Saturday, April 27, 2024

Afternoon Archive: In search of Jamaican Jerk Chicken

The 2020 the Four Roses Kentucky Reggae Festival (presented by Bath Fitter) has been postponed to a later date owing to COVID-19. However, the coronavirus simply cannot prevent the Jamaican Jerk Marinade (with chicken)...

Afternoon Archive: As American as French apple tarts

As Ron Mikulak explains, the two-crust apple pie familiar to generations of Americans can trace its origins to the European single-crust fruit tart.  --- An earworm from the past has haunted me lately, a 50-year old...

Let’s make Ca phe sua nong (Vietnamese coffee)

When I had taken my first sip, I knew that I had crossed the next threshold of caffeine Nirvana. The fusion of sweetness, creaminess and caffeine swirled in my mouth, awakening my senses to this...

Letter from the Editor: Food, foodways and their social markers

In 1749 the pseudonymous French cookbook author known as Menon published a work called La Science Du Maître D'Hôtel Cuisinier (roughly, The Skills of the Steward Chef). In it, Menon documents a form of...

Restaurant Comings & Goings — Spring 2023

The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. For the online links to articles, go here: https://foodanddine.com/hot-off-the-presses-the-spring-2023-issue-of-food-dining-magazine-has-hit-the-streets/ And...

Easy Entertaining— Cooking with Bourbon

With the growing emphasis on using local ingredients whenever possible in cooking, it is only natural that restaurant chefs would experiment with uses for Bourbon, a local product with a long and storied history...

Shuckman’s Fish Company

With a ready laugh and sparkle in his eyes, Lewis Shuckman projects an easy-going joie de vivre, perhaps evidence of his satisfaction heading the third generation of a family business founded in 1919. At Shuckman’s Fish Co. &...

Old World Character with a New Age Spirit – Dumante Verdenoce

Have you tried Dumante, that ancient nutty liqueur sipped for ages in pistachio groves of Sicily? Don’t feel bad if you haven’t, because Dumante has only been out since Fall of 2007, although its rich,...

Cooking with Ron: Home cooking — Then and Now

Recently, a neighbor stopped by to give me a little gift, just something she had found while going through her files that she was sure I would be interested in. She presented me with...

Afternoon Archive: Entertain your family with a steakhouse night at home

Food & Dining Magazine’s Tim and Lori Laird are our officially accredited Ambassadors of Entertainment, whose “Easy Entertaining” column has been a staple for many the year. Recently we've been running their past columns...