By Robin Garr
LouisvilleHotBytes.com
Should you love good meals, cooking and eating out as a lot as I do, enable me to ask you to make the meals justice motion a part of your culinary life, too.
Um, what is meals justice? Good query. Let’s begin with a definition. Right here’s an excellent one from Boston College’s Group Service Heart: Proceed studying Love meals and eating? Make meals justice part of your weight-reduction plan.
By Robin Garr
LouisvilleHotBytes.com
Between the finances influence of the pandemic and the time most of us spent hiding in our homes, I haven’t been to many fancy, upscale eating places these days.
Did I say “Currently”? Let’s say I may need had one, possibly two, dear dinners out since March 2020! I think about a number of you might be in an analogous place.
However eventually, it’s time to dine. And so, to have a good time my birthday final month, we dressed up and headed out to Anoosh Bistro. Proceed studying Anoosh Bistro delights as all the time
By Robin Garr
LouisvilleHotBytes.com
I used to be excited to go to one in every of my favourite upscale eateries just lately. I used to be stuffed with completely satisfied smiles till I sat down at our desk and picked up a menu, able to peruse its tasty delights
D’oh!
Due to an overhead gentle that blasted down from behind my head like an airport runway beacon, a lot of our desk was bathed in harsh gentle. However that gentle was positioned above and behind me so every thing in entrance of me was misplaced in darkish shadow. (Picture recorded for posterity above.) Proceed studying Nitpicks and whines: Eating annoyances
By Robin Garr
LouisvilleHotBytes.com
I hope everybody loved Louisville Taco Week final week and ate your fill. There’s loads to love a couple of promotion that brings you tacos for $2.50 a plate at shut to twenty native Mexican-style eateries!
I had huge plans, however peaked too quickly. All of the advance promoting gave me such a robust taco crave that I rushed out to Gustavo’s Mexican Grill and ate my fill per week earlier than the occasion.
It was value it.
Proceed studying We anticipate Taco Week at Gustavo’s
By Robin Garr
LouisvilleHotBytes.com
Early in 2020, Chef Rhona Bowles Kamar was attempting to determine what she wished to do in life. Lately divorced, and out of the job she’d performed as co-owner and chef at Ramsi’s Cafe on the World for 25 years, she was performing some catering and questioning what to do subsequent.
Then got here Covid-19. Eating places had been closed, the catering enterprise cratered, and in a random encounter she met Donny Greene, a neighborhood activist who works in solidarity with Louisville’s houseless neighborhood. Proceed studying Feed Louisville: Cooks combating houselessness
By Robin Garr
LouisvilleHotBytes.com
Bear in mind again earlier than Covid when restaurant buffets had been commonplace? A number of individuals love a buffet meal, and why not? You get plentiful selection, all you’ll be able to eat, and there’s no watch for a server and chef to do their work earlier than you’ll be able to pitch in.
That’s loads to love, however lots of people are cautious of the buffet, and with good cause. Proceed studying Is that this Paradise? Indian buffet is again
By Robin Garr
LouisvilleHotBytes.com
¡Bueños días! Nihao! Konnichiwa! Bonjou! Xin Chào! Annyeonghaseyo! ? káàsán!
And there you’ve gotten it! A easy, multilingual glossary to assist bridge the language hole – let’s not name it a barrier – while you take your seat and greet the server at, respectively, a Latinx, Chinese language, Japanese, Haitian, Chinese language, Korean, or Nigerian restaurant.
There’s nothing fairly like greeting an individual in their very own language to get your encounter off on the suitable foot, even when you don’t have a lot of a typical language. Proceed studying A smile and a phrase can bridge the language hole
By Robin Garr
LouisvilleHotBytes.com
Yearly on St. Patrick’s Day, Louisville’s Irish Rover famously holds a humongous celebration, that includes an oversize tent that covers many of the car parking zone, stay Irish music, and loads of nice Irish meals and gallons of darkish Irish beer.
It’s enjoyable, I’m informed. However I’ve by no means been. Large, noisy crowds guzzling draft beer open air on a brisk March day, even with the consolation of a tent loaded with toasty heaters, is simply not my type.
However catching up with The Rover for lunch the day after St. Patrick’s, having fun with the nice and cozy and comfortable Irish pub consolation of The Rover’s historic Frankfort Avenue constructing on a extra regular day? Priceless. Proceed studying Daily is St. Patrick’s Day at The Irish Rover
By Robin Garr
LouisvilleHotBytes.com
Years in the past, after I left the newly company Courier-Journal, I went to work for a nationwide non-profit primarily based in New York Metropolis. It was an enchanting job that took me throughout the nation, visiting and reporting on inventive grassroots organizations in all 50 states.
It was enjoyable, demanding at instances, and on the finish of nearly day by day full of assembly, chatting with, and interviewing grassroots heroes, I used to be prepared for some quiet time alone … and an excellent dinner with solely my ideas or an excellent e-book for firm. Proceed studying Eating solo: No concern, no disgrace, simply do it
By Robin Garr
LouisvilleHotBytes.com
A vegan walked right into a barbecue joint. What’s the punchline?
Truly, there’s no punchline. I’m not a vegan myself. However I can see the ethos: The industrial agriculture that’s essential to have everybody consuming tasty animals is unhealthy for the atmosphere. It’s unhealthy for our well being. And it’s fairly clearly unhealthy for the animals who should be killed for our gustatory enjoyment.
For causes corresponding to these, rising numbers of individuals have gone vegan, vegetarian, or flexitarian just lately, and that’s why I all the time attempt to embody at the very least one meat-free dish in every evaluate.
This could be a problem, although, once I go to a brand new barbecue joint. Like this week, once I adopted the scrumptious scent of hickory smoke to The Smokery, a brand new eatery in a small constructing on Frankfort Avenue in Clifton. Proceed studying Meat or no meat: The Smokery has you lined
