Cuisine
Steak, eggs, astronauts and bodybuilders
Steak and eggs is one of the quintessential American breakfast dishes. It combines the unrivaled satisfaction of eating a juicy steak, a pleasure far...
Tour de brew: Fate Brewing Company
I don’t know when the word “accessible” became a dirty word, but read any movie/music/book review and it always seems like a slight. The snoots...
Hacking the new apple
I grew up right next door to Johnny Appleseed.
Admittedly it was several hundred years apart, but my Massachusetts hometown, Fitchburg, was right next to...
When veggies are the star
In the heart of downtown Louisville, tucked just far enough away from Main Street to create a mood entirely its own, Zucca’s stucco storefront...
Kitchen dancer
When Manal Jarrar talks about her food, her hands shape calligraphy in the air at Arabesque, the cafe she owns with her husband, Saib....
Tour de brew: Nighthawk Brewery
Let’s get right to it: Nighthawk’s Brett Tropihop Tropical Saison is a dream. The nose is fragrant, the body is creamy, the taste is...
Biting cinema
My first conscious memory of food in movies was when the dogs’ lips met in Disney’s animated Lady and the Tramp. Lovers have duplicated...
Tour de brew: West Flanders Brewing Co.
When it comes to beer, nobody does it like Belgium. The small country — just 11 million people covering 12,000 square miles — is...
Giving soup a good rap
At some point in John Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden, Samuel Hamilton comes down with a hallucination-inducing fever that puts him out of commission...
Apple pie, baseball and tacos
I love tacos. I love their simplicity. They are the perfect street food: easy to prepare, filling, messy, delicious.
This is no radical statement. It’s pretty...
Praising cheeses
We get excited during October about ales crafted from Colorado hops, barley, yeast and water. Some baker friends pride themselves on making pies using...
Tour de brew: Great American Beer Festival
When the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) held its inaugural gathering in 1982, 24 brewers came, 47 beers were poured and roughly 800 people...
