“I like mine with lettuce and tomato, Heinz 57 and french-fried potatoes.  Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer,  Well good god almighty which way do I steer for my…Cheeseburger in paradise”  

This article appears in the February 2012 issue of Louisville Magazine. To subscribe, please visit Loumag.com.

Home cooks tend to fall into one of two categories: 1) serious epicures who do not need help from the likes of me; or 2) those who watch hours and hours of Food TV, then pick up the phone to order a pizza.

In a random survey I conducted over the holidays of people from ages 18 to 88, I came across a lot more of the latter than of the former.

This article appears in the August 2011 issue of LouisvilleMagazine. To subscribe, please visit loumag.com.

People tend to have one of two reactions at the mention of the word kohlrabi: 

• “You mean those Sputnik-

creaturey-looking things in the Asian produce section of the grocery?”

• “Ew — that turnipy stuff my grandma used to mash up?”