Thursday, April 25, 2024

Cincinnati Chef Mitchell Arens Wins BaaBaaq Cook Off

Over 100 people gathered Sunday at 21c for Freedom Run Farm's Baabaaq and Bourbon, where they got to try lamb ribs from Serge Katz at Flavaville Food Truck and lamb barbecue by five different...

Edibles & Potables: We got the beets (again) because it’s time for Ukrainian Borsch...

https://foodanddine.com/edibles-potables-we-got-the-beets-raw-pickled-roasted-or-stewed/ Yes, I know; this beet obsession just might be getting to me. Two weeks ago, during a literature-inspired beet digression, it was my original aim to include borsch (or borscht). The opportunity somehow slipped past,...

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...

MasterChef Finalist Brandi Mudd Joins New MasterChef Summer Camp (Shares Recipe)

Last week, we reported on Louisville native Gerron Hurt being on the current season 9 of MasterChef (where home cooks compete for $250,000 and other prizes), and we shared some advice for him from Brandi Mudd...

The LEE Initiative and Ashbourne Farms combine to launch the Regrow Program

"The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense." -- Tom Clancy The period of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a plethora of pretending, but I'm not going to pretend there was any...

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...

Merry Christmas, Season’s Greetings, Happy Holidays

 What is your family's tradition for food and drink on Christmas Day? One of my favorite Christmas movies isn't Die Hard. It's the somber and elegiac The Dead (1987), adapted from the novella by James Joyce....

Edibles & Potables: In defense of mass-market American tacos

Five years ago in the New York Times Magazine, Sam Sifton made the case for hard-shell, middle school tacos. A year or so ago, in a fit of hunger after a long day of working...

Edibles & Potables: The skyrocketing popularity of shokupan (Japanese milk bread)

It's so popular that scalpers want a piece of the action. Japanese Milk Bread, by Jennifer Perillo (The Spruce Eats) Homemade bread is wonderful, but doesn't always maintain that soft, fresh-from-the-oven taste and texture the next...

The Taste Bud: “Food Myths People Actually Believe are True”

More and more evidence is surfacing, however, that milk consumption may not only be unhelpful, it might also be detrimental. This is in spite of the fact that the United States Department of Agriculture...