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Food truck reopens after fire
Aahar India is open again, and owner Akhilesh Nigam couldn’t be happier. “I am very fortunate,” he said this week. “When the trailer burned down, I got lots of sympathy, lots of love, lots of affection...
View ArticleA bright new spot on Dayton Street
Greene Canteen was a bright spot on a drizzly morning this past Saturday, April 20. Owned by villagers Brittany and Tim Baum, the new eatery at 134 Dayton St. officially opened at 11 a.m., with a snip...
View Article30 years of Feast for Friends
On March 14, Evelyn and Tom LaMers will be doing the same thing they’ve been doing the second Saturday of March for the past 27 years — hosting a dinner as part of the Feast for Friends, the Friends...
View ArticleOPERATION Bread Runner — feeding community through baking
By Aurelia Blake If you could slow her down long enough, you might have been able to ask Norah Byrnes how she came to bake and deliver 30 loaves of bread one particular afternoon to individuals and...
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What the village kneads— ‘Bootleg’ bagels fly from local kitchen
Fresh, made-to-order, New York-style bagels are landing close to home. In fact, they’re coming out of a local home on Shawnee Drive, still warm in the bag. Ben Bullock, the baker behind the phenomenon,...
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Need rises, food relief follows
Food insecurity in the U.S. is reaching record heights in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic recession. And even in the relatively well-off community of Yellow Springs, some...
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Thought for Food— Beer cheese soup
I made beer cheese soup for the first time during the initial weeks of lockdown in March of last year. I had a few cans of YS Brewery’s Boat Show that someone had given us and we’d never gotten around...
View ArticleNew bread from age-old process
There’s a special kind of alchemy that goes into bread: grain and water and heat and time, among other things, are components of a spell that materializes into nourishment. Baker James Luckett and...
View ArticleAll I Care to Eat | Ham, cheese and memory
A couple of years ago, I started writing a new column, “All I Care to Eat.” Following a previous occasional recipe column, “Thought for Food,” I thought it might be fun to write about the dishes...
View ArticleAll I Care to Eat | A taquito, please — hold the shame
When I was a kid, I lived for a taquito. If you don’t know — and you probably do, because if you’re reading this fine publication, you’re certainly a person of taste and refinement, but just in case —...
View ArticleAll I Care to Eat | A meal outside of time
If you’ll indulge me, rather than writing about a favorite dish from a local eatery, as is the purported bent of this occasional column, I’d like to shake things up a bit. Admittedly, this being only...
View ArticleAll I Care to Eat | Time enough at last (for eggs)
Growing up in rural Kentucky, my sister and I had a mass of orange daylilies that grew outside the window of our shared bedroom. These flowers were something of a timepiece for us, two kids who could...
View ArticleNatural cheesemaking set at Heartbeat Gardens
Villagers may recognize Sandy King, a self-described lifelong local, and her horse Daisy, from the carriage jaunts around downtown they take folks on during the winter holiday season. But King is also...
View ArticlePoke Island under new ownership
By Dennis Bova A former Yellow Springs resident has taken over Miguel’s Poke Island restaurant. She’s making no changes — for now. Jessica Alt, a 1987 graduate of Yellow Springs High School whose...
View ArticleYellow Springs Community Thanksgiving to return
By Dennis Bova A longtime Yellow Springs holiday tradition that was interrupted by the pandemic in 2020 is returning, thanks to a new round of organizers — who are issuing a call for volunteers. The...
View ArticleCatering to a village for 40 years at Current Cuisine
The days leading up to Thanksgiving are some of the busiest of the year at Current Cuisine. As always, there are a lot of local mouths to feed. Whether it’s for the mashed potatoes smothered in gravy,...
View ArticleFree community meal welcomes all
The locally based Beloved Community Project offers a free community meal the third Saturday of each month, noon–2 p.m., at First Presbyterian Church. The next meal is March 16. All are welcome to...
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