Cuisine
In pursuit of waffles
Iva Paleckova spent half a year developing the waffle batter for Blooming Beets Kitchen. Waffles are a little trickier when they’re not only gluten-free...
When life gives you way too much watermelon
People look at you kind of funny when you’re standing in the produce department with a watermelon on each arm. I was weighing the...
Embracing the Rhone Rangers
Raise your hand if customers regularly come in and ask for a good Cabernet.”
I recently issued this directive to a group of 40 sommeliers,...
‘The Water Knife’ and Dale’s Pale Ale
With the sun blaring, it is the perfect afternoon for reading, but not for sitting in the sun. I’m 60 pages away from finishing...
From palette to palate
When Mike Johnston was growing up in Chicago there were herbs and spices in his mother’s kitchen. “My Mom was a good home cook....
The history of a sandwich
A quick word of introduction: This will be, as are most things in life, a work in progress. But the goal of this column...
A hint at Boulder’s true food history
Buttermilk Candy. Orange-Pineapple Congealed Salad. Potato Chip Cookies.
Unpretentious recipes for everyday and special occasion dishes like these fill the pages of one of my favorite Boulder...
Celebrating balance in Pinot Noir
If a Pinot Noir is overwhelmed with fruit — or, indeed, by any element, like oak, fruit extraction, fruit ripeness or alcohol — you’re...
Roots to root for
Like parsnips, sunchokes keep in the frozen ground through the winter and be dug up in spring. Also known as Jerusalem artichokes, they have...
Goldilocks and the just-right glass of iced ‘cold’ not ‘old’ coffee
Once upon a time last week hot coffee was my lifeblood, my winter raison d’etre. All it takes is one morning where it’s 70...
The pied piper of pulses
Ron Pickarski remembers the first time he made tempeh. It was 1976, and packaged meat substitutes were not only absent from grocery stores, they...
Trading a desk job for one in the vineyards
Finding Shane Finley was easy.
Via email, we planned to meet for lunch at Bourbon Steak in Washington, D.C., a restaurant that’s housed at the...
