Henry Bain’s Sauce: A Derby tradition, but there’s more to the story
The Pendennis Club, founded in 1881, is a private social club in Louisville located at 218 Muhammad Ali Boulevard in a clubhouse built in 1928.
Outside of the club’s current membership, it is probably best...
Merry Christmas, Season’s Greetings, Happy Holidays

What is your family's tradition for food and drink on Christmas Day?
One of my favorite Christmas movies isn't Die Hard. It's the somber and elegiac The Dead (1987), adapted from the novella by James Joyce....
Edibles & Potables: I got food, but I’m not a foodie
To paraphrase Esquire's Charles P. Pierce: pertinent musical accompaniment to the last post of the week, by The Killers. Sunday is a time to range outside our usual coverage area and examine items of...
F&D Recommends Jamaican Jerk Chicken at the Kentucky Reggae Festival (recipe included)
Certain foods bring more to the table than just their good taste. Some foods evoke a range of sensory connections that tie us to experiences and memories.
For me, when I eat the foods of...
Edibles & Potables: Is it time to get rid of calorie counts on menus?
If you're calculating calories — and far be it from my aim today to suggest you should or should not — then we must heed the advice of the ancient philosopher and define our...
Sirocco Ridge Farm to launch house-made cheese and gelato in Henryville
"Hip Hops" will return next week.
In Sicily, a sirocco is a hot wind across the Mediterranean from Northern Africa. In Henryville, Sirocco Ridge Farm represents winds of change.
Sustainably and humanely grown livestock, no-till and...
Cooking with Ron — Fall Foods From the Tree (recipes)
Not so very long ago, fruits and vegetables appeared in markets seasonally - when the food was ripe and tastiest. Strawberries for a few weeks in spring. Sweet peaches and juicy tomatoes during the...
You don’t need a crowd to grill outside the box
Tim and Lori Laird are Food & Dining Magazine's officially designated Entertaining Editors-at-Large, the writers of our "Easy Entertaining" column, and in essence professional crowd-pleasers.
At the present time America is quelling crowds to corral...
Edibles & Potables: Herring makes breakfast better
"A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats."
-- Sholom Aleichem
When it comes to social media, other people go berserk about postings on politics and religion, but...
It’s a Lenten kind of thing: “Frydays Then & Now”
If you're wondering why everyone suddenly seems to be talking about fried fish, Marty Rosen's "Frydays Then & Now" provides the explanation. It was originally published in the Spring 2020 issue of Food &...
