Friday, May 3, 2024

Why Bison?

From ancient forests and savannahs of Kentucky comes a native food that helps define our local cuisine as naturally delicious. There was a blip on the culinary radar a decade or so ago, when chefs...

Easy Entertaining: Turkey three ways for the holidays

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/f_d_fall_2023/36 Fall is here, the holidays are fast approaching, and F&D's ambassadors of entertaining have opened their kitchen for three local chefs (Brandi Alexander, John Varanese and Chris Williams) to demonstrate turkey recipes capable of...

London vs Paris – The Final Smackdown

We all know the jokes about English cuisine whereas France is recognized as a gastronomic superpower. Yet, England has worked diligently in recent years to overturn its reputation as the Land of Spotted Dick...

Ideas for pizza on the grill — just add social distancing

Tim and Lori Laird are Food & Dining Magazine’s officially designated Entertaining Editors-at-Large, co-writers of our “Easy Entertaining” column, and in essence professional crowd-pleasers. As we're all aware, at the present time the objective is...

Easy Entertaining — Cajun Crawfish Boil…Made Easy

Up here, north of Bayou Country, Cajun food is party food, the mark of a celebration that includes spicy sausage and seafood, rice and okra, catfish, gumbo, maque choux... And the epitome of Cajun party...

Afternoon Archive: Ron’s do-it-yourself weekend brunch

It's an "Afternoon Archive" when we thumb through past print editions of Food & Dining Magazine and take another look. In this pandemic-mandated period of social distancing, one can't help noticing how socially communal...

Restaurant Humor — Meet The Gang

Meet The Gang  By Jay Forman   Winter 2018 Print Issue  If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes an asylum to run a restaurant. The ecosystem of even a small independent usually involves...

Party Wines

The date is set, the guest list is done, food seemed to be the most difficult but you have it figured out. And then you think, what about the wine? You need a case or...

Humor: Disruptive restaurant tech that I’d like to see

Ironically, the biggest disrupter of all for the food service industry has proven to be viral (quite literally) and not technological -- something our columnist could not have foreseen only a year ago when...

Simple guidelines for better coffee at home

We’ve all had that magical moment when at a coffeehouse, a neighborhood diner or an upscale dinnerhouse, you tipped up your coffee mug or cup and were introduced to that very special memory of...