Friday, April 26, 2024

Food & Wine says Nord’s Bakery has Kentucky’s best doughnuts

Nord's Bakery has garnered national exposure by way of Food & Wine, with the magazine honoring Nord's for making Kentucky's best doughnuts. Here's an excerpt, and of course it is fascinating to peruse the state-by-state...

Edibles & Potables: The hallowed Czech and Slovak family tradition of yuletide carp

We'll be gathering around the holiday table for — wait, what was that again? My Christmas season in 1991 was spent in the city of Košice (KOSH-it-sə) Czechoslovakia, population circa 225,000, located near the Ukraine...

Edibles & Potables: For those about to anchovy, we salute you

As the late, great comedian Redd Foxx never said, ya gotta wash your anchovies. Now rinse your anchovies, one by one, under gently running cold water. Your goal here is to wash off any encrusted...

Edibles & Potables: The burgoomeister, his burgoo, and your happiness

Today's Jeopardy! category is "Indigenous Stews." In sourdough baking, a living culture of yeast is refreshed daily, living from loaf to loaf, and sometimes from generation to generation. For Kentucky “burgoomeisters” like Russ (Kennedy), culture...

Easy Entertaining — Farmers’ Market Inspired Elegant but Easy Summer Party

We like what late summer here in the Ohio Valley provides us for parties — long, lazy afternoons and evenings; patios and decks ideal for grilling and eating al fresco; sitting in the dark...

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 J and Bernheim Forest offer a discussion and dinner at Monnik on November...

"The J" is shorthand for Louisville's Jewish Community Center, founded in 1890 and open to the entire Louisville community. On Tuesday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m., The J’s Jewish Outdoor, Food, and Environmental Education...

502 Chili Week is right here and now

502 Chili Week kicked off yesterday and runs through Sunday, October 26. It's the brainchild of City Dining Club Louisville, with sponsorship by AppyHour and Four Roses Bourbon. Chili Week is here! Twenty restaurants will...

Barn8’s fascinating coronavirus coping mechanisms after a delayed opening

The pandemic's "shelter at home" measures have prompted improvised reinvention on the part of numerous existing restaurants located in metropolitan Louisville, but what if an entity is faced with overhauling the business plan before...

Edibles & Potables: I’m a commoner, but make mine royal lamprey pie

On Friday afternoon, combating the hordes in my temporary capacity as festival legal compliance doorman at Pints&union in New Albany, I was explaining my latest idea for new and innovative Harvest Homecoming booth food. It's...