Thursday, April 18, 2024

Edibles & Potables: Ancient food traditions for the winter solstice (and Saturnalia)

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. For the record,...

Hip Hops: Beers with friends. That’s it. That’s the column.

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. It’s far harder...

Hip Hops: Be thankful for what you got, because …

Each year at Thanksgiving, I give a listen to William DeVaughn's 1974 hit "Be Thankful for What You Got," and spend a few minutes contemplating the stodgy durability of my 2009 Ford Fusion. Verily, I...

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...

Hip Hops: Visiting Netherlands, enjoying beer memories, and coming to a workplace crossroads

Tomorrow there'll be a stand-alone post about the new food menu at Gravely Brewing. In October my wife and I spent quality time in the Dutch cities of Arnhem (to the east, near the German...

Hip Hops: BBC’s 30th; Louisville Beer Week; and a new SoIN beer festival for...

Turning to F&D's Department of Beer Festivals Past, Present and Future...  I. The Past: BBC turns 30. While I concede that this event is not a "fest" as such, I attended a great many beer bashes...

Hip Hops: Copenhagen daydreamin’ (about pilsner and herring, naturally)

I haven’t visited Denmark's wonderful capital city of Copenhagen often enough in recent years. This negligence is being rectified as you read. Copenhagen (population 775,000) has remained a great favorite since my first trip...

“Come on in and have a beer” at The Shop, new to Crescent Hill

As reported in the CJ, The Shop has opened at 2708 Frankfort Ave in Crescent Hill (web; Fb). The web site offers an "eat local" list complete with links to order, and I'm assuming...

Hip Hops: Steins on Main, Hop Atomica in Germantown and flight plans to Europa

Two items today in an abbreviated Hip Hops column. Vacation beckons, beer and herring await, and I'll be relatively brief by my usual standards. However, if longevity-winded reading is what you crave, check out...

Hip Hops: Only in Wisconsin — or an adulatory journey to New Glarus Brewing...

According to Trip Advisor, the New Glarus Brewing Company lands squarely at #1 among 17 things to do in the town of New Glarus, Wisconsin (population 2,266), which was founded in 1845 by people...