Saturday, April 20, 2024

Edibles & Potables: Stop carping and eat copi

Europhiles like me aren't afraid of carp. In fact, I have fond memories of being fed the pond-raised variety. https://foodanddine.com/edibles-potables-the-hallowed-czech-and-slovak-family-tradition-of-yuletide-carp/ Of course not everyone is a Europhile, or has the patience and fortitude to wash out...

Štruklji, Jota and Pelinkovac — or, what I ate and drank on winter break

Your correspondent and his lovely wife spent time before and after Thanksgiving across the pond: In Zagreb (Croatia), Ljubljana and Lake Bled (Slovenia) and Trieste (Italy). In addition to taking a break from the...

Edibles & Potables: The Chow Mein Sandwich, a Tahitian staple

As Wikipedia helpfully explains, "Tahiti is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia," and for those readers entertaining the notion of visiting Tahiti, any number of travel...

Taste of the Bluegrass Trail: Blue Licks Battlefield Offers History and a Quiet Get...

According to the State Parks website, “On August 19, 1782, nearly seventy Kentuckians died in what some historians have called the “Last Battle of the American Revolution.” While that claim is debatable, the struggle...

Edibles & Potables: We know Cincinnati cuisine, but what about Los Angeles?

Finally Super Bowl Sunday has arrived. Can we use the words "Super Bowl" without incurring a licensing fee? In my household, the championship gala tends to be the only football game we watch all season,...

Edibles & Potables: Cannabis cuisine in Thailand? “THC is the new MSG”

Each Sunday at F&D we consider culinary topics from the dusty "edibles and potables" three-ring binder, as existing outside the boundaries of our metropolitan Louisville coverage area, and you can rest assured that cannabis...

In celebration of National Brisket Day, May 28

 Let it be known that National Brisket Day is Thursday, May 28. https://www.facebook.com/NationalDayCalendar/posts/1176811792363214?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCfPsnNNTb_ReGM3Kl3sVE32XCl5Sw6Gxcj4-5QPZA4hXbx1BEiqUSaZ5IDjesGkTSF1pAKqMPbFN1ajvpkeE7Vrkz0xVomrc36lh3pMRfJOSmCEP6Q58DBNOV0moFUWTmsWoIRpySIAvmaX5296anrR7Knt-P2raHkS6Kj77dl9Zg_oFiDpllo8YaTR2IrRS38b2S5KoryQ3jzfHqBJebLxLkLPOrTHiSORkqe7rzqkmS5lTLjE4n7JaTvScPmjXTSXl9ImGQdNks4QhXOw1nvJC-ZdTpIqNwCgSOa9PCENjcBSjF8QO_tZisgMZTyHTuq0lBhAyKztWtdQwL-RJ_3Fw&__tn__=-R Food & Dining Magazine's digital editor asked if any Louisville area establishments would be honoring National Brisket Day, a profoundly unscientific sampling that...

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...

The McTaste Bud? Use McBroken, find functional McDonald’s ice cream machines

Strictly speaking, our friend Kevin Gibson didn't file this submission under his catch-all "The Taste Bud," leaving it to his readers to decipher any deeper meanings by measuring the distance between tongue and cheek. But...

Derby time? That’s when you plant tomatoes

Of the two long-standing but quite different springtime-in-Louisville traditions, the Derby has been dealt a blow by the coronavirus pandemic, at best, being postponed to the fall. The other tradition, connected calendrically if not...