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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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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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The Greater Louisville Food Council’s roadmap for food in neighborhoods

As “Dry January” mercifully concludes, allow me to catch up to some old “foodie” news, as reported by Morgan Watkins at Louisville Public Media. Sorry I missed this, but on the other hand, there’s still ice in the backyard. Community-led plan would remake Louisville’s food economy A new Greater Louisville Food Council will work to […]

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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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