Food Bender 2010: Cincinnati and North Central Kentucky
Just before midnight, Monday, May 03, 2010 • 3 responses
Food Bender 2010 involved some quality time in a part of the country I don’t know very well—the southeastern midwest (or if you prefer, the northwestern South). In 2008, I went to the Woodworking in America Handtools Event in Berea, Kentucky, but other than my brief stay at the Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, that trip was primarily about woodworking, not about food.
This year, in addition to a few nights in Cincinnati (a way cool town, it turns out), three friends and I used the Old Ministry House (pictured above) as a base of operations for exploring the area’s culinary and cultural offerings. The bucolic setting and the sporadic mobile phone reception left me about as unplugged as I get—both mentally and electronically. …