Easy Entertaining — Cajun Crawfish Boil…Made Easy
Up here, north of Bayou Country, Cajun food is party food, the mark of a celebration that includes spicy sausage and seafood, rice and okra, catfish, gumbo, maque choux...
And the epitome of Cajun party...
Is Guinness good for you? Stout certainly gives ME strength
The Spring 2024 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
Before we applaud the myriad virtues of Guinness —...
Edibles & Potables: A Guinness in Sligo, and the Irish publican as general factotum
The Spring 2024 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
(Today is St. Patrick's Day, 2024. The following was...
Get ready: Tim Laird and Peggy Noe Stevens offer Kentucky Derby party tips
Your daily content provider isn't by nature a Kentucky Derby aficionado in spite of having lived here his entire life.
But I appreciate all of you who are, and the value of the Derby's annual...
Grub at Gravely: An in-house food menu at Gravely Brewing
F&D's fortnightly "Hip Hops" beer column appeared as scheduled yesterday, but just as it was being finished and readied for publication, Gravely Brewing Company (514 Baxter Ave.) announced its new Grub at Gravely menu.
Let's...
America’s CEO Tim Laird talks about Derby entertaining with WDRB’s Keith Kaiser
Tim and Lori Laird have served as Food & Dining Magazine's Entertaining Editors-at-Large almost from the publication's inception, authoring their “Easy Entertaining” columns and periodically opening their home to staff meetings that tend to...
Hip Hops: Five of my biggest failures as a beer purveyor
"You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some. And then there's that little-known third category." — Al Gore
Let’s say you’re a small brewery with a relentless social media presence that includes...
Hip Hops: Hew Ainslie, an early New Albany brewer, Scots nationalist and poet
("Hip Hops" appears a day early this week.)
As referenced in last week’s column, almost two centuries ago Hew Ainslie, an immigrant from Scotland, became New Albany's first known commercial brewer. If there were others...
Hip Hops: Pardon the (fermentation) interruption
During the years 2009 through 2016, when I was still actively engaged in brewery ownership at the New Albanian Brewing Company (NABC), I served as a director on the board of the Brewers of...
The Taste Bud: If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any Doritos...
The Winter 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. Click here to check it out.
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