Tips on choosing your personal coffee
Since my passion for coffee is solidly evident, friends and acquaintances approach me asking me for recommendations, or a personal favorite of my own. The task can be a challenge. Coffee is produced in...
$10 Challenge: The Fish House & Cafe Beignet
I had to try The Fish House when the restaurant received my mother’s seal of approval.
Mommy has always been a notoriously finicky eater. And a few years ago, a doctor diagnosed her with a...
Humor — Honey Do
When my wife first got invited up to Providence by the National Honey Board to attend a Honey Summit as an all-expense paid guest chef, I thought it was some kind of trick. Nobody...
Q&A: Coby Ming of Harvest
As a female in a male-dominated field, Chef Coby Ming is used to being underestimated.
In fact, she welcomes it. In the variety of places she worked before becoming head chef at Harvest, she says,...
Cooking with Ron — Lenten Fish Ideas (recipes)
Our Ron Mikulak considers two questions. First, how did Lenten Friday's piscatorial calendrical tradition begin? And second, besides, frying it in oil, what are some other ways to cook fish?
I remember from my childhood...
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...
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$10 Challenge — Sitar Indian Restaurant
Not your everyday buffet. Sitar delivers flavor and variety, all piping hot.
My undergraduate years sowed the seeds of my frugality. Scholarships took care of my major college expenses, but the paycheck I received from the...
Cooking with Ron — Fall Foods From the Tree (recipes)
Not so very long ago, fruits and vegetables appeared in markets seasonally - when the food was ripe and tastiest. Strawberries for a few weeks in spring. Sweet peaches and juicy tomatoes during the...
Hip Hops: Louisville Beer Then and Now
“Anyone who has groped among the dark beer dungeons which lie for a number of deep streets under Phoenix Hill, would scarcely imagine while in those dark, chilly caves, that far above him the...
