Nibbles
Chewing the faux fat
It’s like a scene from The Matrix films set in the produce aisle at Sprouts: A woman offers a sample of a new local...
Do cookbooks still matter?
On a recent visit to the Peppercorn cookware store on the Pearl Street Mall, I found myself gawking at the hundreds of cookbooks lining...
The Big Dipper
The muggy summer afternoon snapshot features a back seat crammed with bathing-suit clad siblings united in a desperate plea: “Dairy Queen, please!”
Going out for...
Haute dog days
Paolo Neville has been there and done that, cooking serious cuisine at fine-dining restaurants in California’s wine country and locally at The Med, Brasserie...
Boulder’s Michelin moment
For a restaurant, nothing beats a Michelin star award. It instantly bestows legitimacy and puts the local food scene on the map.
When the announcement...
Sibling rivalry
Standing at his booth handing out tasty samples, a vendor at the Longmont Farmers Market leans forward and confides conspiratorially:
“Actually, Longmont is a better...
The new food patriotism
The last thing on Ruth Reichl’s mind as the pandemic began in 2020 was to make a food documentary. Like the rest of us,...
Fermenting joy
As far as Daren Cook is concerned, humans never would have made it without fermentation.
It’s hard to imagine a tolerable modern life without beer,...
Colorado flavor tripping
Have you been immersed?
We are not talking about baptism, but it can be a sort of religious experience. Immersive experiences are all the buzz...
For the love of bacon
Eliza Cross grew up on bacon in Boulder.
“My earliest memory of bacon was my dad cooking it when I was a little girl,” she...
Mom’s kitchen table
It all started with lasagna. I credit my career as a print and radio journalist to daily vocabulary tests, four years of Latin, and...
The teas that bind
The Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse is an otherworldly icon. Its ornate carved plaster panels, colorful ceramic tile mosaics and fragrant rose garden are a breath...