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...

Menu Items: A kebab at the steakhouse door? But it’s from the Kebab Kid!

Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on 24 October 2021. --- In case you missed the news, food prices have gone up. Furious diner left stunned...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 67: Yuletide atrocities, courtesy of the Butt-Head...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 66: The Updated Good Beer Guide to Louisville (1996). We shouldn’t attempt to fashion the elusive silk...

Highlands crowds jubilant as “Brother Joe’s Travelling Salvation Show” heads south

  On Sunday, Pints&union took to the airwaves for a final round of self-congratulation before decamping for Louisville. From beginning to end, the symmetry between Joe's...

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 66: The Updated Good Beer Guide to...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 65: Smoky treats, a 9-hour, 9-brewery, 9-beer Bamberg stroll in 1996. The 1996 F.O.S.S.I.L.S. Membership Directory Issue (#66...