Sunday, July 13, 2025

Letters from Lelia’s Kitchen: “Cooking with Eggs” (and shakshuka lessons)

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/_vol_85_spring_2025/40 In our current print edition, Lelia Gentle recounts a shakshuka lesson offered by a helpful North African cab driver in New York City: "You...

Edibles & Potables: South Shore bar pies are “sort of like snowflakes”

The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online...

Edibles & Potables: Tampa and the advent of the Cuban sandwich

The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands...

Edibles & Potables: Traditional Albanian fare at Tak-Fak in Tirana

You'll have kindly noted a previous missive addressing Albanian cuisine. We returned late last week from the Balkan Mystery Tour 2025, a marvelous (if...

VegKentucky, or Kristina Addington’s post-V-Grits project

You'll recognize the VegKentucky page at Facebook as being artfully repurposed from its previous identity as V-Grits. At the end of December, the Courier...

Edibles & Potables: 31 years of Albanian cuisine (1994 to 2025)

It will have taken a mere three decades for an encore to "Albania 1994," with the long-awaited 2025 freshening-up orientation about to get underway...

Edibles & Potables: Might there be Cincinnati-style chili in the North Macedonian homeland?

Boy, do I know how to pick balmy midwinter holiday destinations. Not exactly, but what we'll be lacking in sun-drenched beaches, there'll be compensation in...

Edibles & Potables: On tariffs, food costs and rough sailing ahead

"Many people think of California as the garlic capital of the world when, in fact, most of our garlic comes from China" — Southern...

The Greater Louisville Food Council’s roadmap for food in neighborhoods

As "Dry January" mercifully concludes, allow me to catch up to some old "foodie" news, as reported by Morgan Watkins at Louisville Public Media....

Edibles & Potables: Pie & mash with jellied eel? Don’t mention the “G” word

 With advancing age has come a graceful acceptance of my latent Anglophilia. Much of this serenity owes to the creeping realization that proficiency in...