Happy anniversary to Food Lab in Boulder, the cooking school founded in 2015 by Casey Easton. Food Lab is expanding to Denver's Platt Park this summer, at 1250 S. Pearl St.
Currently on the calendar at Food Lab: St. Patrick's Day small plates, Easter brunch and summer camp for kids. Try tasty recipes from Food Lab, including butternut squash soup and goddess slaw with sweet potatoes.
Coming soon: Pearl Poke, 2010 10th St., former home of the relocated Zoe Ma Ma, which moved around the corner to a bigger location just west of the Pearl Street Mall. Owner Edwin Zoe has closed the second Zoe Ma Ma location at 1625 Wynkoop Street in Denver next to Union Station.
Culinary Calendar: Lettuce grow
Make it more likely that your beloved produce survives from seed to table by taking a class now from Boulder experts. Growing Gardens offers vegetable gardening classes March 6 and March 8. growinggardens.org/classes
Harlequin’s Gardens offers hands-on vegetable growing classes March 8 and March 16. bit.ly/VeggieGardenBW
Slow Food Denver hosts a tasting of Colorado wines March 8 in the Mile High City. State winemakers — including Boulder’s Bookcliff Vineyards — pour their wines with a sommelier-led tasting of the Western Slope’s top vintages. bit.ly/WineTastingBW
Words to Chew On: Hungering for love
“It happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… It is all one.”
— From The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher
John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles and Kitchen Table Talk on KGNU: kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles.