Diary: “Beer: Why not for breakfast?” (2009 – 2010)

"Mug Shots" From 2009 - 2011, I wrote a column for Louisville Eccentric Observer (aka LEO Weekly) called "Mug Shots." If I recall, it was Cary...

Milk is liquid snot

(This article originally appeared at the former NA Confidential blog on January 16, 2017. The clauses have been rearranged.) I believe that drinking milk is...

Five Way Vegetarian Cincinnati Chili, because that’s the way I Iike it

This recipe is from my mother’s file, via her next-door-neighbors (the Mulloys), and revised extensively. Kidney beans take the place of the ground beef,...

“Death to Chain Restaurants,” or how one evening at Taco Bell (circa 2005) radicalized...

I've meant to tell this story many times over the years. Earlier this week the topic arose at Facebook in the form of a...

Menu Items: Babette’s Feast, the film (1987): “Once good taste is learned, there is...

 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...

Shane’s Excellent New Words: One bluegill, one crappie, one carp

Yesterday's "Edibles & Potables" column at Food & Dining Magazine celebrated the hallowed Czech and Slovak family tradition of yuletide carp. As a postscript,...

Menu Items: You may wish to rethink humble pie for Thanksgiving or Christmas

Originally published at the Food & Dining Magazine web site on 21 November 2021. --- Edibles & Potables is here for you, engine idling at the...

Menu Items: Štruklji, Jota and Pelinkovac — or, what I ate and drank on...

Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on 21 December 2019. --- Your correspondent and his lovely wife spent time before and after Thanksgiving across the...

Think beer globally, drink beer locally, pair beer with food thoughtfully

Every major industrialized nation has A BEER (you can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear...

Menu Items: All the food was Greek to me, and gratefully so

Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on 7 November 2021. --- “Edibles & Potables” is Food & Dining Magazine’s Sunday morning slot for a merry...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 6: Pecetto idyll, with a Parisian chaser

 (I'm including examples of songs I heard while in Europe in 1985. I'd like to say that I recall music of local origin, but...

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 5: A critical Mass in Rome — and the famous...

Musical introduction, or "the songs I heard playing in 1985 as I traveled around Europe." I had no Walkman or radio of my own,...

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 4: Greece, Turkey, a famous Pythion interlude, and the Levant...

Previously: Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 3: Growing up in Greece with Henry Miller. It makes little sense, but musically, Bangkok was getting far more airplay...