Edibles & Potables: Deep dives into Dijon mustard with Emily Monaco
Edibles & Potables is a Sunday morning repository for items that fall outside our Louisville metro coverage area.Â
A few months ago, I bookmarked a link to an article about a mustard shortage, spotlighting mustard...
The J and Bernheim Forest offer a discussion and dinner at Monnik on November...
"The J" is shorthand for Louisville's Jewish Community Center, founded in 1890 and open to the entire Louisville community. On Tuesday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m., The J’s Jewish Outdoor, Food, and Environmental Education...
The LEE Initiative launches JCPS “Family Meal” program
If it seems we've had a lot to say about The LEE Initiative during the cataclysmic COVID-19 pandemic year of 2020, it's only because the The LEE Initiative keeps doing something about it.
First came...
Edibles & Potables: Does andouillette subvert culinary subterfuge?
The root word is familiar to most of us.
Andouille is a coarse-grained smoked meat made using pork, pepper, onions, and seasonings. Andouille is French in origin, but has also been brought to Louisiana by...
Edibles & Potables: “The tradition of eggs at Easter”
Our helpful meme places the egg in Ishtar's domain, but Ishtar doesn't seem to be connected to eggs in any explicit way. However, there are plenty of other older traditions that involve the egg...
Edibles & Potables: Is it a good idea to serve humble pie for Thanksgiving?
Edibles & Potables is here for you, engine idling at the intersection of humility and offal. An explanation is needed, and we can always rely on Madonna to jump-start the conversation.
"Ultimately it boils down...
Edibles & Potables: We got the beets—raw, pickled, roasted, or stewed

The menu at Lennie's in Bloomington, Indiana includes a Wild Beet Spinach Salad with strawberries, beets, sugar-roasted pecans, red onions, tomato, and Caprini goat cheese.
Making the topic of "beets" a handy post-it note, we'll...
Easy Entertaining Encore: “Celebrate With Chocolate”
Lori and Tim Laird are F&D's "entertaining editors at-large," and their insights have absolutely no expiration dates. Accordingly, these chocolate tips are as illuminating now as they were when first published in December, 2014.
Who...
Happy Thanksgiving, not to omit the sheer grandeur of “Thankspigging”
From our family to yours, Food & Dining Magazine wishes all of our readers a warm, happy Thanksgiving. For a bit of holiday humor, the following exploration from Jay Forman first appeared in this...
Feeding people in the time of coronavirus
Each morning for the past ten days Americans have awakened to vastly altered realities, not all at once, but via an escalating series of shock waves pertaining to the coronavirus, or COVID-19.
As a personal...
