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The Cocktail Contessa: “Gifting drinks is my love language”

In our current Fall 2025 print edition, Heather “The Cocktail Contessa” Wibbels explains how to batch and gift cocktails. THE COCKTAIL CONTESSA | Batched, Bottled, and Bowed Gifts with Seasonal Style: Whether it’s bourbon cream, a freezer martini, or a mason jar of infused syrup, gifting drinks is the columnist’s love language. It’s personal, practical, […]

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Letters from Lelia’s Kitchen: “The Art of Mindful Cooking”

In our current Fall 2025 print edition, Lelia Gentle considers the benefits of mindful cooking, which can be considered a form of meditation. As an example there is mise en place, a French culinary term that means “putting everything in place,” and taking the time to prepare and organize what will be needed before breaking the […]

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The Bar Belle: “Long Live Dive Bars and Ice-Cold Beer”

In our current Fall 2025 print edition, Sara “The Bar Belle” Havens gets back to basics. THE BAR BELLE | Long Live Dive Bars and Ice-Cold Beer: Fearing for the lives of Louisville’s cherished dive bars, The Bar Belle has compiled a short list of the dives that remain, along with the places where we […]

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“Off the Eaten Path” at The Service Station Restaurant in Old Louisville

In our current Fall 2025 print edition, Marty Rosen profiles Kendell Sheppard’s The Service Station Restaurant (208 E. Burnett Ave. in Old Louisville), with delicious photography by Dan Dry. OFF THE EATEN PATH │ Fine Dining Roots, Comfort Food Soul: The Service Station offers an astonighing menu coming from a compact corner kitchen helmed by […]

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2-for1 F&D bourbon columns: home tasting how-to, and an autumnal potpourri

In our current Fall 2025 print edition, you’ll find a two-for-one bourbon flight. First up, whiskey tasting tips from Susan Reigler, with photos by Dan Dry. BOURBON: How To Conduct Your Own In-Home Bourbon Tasting: Tasting whiskey is not like tasting wine. Whiskey, including bourbon, is far higher in alcohol by volume than wine and […]

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Hot off the presses: The Fall 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine has hit the streets

The Fall 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. Subscribe to our award-winning print publication and have it delivered to your door each issue. FEATURES PROFILE | The Saing Family’s Pad Thai Story: The Saing family founded the […]

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Letters from Lelia’s Kitchen: Greens on the grill

In F & D’s current print edition, our kitchen guide Lelia Gentle discusses the art of grilling, noting that grilled greens and vegetables have become favorites of hers — and it’s peak season at the farmers market. The old admonition applies: just don’t overcook. LETTERS FROM LELIA’S KITCHEN | Greens on the grill Yes, yes, […]

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The Cocktail Contessa: Cocktails from the garden, sipping on summer’s bounty

In our current print edition, Heather “The Cocktail Contessa” Wibbels takes a walk through the garden in search of inspired summer sips, including recipes for Berry Mint Tea, Lavender Lemon Smash, Peach Basil Gin Sour, Garden Sparkle and School’s Out Margarita. COCKTAIL CONTESSA | Sipping on summer’s bounty  Fresh herbs and flowers can infuse your […]

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The Bar Belle: Globetrotting and bar hopping in 2025

In our current print edition, Sara “The Bar Belle” Havens recounts her travels so far in 2025, which have included London, Scotland, Mexico and Baltimore, MD, home of The Horse You Came In On Saloon in Fell’s Point, reputedly Edgar Allan Poe’s last stop before oblivion (cover photo). BAR BELLE | Globetrotting and bar hopping […]

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Hot off the presses: The Summer 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine has hit the streets

The Summer 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. Subscribe to our award-winning print publication and have it delivered to your door each issue. FEATURES PROFILE | MeeshMeesh: Well before a prestigious James Beard Award nomination raised Chef […]

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Sara’s barrel pick experience at Angel’s Envy (in our Spring 2025 print edition)

As we await the arrival of the Summer 2025 edition of Food & Dining Magazine, which is coming in early June (the fevered hum of production is audible, briefly interrupted by the inevitable Kentucky Derby hangover), a fundamental truth about life in Kentucky taps us gently on our shoulders. It’s a bourbon reminder, of course, […]

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Letters from Lelia’s Kitchen: “Cooking with Eggs” (and shakshuka lessons)

In our current print edition, Lelia Gentle recounts a shakshuka lesson offered by a helpful North African cab driver in New York City: “You must roast the peppers and tomatoes yourself. Don’t used the canned ones!” She offers two additional egg recipes: okonomiyaki (a Japanese cabbage pancake, similar to a frittata) and shirred eggs, a […]

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The Bar Belle on Louisville nightlife: Same as it ever was? Not really

In our current print edition, Sara “The Bar Belle” Havens offers her Louisville nightlife highlights of yesteryear. Whatever happened to cheap beer, Connections and local pub crawls? Learn about the way things used to be, and not so long ago. BAR BELLE | Same as it ever was? Not really Sometimes people will ask me […]

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Hot off the presses: The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine has hit the streets

The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. Subscribe to our award-winning print publication and have it delivered to your door each issue. FEATURES PROFILE | Perso: “Cook what you feel,” says multi-faceted Chef Emil David of […]

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The Bar Belle: “3 broads visit 3 breweries”

Our cover photo comes to us from AB InBev.  A few years ago, Sara “The Bar Belle” Havens was joined by two of her friends on a year-long “brewcation” quest that brought them to the three biggest breweries in America: Miller, Budweiser and Coors. BAR BELLE | 3 broads visit 3 breweries: The Bar Belle […]

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