Ron Mikulak
(Executive Editor) Ron Mikulak, a founding staff member and former Editor-in-Chief of F&D, has also served as the Assistant Food Editor at the Courier-Journal, where for nine years he managed the test kitchen, cooked hundreds of restaurant dishes requested by C-J readers for the "Cook's Corner" column and developed his own recipes for feature articles. After retiring from the newspaper in 2013 he happily returned to F&D, where he now writes the popular columns “Cooking with Ron” and "Comings and Goings." Ron also pens the pithy restaurant guide blurbs that try to capture the spirit of all the area restaurants.
Thursday, Sept. 18, 5:30 p.m., 8 chefs from Louisville’s top restaurants will collaborate to create a dinner to benefit the Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm, the only local 501(c)(3) organization providing farm-based education for Louisville youth and families.
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Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 6:30 p.m., Varanese, Frankfort Ave., will host a Maker’s Mark themed Bourbon dinner that will feature one of the first public tastings of Maker's Mark Cask Strength Bourbon, bottled at 113.2 proof, straight from the...
Summer squash–zucchini and its relatives in the cucurbita family–strike me as the Rodney Dangerfield of vegetables: they “don’t get no respect.” Backyard garden standards nearly as common as tomatoes, ubiquitous at farmers markets, summer squash are often the last...
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 6:30 p.m., Bristol Bar & Grille Downtown’s chef Bill Lynch will celebrate the hard work and creativity of local farmers with his annual Farmer Appreciation Dinner. The six-course meal will showcase a different local farm in...
It’s always a hoot to see people you know on TV. (Why that is is one of the mysteries of the Modern World, in my estimation.) Anyway, Edward Lee begins his co-host duties this week, along with much-ballyhoed Magnus...
I. Anthony Lamas, chef/owner of Seviche, A Latin Restaurant, Bardstown Rd., is among more than a dozen chefs from around the country invited to the James Beard Foundation’s fifth Chefs Boot Camp for Policy & Change at 21c Museum...
Tony Palombino, the ambitious pizza-meister behind the Boombozz Boombozz Craft Pizza & Taphouse concept, is in an expansion mode again, set to remodel the recently-closed BD’s Mongolian Grill space at 1890 S. Hurstbourne Pkwy into the sixth Louisville area...
The wine dinners at Varanese, 2106 Frankfort Ave., give chef John Varanese and his crew a chance to branch out beyond the regular menu, and show the breadth of their kitchen skills.
The next such dinner is Tuesday, September 9,...
Food TV’s Bobby Flay, who attends the yearling sales at Keeneland, is reported to be scoping out Louisville as a cite for a new restaurant in his little empire (he already has 8 restaurants, 18 burger places and too...
Meta, the relatively new watering hold on the corner of Fifth and Chestnut, is rolling out a relatively new drink concept–the apertif hour. Instead of specials on bloating beer or alcohol-heavy cocktails, Meta wants downtown workers to try a...
