual in the food and dining business. Every smart restaurateur knows that first impressions are critical to the success of a business – especially in the era of social...
Cooking at home? Don’t follow the trends — rediscover the classics
Don’t Follow the trends. Rediscover the classics. Or, whatever happened to boeuf bourguignon?
One of the more entertainingly silly food stories that appear regularly in newspapers’ food sections and cooking magazines is the annual prognostications...
Easy Entertaining—Tailgating in the Comfort of Your Own Home
Tailgating is always a fun occasion to get friends together to cheer on your favorite teams. In the winter months football is still in season with the Big Game coming in February, and basketball...
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...
Humor: Disruptive restaurant tech that I’d like to see
Ironically, the biggest disrupter of all for the food service industry has proven to be viral (quite literally) and not technological -- something our columnist could not have foreseen only a year ago when...
Cork 101— What wines are undervalued?
Our challenge this issue for our wine guys was to select wines that they thought were “undervalued.” That turned out to be an ambiguous term, or one that has wide latitude for those in...
Easy Entertaining — Easy Kebab Party
It’s hard to beat a cookout for casual entertainment. The mood is relaxed, never rushed, and the food is informal, which makes for a perfect opportunity to grill kebabs.
This ancient means of grilling food...
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...
Sweet tea is the house wine of the South
It starts making its appearance as you cross that mythical, yet definitive boundary that is the acclaimed Gateway to the South — the Mason-Dixon line. It is found in the land where the term...
