Edibles & Potables: Cuisine Nissarde — or, what to eat in Nice during Carnaval
I've noted oft times before that a major formative influence during my early 20s was Arthur Frommer's book, Europe on $25 A Day.
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Earlier this year I fetched my 1985 edition of Frommer's seminal guidebook,...
Rewind: “The hallowed Czech and Slovak family tradition of yuletide carp”
To be perfectly honest, today's post is a rerun of a previous "Edibles & Potables," occasioned in part by the nostalgia unleashed last week at "Hip Hops." Also, the week before Christmas can be...
Edibles & Potables: Scrooge’s journey of enlightenment begins in 3…2…1…
Scrooge (1970) is the musical version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, starring the late, great Albert Finney. In the truest sense of "literally", studios don't make films like this any longer.
Finney...
Edibles & Potables: “New Year’s food traditions around the world”
On January 1, 2010 my wife and I spent the day in Nuremberg, Germany (our flight home departed on the 2nd).
We had spent the entirety of the holiday season in Bamberg, learning the hard...
Edibles & Potables: Shrimp, potatoes and ale, via Belgium’s coastal “Tram 0”
This Belgian coast is hard to love and easy to scorn. It lacks the rugged profundity of Scandinavian fjords or the fractal chaos of Ireland’s Atlantic coast. Its colour palette is grey-beige and its...
Edibles & Potables Encore: The Ulster Fry … and Northern Irish cuisine
The Spring 2024 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
Originally published on March 19, 2023.
St. Patrick's Day in...
All about Boxing Day (2022 remix)
Boxing Day is a Christmas season custom originating in Britain, and persisting in former British colonial dominions, with the earliest known reference coming in 1833. There are two main theories to explain this observance.
One...
Happy Thanksgiving, not to omit the sheer grandeur of “Thankspigging”
From our family to yours, Food & Dining Magazine wishes all of our readers a warm, happy Thanksgiving. For a bit of holiday humor, the following exploration from Jay Forman first appeared in this...
The Taste Bud: Why are memes trying to ruin Kevin’s life?
Most Friday mornings, F&D is linking to prolific local writer Kevin Gibson’s “The Taste Bud” column, including new posts as well as ones from the past.
Indignation never goes out of fashion, and the planet's...
Edibles & Potables: “The Blue Zones American Kitchen”
We dined out twice yesterday, something that seldom occurs in our household unless we're on holiday. For lunch I restricted myself to a turkey sandwich and potato salad, but tipped the sensibility scale by...
