Tuscany has many reasons to boast, Opera was invented in Florence.  The Florentines were the driving force behind the Age of Discovery. It was a map drawn by the Florentine Paulo del Pozzo Toscanelli, which Columbus used on his first voyage. So why is this cornbread raised southern boy boasting about Tuscany?  Because of what Chef Matthew Antonovich and Michael Cooper have brought to the River City.  MOZZ, (pronounced Mott’s)  Mozzarella Bar and Enoteca, 445 East Market in the NULU district of Louisville. 

Culinary tourism is already popular in bigger cities like San Francisco, New York, and Washington D.C. Late last year, Eli Warren and Leslie Burke brought this phenomenon to Louisville when they founded City Taste Tours.

Winston's Restaurant at Sullivan University has a creative way to celebrate the abundance of tomatoes that we get this time of year. The first two weekends (Friday and Saturday) in August, the restaurant will be hosting its annual heirloom tomato dinners.

I took a nutrition class earlier this summer, and surprise, surprise, my diet is low in fruits and vegetables. I'm not going to start picking up pieces of fruit and snacking on them any time, but I did gain a new respect for the fruit smoothie when I visited Turtle Blossom Inspired Foods and Juice Bar this afternoon.