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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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How Sweet It Is

How Sweet It Is  – a new ice cream shop in Norton Commons When you are in the Norton Commons area, pop into this quaint ice cream shop and see what they have on the menu.  Amanda and Kymber are a recently married couple who decided&#823…

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Kawaii Candy and Karaoke

Unique Treats, Games, and Music family fun at Kawaii Candy and Karaoke We love exploring new places and this candy and karaoke shop in Louisville is small but mighty! Kawaii Candy and Karaoke near La Grange Road and Factory Lane in East Louisville is a…

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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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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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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: 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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We Scream Ice Cream Shop

I scream, you scream, We Scream Ice Cream Shop 2025 has been a doozy but there’s one corner of our city, where things are bright, comfy and delicious… and that’s We Scream ice cream shop.              View this post o…

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VegKentucky, or Kristina Addington’s post-V-Grits project

You’ll recognize the VegKentucky page at Facebook as being artfully repurposed from its previous identity as V-Grits. At the end of December, the Courier Journal’s Amanda Hancock explained why: Owner of recently-closed vegan restaurant launches new nonprofit: What to know. When Kristina Addington announced her popular vegan restaurant would close, she encouraged followers to stay tuned […]

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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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