Edibles & Potables: Bon Appetit Kentucky Appalachia Trail

There's a long, long trail a-winding
Into the land of my dreams,
Where the nightingales are singing
And a white moon beams:
There's a long, long night of waiting
Until my dreams all come true;
Till the day when I'll...
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...
Edibles & Potables: Cannabis cuisine in Thailand? “THC is the new MSG”
Each Sunday at F&D we consider culinary topics from the dusty "edibles and potables" three-ring binder, as existing outside the boundaries of our metropolitan Louisville coverage area, and you can rest assured that cannabis...
Edibles & Potables: Sorghum is for popping, too
Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to...
Edibles & Potables: All about Boxing Day
Boxing Day is a Christmas season custom originating in Britain, and persisting in former British colonial dominions, with the earliest known reference coming in 1833. There are two main theories to explain this observance.
One...
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....
Scrooge soon begins his annual journey of enlightenment (with good eating)
Scrooge (1970) is the musical version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, starring the late Albert Finney. In the truest sense of "literally", studios don't make films like this any longer.
Finney is...
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...
Edibles & Potables: The hallowed Czech and Slovak family tradition of yuletide carp
We'll be gathering around the holiday table for — wait, what was that again?
My Christmas season in 1991 was spent in the city of Košice (KOSH-it-sə) Czechoslovakia, population circa 225,000, located near the Ukraine...
Silly Axe Café’s allergen- and gluten-free Christmas plan
As preface, the Silly Axe Café (2216 Dundee Road; 502-290-7197), which opened in 2019, describes itself thusly:
Dedicated gluten free restaurant featuring a rotating menu, 12 hard to find craft ciders on tap, chef driven,...
