Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Edibles & Potables: Historian Adrian Miller remembers David McAtee

(Cover photo credit: Walter & Marshae Smith at West of Ninth. Don't miss their column at LEO Weekly: "David McAtee, in his words.") Adrian Miller is the Soul Food Scholar. "I’m a recovering lawyer and politico...

Edibles & Potables: “Endeavour” must end, but Fred Thursday’s sandwiches will live on

 I’m probably in the minority among my peers in the sense that television and cinema register very little impact in my life. It wasn’t always this way, and the obvious purpose of today’s post is...

Hip Hops: Against the Grain’s pro-am Burgoo Bowl, March 19

Herein beer is the weekly topic at hand, and yet the month of March always reminds us that liquid bread is a Lenten loophole, or so the 17th century monks at Cloister Neudeck ob...

Edibles & Potables: A very different kind of feasting gig

"Edibles & Potables" is F&D's weekly Sunday morning glance at the world of food and drink outside our metropolitan Louisville coverage area. We all must work to put food on the table, but what if...

Robin Garr’s Taj Palace review at LEO: Great food and pandemic precautions

Louisville's culinary scene generates ample media coverage, and justifiably so. In my view these newspapers, magazines, web sites and social media feeds each have something to recommend them (although yes, there are exceptions), the...

Edibles & Potables: California’s AB-626 and the legalization of “microenterprise home kitchen operations”

Our home restaurants are representative of the diversity of the community. They address a lot of food desert issues. -- Akshay Prabhu On Sunday, Edibles & Potables is a place to consider items of interest that...

Dare to Care Offering Mobile Food Pantry Assistance at L&N Tomorrow

Dare to Care will host a mobile food pantry tomorrow at the L&N building at the corner of 9th and Broadway from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. The mobile pantry makes food assistance readily...
Easy Entertaining: Downtown Triple Crown

Easy Entertaining: Downtown Triple Crown

On the first Saturday in May, Derby season is celebrated in Kentucky and throughout the region. As we hope for another Triple Crown winner, people begin the festivities weeks before the Derby, party hard...

The Great Chili Cook Off returns to Clifton on Sunday, October 13

The "IHeartRadio Great Chili Cook Off Fueled by Bulleit Bourbon" is scheduled for Sunday afternoon, October 13, in Clifton. It will be the 5th edition of the fest, or the 30th. For the uninitiated this...

Edibles & Potables: We want garum (the ketchup of the ancient Roman gods)

Roman fish sauce, along with oil and wine, formed a triad of commodities which dominated Mediterranean trade. The fish sauce is garum, and the quote comes from a publisher's tout for The Story of Garum:...