Boulder Spirits took home significant honors at the recent 2025 World Whiskies Awards America in Kentucky, winning for World’s Best Small Batch Bourbon for its Boulder Spirits 2024 Cask Strength Bourbon. The spirit beat distilleries from Kentucky and Tennessee. Boulder Spirits’ bourbon is made with 51% corn, 44% malted barley and 5% rye.
Happy 10th anniversary to The Roost restaurant in Longmont.
The MASA Farm’s remarkable seedhouse is open for the season, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 pm Monday-Saturday on 75th Street at Arapahoe Avenue. The Seedhouse stocks hundreds of vegetable, flower and grain seed varieties grown for Boulder County’s climate.
Coming soon: Kura Revolving Sushi Bar at 29th Street Mall.
Culinary Calendar: Fermented fundamentals
Friends Farm hosts a hand-on class in making fermented beverages including kombucha, water kefir and beet kvass March 23 at Louisville's Herbiculture Hub Farm. Tickets: friendsfarm.org
Denver’s annual Bowl of ’Zole event March 20 in Denver celebrates pozole, Mexican desserts and agave spirits featuring chefs Beto Reyes (3 Margaritas), Dana Rodriguez (Cantina Loca), Oscar Padilla (Chulo Taco) and Antonio Tevillo of Tamayo. bowlofzole.com
Words to Chew On: A woman’s place
“Ask a woman what cooking means. It means the endurance, the long suffering and martyrdom of Joan of Arc. It means perspiration and desperation and resignation. Then she must rise above it all and be a lady.” — From Dainty Dishes and How to Serve Them by the Ladies’ Aid Society of First Baptist Church in Boulder, early 1900s.
John Lehndorff is a former cook at the Alpha Phi Sorority House, Potter’s, Yocom’s Studio Restaurant and the Greenbriar Inn. He welcomes chef Edwin Zoe of Zoe Ma Ma from 8:30 to 9 a.m. March 13 on a special edition of the 30-year-old Radio Nibbles on KGNU-FM, streaming at kgnu.org.
Read about John Lehndorff's latest endeavor as exhibit historian for 'Boulder Eats!: Food tradition along the Front Range' coming to the Museum of Boulder this fall.