Last October the sensible people at Louisville Business First hired Michael L. Jones to report on economic development and growth. Discerning readers will have noticed an emphasis on restaurants in Jones’ reporting at LBF to date, particularly minority-owned food service businesses. From the perspective of one who scans local media on a daily basis for breaking food and drink news, Jones currently is lapping the field, with stories each week not to be found anywhere else.
None of this comes as any semblance of a surprise to Food & Dining Magazine, as Jones explains in the introduction to his newest contribution to LBF: Small Plates: A new column about Louisville’s food scene.
When I’m out in public, people often asks me why the economic development reporter for Louisville Business First writes so much about restaurants. It is because before I accepted this job last October, I had spent 19 years writing features for Food & Dining Magazine, which is published by my friend John Carlos White.
After spending so long interviewing chefs and attending tastings, it seemed only natural to bring this experience into my new job. However, in recent months, I found that some of the restaurant news that interested me either did not fit LBF’s format or did not warrant a full-fledged story.
So, I got the idea of starting this weekly “Small Plates” column so I could still share the information with my fellow foodies. Hopefully you have as much fun reading the column as I had writing it.
To read some of Jones’ past material at F&D, go here.
I won’t swipe the scoops in our friend’s column, so now’s the time to subscribe to LBF, or at least borrow your neighbor’s copy and read about a new food truck, a pastry shop debut, peach cobbler, the latest in local tiki, and an update on an incoming barbecue joint.
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