Hip Hops: “Erin Go Blagh 2025” is your recurringly necessary St. Paddy’s Day etiquette primer
The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online (or read it at issuu). I concede that it’s been a good while since I wrote about St. Patrick’s Day entirely from scratch. That’s because past efforts have always been ripe for quick and easy remixing, thus sparing me the need to yet again squeeze my brain until it yelps. In my line of work, reruns are absolutely essential; don’t allow anyone to tell you differently. There’s also the matter of lesson plans. Consider that retiring elementary school teachers can look back on careers spent repeating themselves on a daily basis. Each year a new crop of kiddos in desperate need of foundational instruction arrives, and they’re taught the same fundamental lessons as before — that is, until a school board, televangelist or tinhorn dictator scatters the pieces. Consequently, let’s start at...Read more