The Golden Lamb: Turning Abraham Lincoln’s holiday into a 150 years old tradition
The Golden Lamb had been open for three decades or so when Lincoln visited Lebanon, Ohio. Though no records exist that he dined or stayed at what was then a […]
Missing Howard: Johnson That Is
I worked at HoJo’s when I was a teen and as a young girl, when we traveled to New York, Connecticut and along the eastern seaboard, we typically stayed at their lodges. HoJo is Me!
TripleXXX: A Lafayette Favorite For Nine Decades
Opening in 1929, Triple XXX was the state's first as well as its oldest drive-in.
WHAT ARE THE BEST WINES IN INDIANA?
The Judges have Spoken Judging for the 17th Annual Indiana Wine Fair took place on May 4 and 5, 2019, in the Old Barn at Story Indiana. Eight judges participated: […]
Lost Restaurant Recipes Found: Finally, the famous Mead Chicken Recipe!!
In the years I’ve been writing about food for the Herald Palladium, the largest newspaper in Southwest Michigan, I’ve received many requests from readers for recipes but undoubtedly the […]
A Golden Lamb Thanksgiving: A Treat Since 1870
I’ve spent a lot of time lately traversing Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio following, so to speak, in Abraham Lincoln’s footsteps . And while it’s not recorded that Lincoln […]
Queretaro: Colonial Charm in the Highlands of Mexico
My first morning in Queretaro, about a 90 minute drive north of Mexico City, I walked along the cobblestone streets in the city’s historic center to the fairy tale castle-like […]
A Visit to Julius Renner Weinhaus & Weinkellerei in Historic Oberkirch
Following the Muhlbach Stream as it gently flows through downtown Oberkirch, a marvelous collection of timber-framed, multi-stories houses, cobblestone streets, brightly painted shutters and window boxes overflowing with cascading blooms, […]
South Bend’s Magnificent Tippecanoe Place
Built in 1889, Tippecanoe Place, a fine dining restaurant in South Bend is an elaborately gabled and turreted 24,000-square-foot Richardsonian Romanesque-style house which belonged to Clem Studebaker, one of the […]
King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World
For her book King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World (Alfred A. Knopf 2017; $35), Joan Nathan, the multiple James Beard award winner, […]
Magnolia Springs, Alabama
On a languid afternoon after too much time in the sun in Gulf Shores, Alabama, I decided to follow the coastline in Magnolia Springs, a small town along the headwaters […]
The Story of the Good Earth: Hoosier Restaurant Grows in Style
Story Inn’s Chef Eric Swanson has no need to visit a farmer’s market. Every afternoon the Chef picks it himself. “We’re not ordering much produce these days” he says. […]
Story, Indiana Picks New “Village Idiot”
April 1, 2018 Hoosier Craft Beer and Wine Salesman Brings it Home Tiny Town Issues its Highest Honor to Brad Brookbank ****************************** Story, Indiana. Since its founding in 1851, Story […]
Bourbon & Southern Cooking at the Historic Beaumont Inn
When I arrive in the new bourbon tasting room at the historic Beaumont Inn, there are already set-ups of four bottles of bourbon with empty glasses in front of each. […]
Fare Fit for a Founding Father
When George Washington ate a farewell dinner with his officers after the end of the Revolutionary War back when New York City was the temporary capital of the newly formed […]
