Edibles & Potables: The burgoomeister, his burgoo, and your happiness
Today's Jeopardy! category is "Indigenous Stews."
In sourdough baking, a living culture of yeast is refreshed daily, living from loaf to loaf, and sometimes from generation to generation. For Kentucky “burgoomeisters” like Russ (Kennedy), culture...
(Photos, Recipes) Chef Stooksbury and Ballotin Offer “Home Party” Delight at MESA
MESA, A Collaborative Kitchen, 216 Pearl St in New Albany, is set up like a beautiful home kitchen, and taking a seat at their counter to watch the featured chef of the evening is...
Easy Entertaining — Farmers’ Market Inspired Elegant but Easy Summer Party
We like what late summer here in the Ohio Valley provides us for parties — long, lazy afternoons and evenings; patios and decks ideal for grilling and eating al fresco; sitting in the dark...
Afternoon Archive: Un-fussy country ham? We have suggestions
A whole country ham is a challenge, but here are some ways to appreciate Kentucky ham’s rich flavors without investing a lot of time and money. Ron Mikulak's 2016 ham exploration was published prior...
Afternoon Archive: A hankering for biscotti with after-dinner espresso
Biscotti strike me as the perfect adult cookie. The Italian provenance gives them a slightly cosmopolitan aura, but it is the crunchy, sandy texture, its not-too-sweet flavor, its unusual shape, which makes it perfect...
Garden of Gourds
Summer squash–zucchini and its relatives in the cucurbita family–strike me as the Rodney Dangerfield of vegetables: they “don’t get no respect.” Backyard garden standards nearly as common as tomatoes, ubiquitous at farmers markets, summer...
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...
Easy Entertaining: Celebrate With Chocolate
Who doesn’t like chocolate? Or holidays? Well we have a reason to celebrate then because there are no less than 42 official Chocolate Holidays during the year. And the winter season has a few...
Cooking with Ron—Stews to Chase the Winter Blues
When winter winds nip at the nose, when the clouds spit snow and puddles freeze – that is the time for comforting meals of stew in steaming bowls accompanied by chunks of crusty bread.
Stews...
Edibles & Potables: Some news, some notes, and an on-line database of 5,000 historical...
A few items of interest for random Sunday reading ...
From Cuisine Noir, there's an initiative to help close the racial equity gap in craft beer.
The Crowns & Hops “8 Trill Pils Fund,” is launching...
