Sunday, May 5, 2024

Letters from Lelia’s Kitchen: Using hot and smoky chipotle peppers

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/f_d_fall_2023/26 F&D's home cooking columnist Lelia Gentle writes that "depending on whom you ask, the chili has three designations: it is a fruit, it is a vegetable, and it is a spice." One of her...

The Bar Belle: Surveying the Louisville nightlife mainstays

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/f_d_fall_2023/16 In our Summer 2023 issue, Sara "The Bar Belle" Havens "poured out a little love for all the bars that once held court in Louisville's nightlife but are no longer with us." https://foodanddine.com/the-bar-belle-two-decades-too-many-memories/ This time around...

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...

$10 Challenge: Check’s Cafe

The gentrification of Germantown is on display across the two and four-tops of Check’s Café. Thirtysomethings new to Germantown sit elbow to elbow with boomers who may have been visiting Check’s for decades. But the...

$10 Challenge: Me Gusta Latin Kitchen

Good food shouldn’t be a luxury. In this column, I set out to prove that it is possible to eat a high-quality, low-cost meal within Louisville's diverse and expanding food scene. My goal is...

Afternoon Archive: As American as French apple tarts

As Ron Mikulak explains, the two-crust apple pie familiar to generations of Americans can trace its origins to the European single-crust fruit tart.  --- An earworm from the past has haunted me lately, a 50-year old...

Humor — Save the Glutens: A Public Service Announcement

I write to you today to bring your attention to a terrible plight, one that exists in plain view, yet remains unquestioned by many in our great nation. I speak to you of the...

$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...

$10 Challenge — The Monkey Wrench.

The Monkey Wrench is a chameleon of a business that morphs into whatever its patrons need it to be. This versatile venue serves up good food, cold drinks, live music and on Tuesdays, $5...

Afternoon Archive: Ron’s do-it-yourself weekend brunch

It's an "Afternoon Archive" when we thumb through past print editions of Food & Dining Magazine and take another look. In this pandemic-mandated period of social distancing, one can't help noticing how socially communal...