Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Edibles & Potables: Marmite and the unanticipated persistence of umami

In 2011, the British Broadcasting Corporation published a list of ten things "you'll love/hate to know" about Marmite, the longtime British culinary staple which, we must concede from the outset, is a divider of...

America’s CEO Tim Laird talks about Derby entertaining with WDRB’s Keith Kaiser

Tim and Lori Laird have served as Food & Dining Magazine's Entertaining Editors-at-Large almost from the publication's inception, authoring their “Easy Entertaining” columns and periodically opening their home to staff meetings that tend to...

Edibles & Potables: Bet you didn’t know it’s National Muffin Day today

Edibles & Potables is our weekly website slot for the consideration of food and dining news outside F&D's customary Louisville metropolitan coverage area. The findings herein might be sublime or ridiculous, with the latter becoming...

Edibles & Potables: In consideration of “Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices,...

Nothing could be more common than the salt and pepper on our tables. In our cuisine these two seasonings are always paired. Their containers are as alike as two eggs, indistinguishable except for the...

The Taste Bud: Kevin details his Meat Box encounter at Hilltop Tavern

There is meat to be found in many places hereabouts, but only one Meat Box, as offered at Hilltop Tavern in Clifton. "Technically," writes our friend and colleague Kevin Gibson, "the name is Smokey’s Meat Box,...

APRON announces emergency fund to help restaurant employees diagnosed with COVID-19

Louisville’s national reputation as a culinary center is driven by the creative work of its independent restaurants, the rich trove of small businesses that entertain and inspire us, meal after meal. These are small...

Edibles & Potables: “The restaurant remains a symbol of freedom.”

Back in March, when my lifelong natural habitat was temporarily made off limits in an effort to flatten COVID-19's curve, the first words that came to my mind actually had been spoken by someone...

Home Cuisine launches senior meals with the help of Chef Ellen Gill McCarty

Since 2004, Sandy Pike, her daughter Mae, and the chefs at Home Cuisine have prepped, cooked, and delivered more than a million meals. We count government officials, prominent business owners, actors, students, and busy...

The entire Bourbons Bistro menu is available for carryout

Over the coming weeks, Food & Dining Magazine will be collecting and posting updates about delivery and pickup dining options across the entire area. A catch-all carryout post is coming soon; as work proceeds,...

New Wave Burrito Now Selling Bottled Hot Sauce

It's been four years since New Wave Burrito owners Matt Flip and Nate Sturdivant began late-night delivery of their burritos out of Eiderdown. The journey since has included expansions one step at a time:...