Thursday, April 25, 2024

A digression on sorghum

According to Food & Wine, the differences between molasses and sorghum are considerable and straightforward, even the two "dark-hued sugar substitutes" often seem merged in the public consciousness.     While both sorghum and molasses arrived...

Edibles & Potables: Chef Levon Wallace and FatBelly Pretzel

Edibles & Potables is a Sunday potpourri of food and dining topics.  The Louisville dining community fondly recalls Chef Levon Wallace for his lengthy tenure as executive chef at Proof on Main (702 W. Main...

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...

Edibles & Potables: California’s AB-626 and the legalization of “microenterprise home kitchen operations”

Our home restaurants are representative of the diversity of the community. They address a lot of food desert issues. -- Akshay Prabhu On Sunday, Edibles & Potables is a place to consider items of interest that...

Edibles & Potables: Some news, some notes, and an on-line database of 5,000 historical...

A few items of interest for random Sunday reading ... From Cuisine Noir, there's an initiative to help close the racial equity gap in craft beer. The Crowns & Hops “8 Trill Pils Fund,” is launching...

The thyme is now to turnip for change with a virtual event to benefit...

On Thursday, September 10 there'll be a virtual event to raise funds for the Food Literacy Project and APRON Inc. It's called Turnip for Change , and includes a live toast at the Food...

Meet Farm+House Louisville, an “online, virtual farmers market”

Farm+House Louisville explains itself.  Welcome to Farm+House Louisville! We have curated a virtual hub of local Kentucky artisans, small producers and farmers markets favorites for you to safely shop from your phone with the WhatsGood...

Edibles & Potables: Whole lotta localism in Southern Living’s Cooks of the Year

The future of food? It's female. https://foodanddine.com/the-future-of-food-is-female-live-film-premiere-on-facebook-is-july-26/ Unsurprisingly, we find that Kentucky is amply represented on the list of Southern Living's 2020 Cooks of the Year.    https://www.facebook.com/TukTukLex/posts/1185167898533613?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARB0EI9IpFDX-ye80VRI8V5sPRqD2_qLPsYL3Ez3hfwhqEbvoRxAamAA2vZThXHUzeT9paZDq4fJRT5LPr73N_Q8YXKEa6xJGZ6AkIEzF3Xh6axtVfcvmEmqImjB0eHKQvVgJN2VXUL8cjDAhsI8G0VaeAs1jkbiL1tr5R18rIpYn6MhANn6d5rVF8aLFCvFdys_cOD52aD7diXQtq3jI1Zdj4ccqKpkTnbBS6eWAwhToFwQWeJ-5Un4mKjnphbYAAun538ttg72zingeHOGb9Wwwgatfr3hC8vx0gRX_Wud9etK7EACxzbVXPRXAOHtgabdv-1aGgfQgmleNZ4yI58OZbF47UZYxrSWPwpehWQkAu0&__tn__=-R Samantha Fore, Tuk Tuk Sri Lankan Bites  Like many Southern chefs,...

Edibles & Potables: Fixing our fragile food systems

As a non-profit and portal for education that advocates "for a radically new way of thinking about the way we build our world," the Strong Towns movement isn't solely about food. But food, and...

Edibles & Potables: Six links for good reads, no waiting

"Edibles & Potables" is a place for peering past the periphery to items of interest outside our customary metro Louisville coverage area. Today, potpourri. Earlier in the year, in desperate need of pretending I was...