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...
Edibles & Potables: I got food, but I’m not a foodie
To paraphrase Esquire's Charles P. Pierce: pertinent musical accompaniment to the last post of the week, by The Killers. Sunday is a time to range outside our usual coverage area and examine items of...
Robin Garr’s Taj Palace review at LEO: Great food and pandemic precautions
Louisville's culinary scene generates ample media coverage, and justifiably so. In my view these newspapers, magazines, web sites and social media feeds each have something to recommend them (although yes, there are exceptions), the...
Edibles & Potables: Food deserts, a triumph of social engineering?
In late June Louisville Metro Council passed a budget for the city's next fiscal year (spoiler alert: the police department was not "defunded" and rent was not canceled). Several local news outlets caught an...
Letter from the Editor: Our adaptive carry-out and cooking routines feel both new and...
Letter from the Editor, by Marty Rosen
We cook up a kettle of dried beans nearly every week. Sometimes we use local farm market beans. Often we splurge on shipments of heirloom varieties from Rancho...
The LEE Initiative and Ashbourne Farms combine to launch the Regrow Program
"The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense."
-- Tom Clancy
The period of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a plethora of pretending, but I'm not going to pretend there was any...
Afternoon Archive: A hankering for biscotti with after-dinner espresso
Biscotti strike me as the perfect adult cookie. The Italian provenance gives them a slightly cosmopolitan aura, but it is the crunchy, sandy texture, its not-too-sweet flavor, its unusual shape, which makes it perfect...
Board and You Bistro & Wine Bar prepares to broaden the charcuterie in New...
If it's true that we eat with our eyes (these writers say yes, we do), then Zack Flanagan and Sean Lara may have devised a perfectly legal means to print money.
Their Board and You...
Afternoon Archive: For starters, earthy salbutes are addictive
Stuffed or topped? No matter, because salbutes are delicious. As of June 22, the Mayan Cafe has reopened for dining inside; read the restaurant's moving letter to Louisville at the web site. The Mayan...
Edibles & Potables: Wet markets, food safety, food justice and Halal localism
The scene resembled a kind of farm-to-table fantasy: the owner of a family business, delivering food and organic waste to customers he knew personally, providing a functioning, affordable alternative to the industrial meat system....
