Sunday, May 26, 2024

Barn8’s Alison Settle has New Year’s braised greens and cornbread recipes

Collard greens are a late-season crop and can be harvested well into winter, making them ideal for holiday eating. Appropriately, collards are a New Year's Day tradition in the American South, along with the dish...

Romantic interludes abide, aided by Volare Italian Ristorante’s curbside pickup and delivery services

Kentucky's and Indiana's restaurants are adapting to on-premise restrictions by emphasizing carryouts, curbside pickups and deliveries. We're maintaining and regularly updating a list -- Louisville Restaurants Offering Carryout and Delivery -- and delving into...

Everyday Kitchen charcuterie tips, Lodgic Everyday Community gift cards

Over the weekend I popped into Aldi to see if their delicious German curried herring was in stock (alas, no such luck) and saw an entire display devoted to charcuterie supplies, reminding me of...

Before It Opens — Agave & Rye

Before Agave & Rye opens for lunch on Sunday, February 9th, founder Yavonne Sarber wants to make a few things clear. First of all, this is not your run-of-the-mill taco joint. "I try to keep...

The Taste Bud: Kevin praises Chocolate Pizza Company’s Peanut Butter Wings

During the course of our lives, we learn that humanity's innate saltiness can be obscured by sweet exterior flavors and textures; so it is that the secret to Peanut Butter Wings is the Ruffles-style...

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...

Edibles & Potables: Seven essential cookbooks, selected by The Economist

In 1988, I was fortunate (?) to land my first and only "real" corporate job abstracting periodicals at the now long-defunct UMI Data-Courier on 5th Street in Louisville, across the alley from Standard Gravure....

Edibles & Potables: Haute cuisine in the Fallout Shelter Bistro

 Recommended musical accompaniment for this week's episode of "Edibles & Potables" can be found at Atomic Platters, a classic audio compilation from 2005. 'Atomic Platters' is the result of a years-in-the-making musical 'Manhattan Project' that...

Edibles & Potables: Among the autumn rituals, persimmons

Probably a bit early, but that's okay. I grew up in the Southern Indiana countryside, which in 1976 was being busily repurposed into residential suburbs. We had pasture and some woods, raised Angus, kept a...

$10 Challenge: Wild Ginger Sushi & Fusion

This challenge is a failure that is indeed a success. As the title suggests, my goal is to spend just $10 on a meal at a local Louisville restaurant. However, the expanded bento box...