Sunday, April 28, 2024

Easy Entertaining: Honey

September is National Honey Month, which is as good hook as any for a timely story, but also a good opportunity to remind ourselves of what a remarkable food honey is all year round....

Rye Not? — The Other American Whiskey

Bourbon drinkers are aware that their favorite whiskey, while distilled from a fermented grain recipe that is mostly made up of corn, usually also contains a fairly large percentage of rye, as well as...

$10 Challenge — Sitar Indian Restaurant

Not your everyday buffet. Sitar delivers flavor and variety, all piping hot. My undergraduate years sowed the seeds of my frugality. Scholarships took care of my major college expenses, but the paycheck I received from the...

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...

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...

Humor — Honey Do

When my wife first got invited up to Providence by the National Honey Board to attend a Honey Summit as an all-expense paid guest chef, I thought it was some kind of trick. Nobody...

Shuckman’s Fish Company

With a ready laugh and sparkle in his eyes, Lewis Shuckman projects an easy-going joie de vivre, perhaps evidence of his satisfaction heading the third generation of a family business founded in 1919. At Shuckman’s Fish Co. &...

Modern Day Moonshine

Shop any decent liquor store and you’ll find a growing number of clear spirits that aren’t gin, vodka or rum. I’m talking moonshine, a debatably named clear liquor and tasty tribute to the turbulent...

Humor — Source This!

If you are growing weary of hyper-descriptive menus making implausible claims about the ancestry of their radishes, you are not alone. I too have noticed this escalating trend, which results in turgid descriptions like...

Afternoon Archive: Food trucks I’d like to see

Who doesn’t love a food truck? Other than the restaurant owner across the street from one, anyway. They are fun, cheap and surprisingly inventive in the fare they offer. Still, like any food service...