The Taste Bud: A victim of hot wing abuse tells his story
If you're aware of our colleague Kevin Gibson’s “The Taste Bud” column, you already know that several terms regularly spring to mind when considering Kevin's ongoing exploration of hot peppers, sauces and wings, including...
Barn8’s fascinating coronavirus coping mechanisms after a delayed opening
The pandemic's "shelter at home" measures have prompted improvised reinvention on the part of numerous existing restaurants located in metropolitan Louisville, but what if an entity is faced with overhauling the business plan before...
Fried fish for Lent? Kevin Gibson has a list
At his web site, our friend and F&D contributor Kevin Gibson has updated his blog post from 2023, offering a fine overview of fried fish options from local restaurants this year during Lent.
10 Tasty...
Edibles & Potables: Tunde Wey’s radical thinking about restaurants
On Sundays we like to range outside our usual coverage area and examine items of broader “edible and potable” interest.
The phrase "winners write the history books" may or may not have originated with Winston...
Edibles & Potables: Humble pie for Thanksgiving? Um, no
Editor's note: This post was originally published on November 21, 2021. The cover photo shows the author exiting a pub in Yorkshire in 2001; there was no humble pie, but the cask-conditioned ale inspired...
Edibles & Potables: Louisville Burger Week is here. Or is it Louisville Sandwich Week?
Louisville “two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between” Week begins tomorrow (Monday 18 July).
https://foodanddine.com/its-the-return-of-louisville-burger-week-july-18-24/
Strictly speaking, it's simple. Burgers and hot dogs are, in fact, sandwiches.
The answer...
Edibles & Potables: The rise of the Australian flat white (coffee, not paint)
Apparently I don't get out much; then again, perhaps the flat white has not made the long trek to come from abroad and roost amid Louisville's caffeinated trend-consciousness.
A flat white is a coffee drink consisting...
Cooking with Ron — Lenten Fish Ideas (recipes)
Our Ron Mikulak considers two questions. First, how did Lenten Friday's piscatorial calendrical tradition begin? And second, besides, frying it in oil, what are some other ways to cook fish?
I remember from my childhood...
Edibles & Potables: Let’s go Dutch in Arnhem
The city of Arnhem, Netherlands is a place I've never been—that is, until 2 October 2023. Arnhem is perhaps best known to history-inclined Americans as the site of a World War II battle in...
At The Foil, an in-depth look at Louisville’s digital food scene
"Is that a real poncho? I mean, is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
-- Frank Zappa
Zappa's inquiries beg a question, because what exactly is the nature of reality?
Isn’t it enough...
