Friday, April 26, 2024

Stews to chase the winter blues

Editor's note: The following column by Ron Mikulak is an encore from May 8, 2017, with the notion of chasing the blues away striking me as particularly relevant today.  When winter winds nip at the...

Barn8’s Alison Settle has New Year’s braised greens and cornbread recipes

Collard greens are a late-season crop and can be harvested well into winter, making them ideal for holiday eating. Appropriately, collards are a New Year's Day tradition in the American South, along with the dish...

Easy Entertaining — Chopped F&D Style (Recipes)

When we throw a Derby party, we think big. We have been collaborating for our Easy Entertaining parties with local chefs for over 10 years, and they have given us many great food ideas....

Congratulations to our columnist Susan Reigler, the new president of Les Dames d’Escoffier’s Kentucky...

"Les Dames d'Escoffier is a leadership culinary organization composed of women who have not only achieved success in their profession, but who contribute significantly to their communities. Since its incorporation 25 years ago, Les...

Silly Axe Café’s allergen- and gluten-free Christmas plan

As preface, the Silly Axe Café (2216 Dundee Road; 502-290-7197), which opened in 2019, describes itself thusly: Dedicated gluten free restaurant featuring a rotating menu, 12 hard to find craft ciders on tap, chef driven,...

Edibles & Potables: A communist-era tramcar snack bar in Gdańsk, and more on Polish...

A bar on rails isn't an entirely novel idea if we're referring to passenger trains, but installing one on a tram — and in communist Poland, no less (from 1956-1960) — constitutes foodie esoterica...

Edibles & Potables: All the food was Greek to me, if not to my...

“Edibles & Potables” is Food & Dining Magazine’s Sunday morning slot for a merry meander down the rabbit holes we encounter. Our goal is to emerge later with a steaming pot of Hasenpfeffer and...

Edibles & Potables: Meat pies, locust beans, posset, and various other enticements

(It's another installment of "The Wonderful World of Random Edibles & Potables") Many years ago when I was traveling in Europe as a budget-conscious backpacker, street food was an option generally preferred to sit-down meals,...

Edibles & Potables: A fried chicken road trip from Serbia to Ohio

Road trip! We're headed to Barberton (near Akron in Ohio, USA) by way of Bela Crkva (Vojvodina, Serbia) for the express purpose of eating fried chicken. But the road is long, and the many winding...

Taste of the Bluegrass Trail: Pine Mountain Took My Breath Away

Naturalist Keith Bowling told me Pine Mountain was the first state park in Kentucky, and I discovered it’s also the furthest stop from Louisville on the Taste of the Bluegrass Culinary Trail. You might...