Thursday, April 25, 2024

Edibles & Potables: The LEE Initiative’s “rebuilding” objectives for 2021

For those who follow The LEE Initiative's page at Facebook, the past week will be remembered for stories of the organization's current weather-related relief efforts in Texas. It honestly boggles the mind to take...

Edibles & Potables: The complicated story of Durban curry

Edibles & Potables is Food & Dining's weekly Sunday brunch for digressions culled from the world outside our metro Louisville coverage area. Today's topic is Durban curry, but first a confession. Prior to Friday morning, I'd...

Edibles & Potables: Cuban in Tampa, BBQ in KC, and not a bowl in...

It's the first-ever Super Bowl Sunday to occur during a pandemic. In my household, the championship gala tends to be the only football game we watch all season, and 2021 is no exception. Our...

Edibles & Potables: Bills of fare for Pompeii’s last meals (with bonus aphrodisiacs)

"In the ancient Greco-Roman world, a thermopolium (plural thermopolia), from Greek θερμοπώλιον (thermopōlion), i.e. cook-shop, literally 'a place where (something) hot is sold', was a commercial establishment where it was possible to purchase ready-to-eat...

Edibles & Potables: The Ham Belt (2012)

Today's installment of "Edibles & Potables" requires a preface. "The Ham Belt," written by longtime Food & Dining Magazine contributor Greg Gapsis, appeared in our Winter 2012 print edition. The story is dated in...

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...

Stews to chase the winter blues

Editor's note: The following column by Ron Mikulak is an encore from May 8, 2017, with the notion of chasing the blues away striking me as particularly relevant today.  When winter winds nip at the...

Edibles & Potables: UNESCO’s foodie Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

“The hawker centers are wonderlands of Chinese, Indian, and Malay specialties. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel making food porn in Singapore.” -- Anthony Bourdain in 2017 In Singapore, “hawker culture” refers to 114 food...

Edibles & Potables: A top ten list for “the year when everything changed”

Edibles & Potables debuted on January 5, 2020. It's the weekly F&D slot on Sunday morning, as intended for news and views outside the range of our customary coverage area in metro Louisville. My goal...

Edibles & Potables: “The festive season has summoned every weeping ghost”

 Man shall not live by bread alone, but popcorn and eggnog will suffice until the main courses arrive. Last year on Christmas Eve we watched two holiday-themed films. First came the somber and elegiac The...