Edibles & Potables

Edibles & Potables: A horse is a horse of course of course

If you’ve ever patronized the ubiquitous Belgian institution of the frituur/friterie, the key phrase in this headline is not “horse DNA.” Rather, it’s “Belgian takeaway outlets,” which borrow the word “omnivore” and define it as “whatever fits in a deep fryer, animal or vegetable or mineral.” Horse DNA found in 27% of snacks sold in […]

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Edibles & Potables: How do you make change for an eel (pie)?

First published on June 18, 2023.  We visited A. Cooke’s Pie & Mash shop in Shepherd’s Bush, London, during a brief stay in the city in 2013. It was coincidence that D found a hotel owned by the Young’s pub chain in the very neighborhood where members of the Who grew up, just down […]

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Edibles & Potables: “My Porcelain Past” (when the Highlands White Castle closed in 1988)

 As originally published at F&D on December 19, 2023, this post was one of the most viewed of the entire year.  — Fast food restaurants typically don’t fall into Food & Dining Magazine’s coverage perimeter. However, there are exceptions, and today is one. Upon learning that the White Castle in St. Matthews (4020 Shelbyville […]

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Edibles & Potables: Mediterranean food is fine, so leave “diet” out of it (2026)

Let’s follow up. Your faithful digital editor’s pescetarianism has proven to be sustainable, for the most part. My vague culinary objective for the past five years, and probably long before, has been to steer my food intake toward a Mediterranean-style regimen, with vegetables appearing in greater quantities and meat, while permitted, consumed far more rarely […]

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Edibles & Potables: The myriad joys of Vienna’s Tram “D”

During my stay in Rome in 1985, a veteran Australian wanderer taught me a “wedding crasher” trick he claimed to have learned in Greece when not otherwise preoccupied with devouring skewers of souvlaki, cradling drams of ouzo, and ineffectually pursuing love near the Aegean (or was it beer?) beaches. The Australian said that he had […]

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Edibles & Potables: Food fads are not the same as food trends

Merriam-Webster cuts to the quick. fad (noun): : practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal : craze My deep personal antipathy toward faddishness predates the soullessness-on-demand atrocities of the modern era. However, it is possible that the chip on my shoulder grows heavier when temps are in the nineties, and my patience is tested. […]

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Edibles & Potables: The Portuguese oasis of Madeira (2018 & 2022)

 I head to a traditional eating house in the northern hills (of Funchal) called Casa de Pasto Justiniano. Here, espetada is cooked and served the old-fashioned way. First, the meat is grilled on bay laurel skewers in a hearth in the corner of the room. Then the skewer is brought to the table and hung […]

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Edibles & Potables: Obatzda, a Bavarian riff on beer cheese

It will suffice to say that there is no better way to spend an evening in Prague than to be guided by a native through the city’s warren of ancient alleyways and archaic streets, past numerous watering holes, places where the malodorous Czech beer cheese can, at least in high summer, be smelled a block […]

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Edibles & Potables: Let’s examine Italian s*x worker-style pasta

Headline titillation? That’d be rare. Almost as unlikely as the sight of me downing an ice-cold Miller Blah Life after a Sunday morning bicycle ride. Rather, we’re gathered here today to discuss the ideal edible vehicle for the Mediterranean ingredients I routinely crave: pasta “in the style of a prostitute.” Note that when someone says the […]

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Edibles & Potables: Remembering Mary Jane Rathbun, a.k.a. Brownie Mary (1922 – 1999)

“All human beings are practicing historians. We live our lives; we tell our stories. It is as natural as breathing.” — Gerda Lerner Food as activism? You’d better believe it. One needn’t care a solitary jot about psychoactive drugs like marijuana (it isn’t this beer-centric correspondent’s cup of hallucinogenic-infused tea, you know) to be fascinated […]

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Edibles & Potables: The story of Thomas Downing, the Big Apple’s Black oyster king

(Updated and revised) Amid the continuing late spring monsoon here in Louisville metro, my thoughts turned to oysters. Long Island oyster operations look to bounce back after winter temperatures cause severe damage (Eyewitness News ABC 7) SUFFOLK COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) — “This winter was unprecedented, weather-wise – at least in my lifetime,” said Peeko […]

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But is it a good idea to serve humble pie for Thanksgiving?

From our family to yours: Food & Dining Magazine wishes all of our readers a warm, happy Thanksgiving in 2025. Following is a holiday rerun from the “Edibles & Potables” file circa 2021. Today’s cover photo comes from the BBC’s recipe for humble pie. — Edibles & Potables is here for you, engine idling at the […]

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Edibles & Potables: Eastern European Sauerkraut Soup (with proper beer accompaniment)

 Once upon a time at Facebook, I observed that “beer is good food.” Somewhere in the deep recesses of my brain-wave labyrinth, I knew the Dead Kennedys recorded a song back in 1985 called “Soup Is Good Food,” the title of which will make sense to certain more chronologically advanced readers as a Campbell’s […]

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Edibles & Potables: “Bread and Oil,” and a Majorcan way of eating

It’s time again to spin one of the columnist’s favorite broken records, because for me, Europe is a recurring fascination. New discoveries forever await: history, geography, music, art, food and drink. So it was a few years back when I discovered the relatively recent English translation of The Island of Second Sight, written by the […]

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Edibles & Potables: Among the autumn rituals, behold the persimmon

I grew up in the Southern Indiana countryside. During my 16th birthday year of 1976, the surroundings were hastily being repurposed into tidy residential suburbs. But we still had pastures and woods, raised some Angus, kept a garden, and looked upon a single gnarly persimmon tree just down the hill from our house. When late […]

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