Thursday, March 28, 2024

Reopening realities: “Masked waiters, half-empty dining rooms, and mobile ordering”?

Coming on the heels of yesterday's guest commentary at Food & Dining Magazine (Restaurateur Chad Coulter on beating COVID and reopening Kentucky) comes this far-ranging piece at Eater: There Will Be No Grand Reopening...

Check these lists for last-minute Easter Sunday carryouts and delivery

The coranavirus pandemic has ensured this won't be an ordinary Easter weekend. Then again, it isn't the first time that circumstances have interrupted tradition. Through the ages people have made do with what they...

Ideas for pizza on the grill — just add social distancing

Tim and Lori Laird are Food & Dining Magazine’s officially designated Entertaining Editors-at-Large, co-writers of our “Easy Entertaining” column, and in essence professional crowd-pleasers. As we're all aware, at the present time the objective is...

Edibles and Potables: Victory gardens return, channeling energy into dirt

Victory gardens are making a comeback. "A Victory Garden today can be any garden with a purpose that you define personally," writes historian Rose Hayden-Smith. "That purpose can be a family project to raise food...

SOU! Southern Kitchen & Bar covers curbside

The Spring 2020 issue of Food & Dining Magazine hit the streets a month ago (it only seems like last century) and almost immediately our mission expanded to daily updates aimed at informing readers...

You don’t need a crowd to grill outside the box

Tim and Lori Laird are Food & Dining Magazine's officially designated Entertaining Editors-at-Large, the writers of our "Easy Entertaining" column, and in essence professional crowd-pleasers. At the present time America is quelling crowds to corral...

Edibles & Potables: Habana Blues, and how to eat carryouts with your eyes

We're tracking Louisville area restaurants offering carryout and delivery, and updating the list frequently. https://foodanddine.com/louisville-restaurants-still-in-service-for-carryout-and-delivery/ The internet instructs us that at least two "New Wave" senses, vestibular function and proprioception, have been added to the foundational...

Curbside eats from the Brown Hotel, including the new Hot Brown Pot Pie

The Brown Hotel's archetypal Hot Brown is as much a symbol of Louisville as the Twin Spires at Churchill Downs, but while the Kentucky Derby has been postponed until September 5, Hot Browns are...

Get your groceries at River House Restaurant & Raw Bar

Louisville area restaurants are giving free rein to the impromptu innovation of their business models during this time of coronavirus-inspired dislocation. They're pouring growlers, boxing ready-to-bake family meals, assembling take-away cocktail kits and functioning...

Cooking with Ron — Lenten Fish Ideas (recipes)

Our Ron Mikulak considers two questions. First, how did Lenten Friday's piscatorial calendrical tradition begin? And second, besides, frying it in oil, what are some other ways to cook fish? I remember from my childhood...