The Taste Bud: This St. Patrick’s Day, Please Don’t Drink Green Beer
I know it will be tempting, but this St. Patrick’s Day, please do not drink green beer. Please.
The Taste Bud: Peppers-R-Paradise Bourbon Barrel Aged Extreme Hot Sauce Brings the Flavor with Fire
While at Tailspin Ale Fest recently, I wandered from tent to tent and noticed a lone man in a booth selling hot sauce. Because I’m me, I made a beeline.
The Taste Bud: The Taco Bell Chili Cheese Burrito Lives Among Us
I had finally given up on getting my hands around another Taco Bell Chili Cheese Burrito. Turns out, I should have kept searching.
The Taste Bud: A Gooey Trip Back in Time to Angilo’s Pizza
One restaurant I remember vividly from my early youth was Angilo’s Pizza, a small eatery not far from Churchill Downs that originally opened in 1962 and has remained a neighborhood staple.
The Paqui One-Chip Challenge With Writer/Author Kevin Gibson
I recently took to YouTube to take the Paqui One Chip Challenge. In a word, it was HOT.
The Taste Bud: Galaxie Margs and Watakas? Always, But Don’t Forget the Hand-Cut French Fries
When you were a kid, did you ever eat just a plate of French fries as a meal? Yeah, well, I still do it sometimes. And the fries at Galaxie are some of the best I’ve found in Louisville.
The Taste Bud: Good Seafood from the Freezer? Well Played, SeaPak
I never liked frozen fish sticks, so I mostly have avoided frozen seafood dinners. But SeaPak’s shrimp scampi and shrimp spring rolls made me rethink seafood from the freezer section.
The Taste Bud: The Joy of Revisiting Spring Street Bar Wings
When Spring Street Bar and Grill, the staple in Irish Hill, closed down during 2020, it dawned on me that I would never be able to enjoy their signature wings again. I may have been premature, thanks to the folks behind High Horse Bar.
The Taste Bud: Wild Planet Cleans Up Traditional Canned Tuna
Wild Planet Foods takes canned tuna in new places — it’s caught and processed in sustainable, clean ways and it’s better for you. This ain’t your father’s canned tuna, in other words.
The Taste Bud: Cheap Jamaican Meat Patties for Everybody
I may have located the ultimate Taste Bud item: the Jamaican meat patty from Golden Krust.