Friday, April 19, 2024

Get ready: Tim Laird and Peggy Noe Stevens offer Kentucky Derby party tips

Your daily content provider isn't by nature a Kentucky Derby aficionado in spite of having lived here his entire life. But I appreciate all of you who are, and the value of the Derby's annual...

Edibles & Potables: Cuisine Nissarde — or, what to eat in Nice during Carnaval

I've noted oft times before that a major formative influence during my early 20s was Arthur Frommer's book, Europe on $25 A Day. https://foodanddine.com/edibles-potables-all-the-food-was-greek-to-me-if-not-to-my-travel-guru/ Earlier this year I fetched my 1985 edition of Frommer's seminal guidebook,...

Fried fish for Lent? Kevin Gibson has a list

At his web site, our friend and F&D contributor Kevin Gibson has updated his blog post from 2023, offering a fine overview of fried fish options from local restaurants this year during Lent. 10 Tasty...

Edibles & Potables: Pizza King’s founder has died, but his pies live on

 Short and to the point today at "Edibles & Potables," F&D's slot on Sundays for straying beyond our customary coverage area, although Pizza King certainly is part and parcel of the metro foodscape. A pizza...

Edibles & Potables: In Bangladesh, putting an end to adulterating turmeric

As a reminder, “Edibles & Potables” is F&D’s Sunday slot for food and dining topics that range outside our customary Metro Louisville coverage area, and every other Wednesday (more or less) is given over to “Hip...

Edibles & Potables: Comfort food, like Hungarian goulash soup

The sun was shining this morning, but the thermometer showed 6 degrees F. As the world came hesitantly into focus while I crawled out of bed, my brain posted its usual a.m. orientation notes,...

Edibles & Potables: Shrimp, potatoes and ale, via Belgium’s coastal “Tram 0”

This Belgian coast is hard to love and easy to scorn. It lacks the rugged profundity of Scandinavian fjords or the fractal chaos of Ireland’s Atlantic coast. Its colour palette is grey-beige and its...

The Taste Bud: Kevin tastes Righteous Felon Craft Jerky, and is both pleased and...

It's been a spell since we checked in with our friend and colleague Kevin Gibson. Kevin as yet is selflessly engaged in the pursuit of flavor for the benefit of his readers, as here: The...

Edibles & Potables: “New Year’s food traditions around the world”

On January 1, 2010 my wife and I spent the day in Nuremberg, Germany (our flight home departed on the 2nd). We had spent the entirety of the holiday season in Bamberg, learning the hard...

Merry Christmas, Season’s Greetings, Happy Holidays

 What is your family's tradition for food and drink on Christmas Day? Movies rank highly for many. One of my favorite Christmas movies isn't Die Hard, and also wasn't plucked from the burgeoning Hallmark canon. It's...