Easy Entertaining — A Lobster Feast (party planning & recipes)
Ask anyone who has seen Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” knows, cooking whole live lobsters can be intimidating. But we’ve taken the fear out of the process by providing easy steps to properly cook lobsters,...
Q&A: Chef John Plymale of Porcini
Chef John Plymale has been with Porcini since before its 1992 opening. Twenty-plus years later, the restaurant seems like an extension of the chef himself.
A thoughtful and affable guy, Plymale sat down for a...
6 Wines Under $12
It’s not easy choosing wines for holiday events because seemingly every menu is completely different—both at home and away.
As guests at others’ dinner tables, we’re on the hot seat to make a choice that...
Coffee & Spirits
As summer approaches and with it the heat and humidity starts climbing, everyone looks for ways to stay cool and still enjoy the increased entertainment and festivities that warmer temperatures bring.
Cocktails have become more...
Q&A: Chef Matt Weber of Uptown Cafe
Matt Weber will be the first to tell you he’s not part of Louisville’s chef fraternity.
But he is part of a restaurant family of sorts, working since he was 18 in Nancy Shepherd’s Uptown...
Chimichurri and Baked Cheese Grits Recipe
There’s not much good about a bad economy.
Many of us are paying now for pleasures we enjoyed months or even years ago, when we had no idea the brakes were on and we...
Clearwater Seafood
Outpost of the Atlantic Maritimes thrives in Louisville
In a nondescript business park in South Louisville, among loading docks and plain-faced offices, a Nova Scotia company is busy handling a treasure among ocean seafood — live,...
From Good to Great — Anchorage Cafe spreads its creative wings
Something from here, and a bit from there, falls nicely into place at the Anchorage Café — an upscale (or is it traditional?) coffee shop in the heart of “downtown” Anchorage.
A creation of Bruce...
Tough Love For Lager
It was the summer of 1985, and my very first time in Germany, with exact whereabouts in the Alpine foothills of Bavaria lost to posterity, but the specific scene is still quite clear:
A small...
6 White Wines Under $12
Vintage when used to refer to the quality of a particular year is always a source of debate and, ultimately, subjectivity.
Often, too much is said about vintage, especially when it comes to value white...
