Roger Baylor

Hip Hops: As craft beer convulses, Gen Z embraces cask ale in Great Britain

Today’s atypically brief stream of beery consciousness is brought to you by Spain, where we just enjoyed a week relaxing in Valencia and Palma de Mallorca. Our journey abroad coincided with the post-Great American Beer Festival news cycle, centering on craft beer’s decline, death and zombie afterlife, or whatever the adjustment is being called this […]

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Kentucky Hop Water has entered the THC beverage market

My friend Michael Moeller, previously a founder of Kentucky Ale Trail, first launched a non-alcoholic, craft beer-influenced “straight” beverage. Now things have gotten a tad hempy. Since I know Michael writes his own excellent information releases (kudos; he’s a man after my own heart; you have NO IDEA how many unreadable releases come my way), […]

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Boneless in St. Matthews: Dave’s Hot Chicken lands in Louisville

The first area location of the Dave’s Hot Chicken chain landed at 4125 Town Center Blvd. in Jeffersonville in November 2024. Hot chicken might well be a Nashville TN tradition, but this franchise concept derives from a street stand operated by four buddies in Hollywood, California. The menu is built around aggregations of chicken tenders […]

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Edibles & Potables: “Bread and Oil,” and a Majorcan way of eating

It’s time again to spin one of the columnist’s favorite broken records, because for me, Europe is a recurring fascination. New discoveries forever await: history, geography, music, art, food and drink. So it was a few years back when I discovered the relatively recent English translation of The Island of Second Sight, written by the […]

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Premium ice maker Kentucky Straight Ice celebrates its 10-year anniversary

Kentucky Straight Ice (KSI) is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in 2025. KSI makes all the cocktail ice for distillers like Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark, Woodford Reserve, as well as various other regional distilleries, restaurants, bars, and hotels. An information release offers the skinny on where KSI has been, and where it is going. — Bourbon ice […]

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“World-Class Paella: Made with a Surgeon’s Touch”

In our current print edition, Michael L. Jones drops in for paella night at Caffe Classico, with photos by Dan Dry. WORLD-CLASS PAELLA | Made with a Surgeon’s Touch: On monthly paella nights at the decidedly Old World bastion Caffe Classico in Clifton, you’ll find Gustavo Pérez-Abadía, a skilled orthopedic surgeon and educator, tending to […]

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Chef in a Box (Oct. 15, 16): Home Cuisine, featuring chef Chip McPherson

Please read carefully; this month CIAB pickup directions differ from the norm. The folks pictured here are (left to right): chef Tina Hardison; Home Cuisine owner Sandy Pike; and chef Chip McPherson. Home Cuisine is next for APRON Inc.’s Chef in a Box promotion, but first the bigger picture.  Food & Dining Magazine continues to […]

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Hip Hops: “We may take a holiday in Spain,” so what about the cerveza?

The late, great British beer writer Martyn Cornell visited the Spanish island of Majorca (Mallorca) in 2015, subsequently recording the experience at his Zythophile (Zee-tho-fyle) web site: The porter in Majorca tastes like what it oughter (apparently the title is a pun on a Heineken advertisement from the 1980s). If you want a single statistic […]

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The 51st “Taste of Louisville” is Wed., Oct. 15 at Mellwood Art Center

The Kentucky Restaurant Association’s annual Taste of Louisville dates to 1974, making it by far the most enduring food tasting event in the city’s modern history. A moveable feast over the years, the 51st edition of Taste of Louisville in 2025 remains ensconced at the Mellwood Art Center (1860 Mellwood Avenue), to be held on […]

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The Brown Hotel releases this holiday season’s dates for Kentucky Afternoon Tea

Following is an information release from downtown Louisville’s historic The Brown Hotel, located at Fourth and Broadway.  — The Brown Hotel’s Kentucky Tea Returns for the Holidays Century-old hotel’s holiday high tea is back in business The Brown Hotel has announced that its beloved ‘Kentucky Afternoon Tea’ – a unique rendition of a classic European […]

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Edibles & Potables: Among the autumn rituals, behold the persimmon

I grew up in the Southern Indiana countryside. During my 16th birthday year of 1976, the surroundings were hastily being repurposed into tidy residential suburbs. But we still had pastures and woods, raised some Angus, kept a garden, and looked upon a single gnarly persimmon tree just down the hill from our house. When late […]

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“Louisville Pizza King” opens in Old Louisville, differing from that OTHER Pizza King

Reporting at Louisville Business First, Michael L. Jones finds a third “Louisville Pizza King” debuting at 416 W. Oak St. in Old Louisville (the two pre-existing locations are 3505 Taylor Blvd. and 300 W. Woodlawn Ave.) Louisville Pizza King is known for its wide-ranging menu, which includes pizzas, sandwiches, salads, quesadillas and some Greek dishes. […]

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Nina Greipel’s “Gasthaus Coookbook and Memories” has arrived

We return to those traumatic times not so long ago, in 2022, when so many of us suddenly were faced with empty culinary lives without Schnitzel Holsteiner Art (and Aventinus Weizen Doppelbock). Auf Wiedersehen, Gasthaus As an aside, in case you’re wondering which three departed local eating and drinking establishments I miss the most, here […]

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BoomBozz Pizza • Watch Bar’s NFL tailgate & watch party in Jeffersonville (Sun., Oct. 5)

Sorry, there are too many words for the header, so here’s the whole banner: BoomBozz Pizza • Watch Bar Turns Its Parking Lot Into a Game Day Fan Zone for All-Day NFL Tailgate + Watch Party An information release provides the details of this event, which takes place at BoomBozz Pizza • Watch Bar, 1450 […]

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Hip Hops: I won’t apologize for %!@$&* hating Stella Artois

Cover canine photo credit: Care. Diligent readers may recall that I participate in a weekly podcast called The Pubcast, which originates at Donum Dei Brewery in New Albany. There isn’t an overarching theme to our discussions, although guests often are drawn from the food and drink trade, and beer talk regularly lands on the docket. […]

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