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...
Edibles & Potables: Scrooge’s journey of enlightenment begins in 3…2…1…
Scrooge (1970) is the musical version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, starring the late, great Albert Finney. In the truest sense of "literally", studios don't make films like this any longer.
Finney...
Edibles & Potables: Ancient food traditions for the winter solstice (and Saturnalia)
The Winter 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. Click here to check it out.
For the record,...
Edibles & Potables: “England’s First Celebrity Chef” (at Gastro Obscura)
The Winter 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
Gastro Obscura is a division of Atlas Obscura; they're...
Edibles & Potables: Carp(e) diem, or a Christmas in Slovakia, 1991
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...
The Taste Bud: A “canned” story of Ropa Vieja at La Bodeguita de Mima
While not officially classified as one of his "The Taste Bud" columns, our friend and contributor Kevin Gibson's documentation of a recent visit to La Bodeguita de Mima is close enough for Punto guajiro,...
Edibles & Potables: Humble pie for Thanksgiving? Um, no
Editor's note: This post was originally published on November 21, 2021. The cover photo shows the author exiting a pub in Yorkshire in 2001; there was no humble pie, but the cask-conditioned ale inspired...
Edibles & Potables: King of potatoes in Prussia
In contemporary times it's hard to imagine Europeans ever being wary of potatoes, but tubers weren't native to the continent, and because they belong to the family Solanaceae, which includes poisonous plants like nightshade,...
Grub at Gravely: An in-house food menu at Gravely Brewing
F&D's fortnightly "Hip Hops" beer column appeared as scheduled yesterday, but just as it was being finished and readied for publication, Gravely Brewing Company (514 Baxter Ave.) announced its new Grub at Gravely menu.
Let's...
Edibles & Potables: “The Blue Zones American Kitchen”
We dined out twice yesterday, something that seldom occurs in our household unless we're on holiday. For lunch I restricted myself to a turkey sandwich and potato salad, but tipped the sensibility scale by...
