You can buy the aerosol can of whipped cream or the tub of “non-dairy whipped topping” but I’m totally going to make fun of you and turn up my nose at either of those offerings. I reject the canned and tubbed dessert toppings not because I’m a food snob (well, not just because I’m a food snob) but because it’s so easy to make homemade whipped cream and it tastes so much better.

The Kentucky Derby is run each year on the first Saturday of May. In the Derby’s home city of Louisville, Kentucky two weeks of parties and social events lead up the actual main event. On Derby day an air of festiveness takes over the River City. Everywhere but Louisville?