Roger Baylor

1 week ago | foodanddine.com | Roger Baylor

“Best Authentic El Salvadoran and Honduran Cuisine In Louisville.”As a brief aside, my work on a book about beer has sent me into the newspaper archives. It is fascinating to compare and contrast newspaper headlines of the sort designed to be seen from a tactile newsstand, with the purposefully dull teasers greeting us daily in the electronic medium.

1 week ago | foodanddine.com | Roger Baylor

In a former polemical life, and at a different portal than this one, I authored an occasional column called Shane’s Excellent New Words. The basic premise: “Because for some of us, words mean more than money.”Specifically, the concept was aimed squarely at its namesake, a local consigliere who liked to joke in the fashion of Philistines everywhere that Roger used too many big words. Accordingly, I harnessed as many of these difficult multisyllabic words as possible to torment him.

1 week ago | foodanddine.com | Roger Baylor

Turning back the pages to 2020: “A black + woman owned restaurant and lounge. We are where the community comes together over great food, lively music performances and cocktails.”Encore on 4th to be rebranded as The Black Jockey LoungeI’m not sure where those four and a half years went, but direct your attention to the estimable Michael L. Jones, on the beat at Louisville Business First.

1 week ago | foodanddine.com | Roger Baylor

“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.”— Elie WieselThe following essay first appeared at Food & Dining Magazine in 2021. It strikes me as useful and appropriate to pause now and then and reflect on universals, of which this surely is one. Today it has become a Food & Dining Magazine tradition to play against type, leave the food and drink until a little bit later, and consider the institution of Memorial Day in America.

1 week ago | foodanddine.com | Roger Baylor

(Originally posted on May 3, 2020) The medieval period of European history — the Middle Ages, or the Dark Ages — encompassed 1,000 years between the fall of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the Renaissance, approximately 500 to 1500 A.D. The 15th century saw the beginning of the Age of Exploration, as wooden ships fanned out from Europe and reached the most isolated places on the globe, returning with items never before seen, as well as establishing the basis for subsequent (and...