Thursday, April 25, 2024

Next Door Market, an indie grocery coming to the Russell neighborhood in 2021

Megan Bell wants to transform a vacant building at 3044 W. Broadway in West Louisville into a grocery store, citing a lack of fresh produce and barriers to healthy options as reasons for her...

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...

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...

Edibles & Potables: Recreating the gate-fold from ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres

Something was missing in 2016 when an Austin, Texas chef recreated the gate-fold meal from ZZ Top's epochal 1973 album, Tres Hombres. I'll get to this omission in a moment. Meanwhile, queue up the album...

Easy Entertaining — Easy Kebab Party

It’s hard to beat a cookout for casual entertainment. The mood is relaxed, never rushed, and the food is informal, which makes for a perfect opportunity to grill kebabs. This ancient means of grilling food...

Edibles & Potables: Tales and cookbooks about Soviet food

Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) was a Russian writer during Soviet times, and to our eyes the very personification of obscurity. He lived and died in an era so very far away from ours that it...

Chef Ouita Michel’s first cookbook is coming soon

Chef Ouita Michel featured prominently in Monday's culinary news cycle, as she has authored her first cookbook with collaborators Sara Gibbs and Genie Graf. Just a Few Miles South: Timeless Recipes from our Favorite Places...

Food Network honors three iconic Louisville sandwiches

Here's a quick "Pick 3" of cucumber juice, bacon and chutney -- or, three iconic Louisville sandwiches incorporating these ingredients, as ranked in the top 99 nationally by Food Network, along with a local...

Edibles & Potables: Seven essential cookbooks, selected by The Economist

In 1988, I was fortunate (?) to land my first and only "real" corporate job abstracting periodicals at the now long-defunct UMI Data-Courier on 5th Street in Louisville, across the alley from Standard Gravure....

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...