Cuisine

Beer pong. Flip cup. Quarters. For beer guzzlers, there’s no shortage of ways to make drinking fun. Even if college is solidly in the rearview mirror, most of us can bank on one friend — or several — attempting to shotgun a beer at some point every summer...

No season is paired with better drinking than winter. Hot alcoholic beverages warm bodies on snowy strolls or mountain hikes. Powerful and rich drinks warm the soul with fat and liquor...

In so many ways Louisville is the opposite of New Orleans. I won’t enumerate them here, but think about it this weekend when you have some time. The point is that despite that difference, Louisville — with its growing restaurant scene and population of families of ...

Two years have passed since a federal jury convicted Rudy Kurniawan, a prominent wine collector, of fraud for selling counterfeit wines. When the FBI raided Kurniawan’s home in March 2013, they discovered thousands of fake wine labels and hundreds of bottles and ...

The U.S. Food and Drug and Adminstration’s (FDA) recent approval of a genetically modified (GM) salmon was hailed as progress by proponents of GM food. It may be. But the reaction to the salmon’s approval, coupled with the fact that under current laws it won’t be ...

It’s open mic comedy night at Johnny’s Cigar Bar. Have any four words ever simultaneously inspired so much giddy excitement and sheer terror as “open mic comedy night...

When my brother asked me to teach him and some friends about “serious” Burgundy, I was worried. How could I possibly walk them through the Côte d’Or without bankrupting the family...

Few things in the culinary world are anticipated annually as much as the release of Pappy Van Winkle. Colorado gets its share of the esteemed bourbon whiskey typically later than the rest of the country, and so November and December are prime Pappy-spotting months in...

Sherpa’s Adventurers in Boulder feels a little bit like home — not necessarily your own home, but a home...

So it’s telling that Bernard’s estate in Sauternes, Clos des Lunes, focuses almost exclusively on dry wines...

Onions are in season right now, but we don’t squeal for them as we do for the likes of tomatoes and corn. Onions are the stepsisters of the kitchen, perennially improving meals and sending their glamorous siblings to the table with the support of deep, rich flavors. ...

Finding a place at the Boulder breakfast table is often troublesome. Though it’s not necessarily a Boulder-specific problem — the truth is that, proportionately, there aren’t a lot of breakfast joints, and people like eating breakfast out. It’s cheap, it’s delicious ...