Edibles & Potables

Edibles & Potables: Recreating the gatefold grub from ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres

 (Originally posted on November 15, 2020, and lightly retouched.) Something was missing in 2016 when an Austin, Texas chef recreated the gate-fold meal from ZZ Top’s epochal 1973 album, Tres Hombres. I’ll get to this omission in a moment. Meanwhile, queue up the album on the device of your choice. Back in 1973, it was […]

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Edibles & Potables: Welcome to “post-literate (lipstick effect) little treat culture”

Nowadays on Google, thoughtfully sifting through the options in search of something real amid the sheer weight of insulting dross has been relegated to the vapors, because AI gives you the summary right up front (whether it is accurate, or not). Customarily I push past AI and commence my merry daily regimen of zapping misinformation […]

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Edibles & Potables: A Bay Area wine bar where every glass is priced the same

Today, a Bay Area wine bar where every glass is priced the same, everybody knows your name, and they’re always glad you came. Something like that, at least. Truth be told, wine knowledge isn’t one of my strengths, even if I drink more gratifyingly modified grape juice today than during earlier periods of my life. […]

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Edibles & Potables: South Shore bar pies are “sort of like snowflakes”

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 (or read it at issuu). “As various families perfected their own recipes and as cooks carried their trade secrets from kitchen to kitchen, these simple pies, perfect for slugging back with a […]

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Edibles & Potables: “Malört: The Redemption of a Revered and Reviled Spirit,” a book by Josh Noel

The renowned British author Rudyard Kipling spent time in Chicago in 1889, and did not mince words. “Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.” 133 years later, Food and Wine magazine offered this introduction to a Chicago phenomenon that some might accuse of committing olfactory savagery. “’(Malört) […]

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Edibles & Potables: Tampa and the advent of the Cuban sandwich

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 (read it at issuu). Perhaps not unexpectedly, Tripadvisor lists the best Cuban sandwiches in Louisville as coming from our local Cuban restaurants, most prominently Havana Rumba and Mojito in […]

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Edibles & Potables: Traditional Albanian fare at Tak-Fak in Tirana

You’ll have kindly noted a previous missive addressing Albanian cuisine. We returned late last week from the Balkan Mystery Tour 2025, a marvelous (if a tad chilly) sweep through North Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro. All my Europhile buttons were pushed, repeatedly, and I’ve returned to America rested and ready for…well, writing a book it seems. […]

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Edibles & Potables: 31 years of Albanian cuisine (1994 to 2025)

It will have taken a mere three decades for an encore to “Albania 1994,” with the long-awaited 2025 freshening-up orientation about to get underway in Tirana. Judging from the surface appearances to be gleaned from videos at YouTube, the country has changed considerably during my lengthy time away. Of course Thomas Jefferson surely would counsel […]

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Edibles & Potables: Might there be Cincinnati-style chili in the North Macedonian homeland?

Boy, do I know how to pick balmy midwinter holiday destinations. Not exactly, but what we’ll be lacking in sun-drenched beaches, there’ll be compensation in fascination. At first, it seems almost simple: North Macedonia is a mountainous landlocked country in the Balkan region of Southeast Europe, bordering on Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo and Serbia. These are […]

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Edibles & Potables: On tariffs, food costs and rough sailing ahead

“Many people think of California as the garlic capital of the world when, in fact, most of our garlic comes from China” — Southern Living As readers already know, as of Saturday afternoon tariffs have been placed on all imports to the United States from Mexico, Canada and China. Stated simply at Wikipedia, “a tariff […]

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Edibles & Potables: Pie & mash with jellied eel? Don’t mention the “G” word

With advancing age has come a graceful acceptance of my latent Anglophilia. Much of this serenity owes to the creeping realization that proficiency in any of the continental languages is unlikely; consequently, a thwarted expatriate’s aspirations might as well be confined to areas where the Mother Tongue is spoken. There but for chronic linguistic underachievement, […]

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Edibles & Potables: “Once good taste is learned, there is no return”

 (Originally posted on April 26, 2020) Throughout the world sounds one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me the chance to do my very best. Your faithful correspondent was 27 years old when the film Babette’s Feast was released in 1987, and quite frankly, the nuances were elusive at the time. […]

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