Saturday, May 4, 2024

Edibles & Potables: How Greek patriotism revolutionized moussaka

"Edibles & Potables" is F&D's Sunday morning slot for stories that range beyond our metropolitan Louisville coverage area, as with today's look at how the familiar Greek "national" dish called moussaka came to be...

Merry Christmas, Season’s Greetings, Happy Holidays

 What is your family's tradition for food and drink on Christmas Day? Movies rank highly for many. One of my favorite Christmas movies isn't Die Hard, and also wasn't plucked from the burgeoning Hallmark canon. It's...

Louisville Pizza Week 2021 starts TOMORROW (Monday, November 15)

(Edibles & Potables, our usual Sunday column, is taking a break this week.) Louisville Pizza Week is seven days of paying homage to all things ‘za, no matter how you slice it. Each participating restaurant...

Verily, unless Kern’s Kitchen bakes it, it’s not Derby-Pie™

The beer nerds among us understand the implications of a trademark. "Steam" beer is a style of beer associated with San Francisco, but Anchor Brewing Company owns the trademark, and so the rest of us...

Chimichurri and Baked Cheese Grits Recipe

There’s not much good about a bad economy. Many of us are paying now for pleasures we enjoyed months or even years ago, when we had no idea the brakes were on and we...

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: Sunday headline potpourri

Enjoy your eating and drinking, life is about variety and I’m certainly not going to stop drinking wine or cocktails. If you say "I’m into wine and don’t like beer," that’s like saying, "I...

Edibles & Potables: About food deliveries, domains, tipping and reconciliation

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ― Confucius Where I live the options for food delivery used to be simple. Many pizza parlors did it, and maybe a few Chinese restaurants....

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...

REPOST: Louisville Pizza Week is here, and you can get those pies to go

(This is a repost for Tuesday, November 17, which did not publish owing to technical problems. My apologies for that – the editor) The goal of Louisville Pizza Week is to get people to embrace...