The Sixth Annual Locust Grove Used Book Sale This Weekend

I love books, you love books. Locust Grove wants to help us find great used books for great prices this weekend at their annual Used Book Sale.
This is the Big Sale! More than 15,000 used, antiquarian, and new books in all categories will be offered for sale. Categories include history, biography, mysteries, reference, science [...]

Yoga Eats To-Go Box (Vegetarian Meal Service)

The best realtor in Louisville aka my realtor Jacqueline Klein sent me an email the other day about Yoga Eats, a new prepared meals service in Louisville from the folks at Yoga East. It’s kind of like a CSA except for vegetarian meals instead of produce.
Treat yourself and your family to fresh and healthy [...]

Consuming Louisville Goes to the East End

I’m so behind on writing this wrap up of my East End Neighborhood tour. Buying a house, moving, serious renovation, a couple big speaking gigs, a big work project and Snowpocalypse version 1, 2 & 3 will apparently wreak havoc on my schedule. Things are calming down a bit now though so I’m finally getting [...]

Block Printing Class at Locust Grove Saturday March 6, 2010

While I don’t have much interest in wallpaper I have a great (and growing) interest in various printing techniques. So I think this day long workshop sounds pretty cool.
Virginia Tucker, owner of the Virginia Floor Cloth Company in Louisville will show the class how to create block prints on paper, Saturday, March 6th from 10:00 [...]

Rudy Lane Fresh Market Now Open

I got a chance to have a sneak preview of the new Fresh Market on Rudy Lane yesterday. It was very cool to be in the store when everything was absolutely pristine, no one had bought anything or messed up any displays. It was a marvelous show of foodstuff beauty.
I had been to a [...]

The Comfy Cow

There’s a new ice cream place in town. Called The Comfy Cow, it’s located in Westport Village. All the ice cream flavors and specialty sundaes on their menu sound delicious of course but it’s this blurb from the about section of their website that really has me excited:
We at The Comfy Cow believe we have [...]

Support Jefferson Memorial Forest By Shopping!

I’ve never been to Amazing Green Planet have you? I’m pretty sure I’d like the merchandise they sell and they’re obviously nice people since they’re helping Jefferson Memorial Forest out, so I’ll need to go check them out soon. 

Amazing Green Planet will donate 15% of the proceeds from all of its sales on Saturday, December [...]

Introductory Session on Researching Your Family Tree at Locust Grove

My aunt Donna did a bunch of research on the maternal side of my family tree when I was in high school. Thank goodness she did because it made the genealogy project I had to do in school so much easier. Because of her research I know that we’re descendants of Sir Francis Drake (argh! [...]

Master Sommeliers Wine Dinner at Napa River Grill

This is far, far above the normal price range of events I write about on Consuming Louisville. However I was told that there are only “130 Master Sommeliers” in the country and we’ve got two of them here in Louisville. That’s pretty cool right? I’m all about bragging on good things in Louisville so even [...]

Bourbon 101 at UofL

Though they stole the name from me </tongue in cheek joking> I’m pleased to tell you about the University of Louisville’s offering of Bourbon 101.
Join Four Roses Bourbons’ Hall of Fame Master Distiller, Jim Rutledge for a four-session course on the ins and outs of the bourbon industry. You’ll leave with expert knowledge on the [...]