Thursday, April 25, 2024

Tim and Lori Laird: Easy entertaining with a Derby Day brunch

Tim and Lori Laird are Food & Dining Magazine’s officially designated Entertaining Editors-at-Large, co-writers of our “Easy Entertaining” column. Brunch, the best of breakfast and lunch combined, makes for a great party. It can be celebrated...

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...

Edibles & Potables: “Sometimes you play for the chitlins”

Atlas Obscura defines chitlins. They're American history, the culture of the enslaved, and yes, the edible "parts" of a pig. But chitlins are greater than the sum of mere pork bits. Enslaved people had to sustain...

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...

Henry Bain’s Sauce is a Derby tradition, but there’s more to the story

The Pendennis Club, founded in 1881, is a private social club in Louisville located at 218 Muhammad Ali Boulevard in a clubhouse built in 1928.   Outside of the club’s current membership, it is probably...

The Taste Bud: Kevin will never eat McDonald’s breakfast food again

Our friend and colleague Kevin Gibson explains why he has decided to refrain from McDonald's breakfast food. Being made of sterner stuff, his dog Atticus is likely to continue snacking on sausage patties, and therein...

Edibles & Potables: The Ulster Fry, and other aspects of Northern Irish cuisine

The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. St. Patrick's Day in America is a time for partying—good, bad or indifferent....

Fried fish for Lent? Kevin Gibson has a list

At his web site, our friend and F&D contributor Kevin Gibson has updated his blog post from 2023, offering a fine overview of fried fish options from local restaurants this year during Lent. 10 Tasty...

Edibles & Potables: “I got food, but I’m not a foodie” (2020)

I don't always repeat previous posts, but when I do, it generally occurs for one of two reasons: first, that there hasn't been time to think of anything different to write, or second, the...

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...