Community Table
Boom or bust?
If you were in a Colorado grocery store over the last few weeks, you likely saw one of two odd things: rows of empty...
State of the food scene
Every week in this space, I share just a little bit of the long and interesting conversations I have with Boulder County’s chefs, restaurateurs,...
Book the cooks
National conversation is fostered through books, reading and writing,” says Anne Macdonald, a librarian and co-director of the Fort Collins Book Festival, which runs...
Wild swing
In the Olympic sport of hammer throw, bulky men and women grip a handle, which is attached to a steel wire with a heavy...
Life’s a peach
It’s peach season in Colorado. Walk into your neighborhood grocery store, stroll the lanes of your nearest Boulder County Farmers Market or peruse the...
Can-do attitude
The pandemic has forced many in the local food industry to adapt… quickly. Qin Liu and Rong Pan, the husband-and-wife founders of Ku Cha...
Rare company
Natascha Hess was sitting in a restaurant with her husband, Steve, late one night several years ago. They were the only two people in...
Cut it (the meat) out
We should’ve expected this. As soon as Gov. Jared Polis proclaimed March 20 Colorado’s MeatOut Day, a long-running national event that encourages people to...
Boulder’s best-kept food secret is in an orthodox church
Boulder County’s best-kept food secret is not hiding in a strip mall. It’s not hiding on the bottom floor of a Boulder apartment complex...
Pork and beans, Brazilian style
Pork and beans is an age-old combination, expressed in countless ways around the world: Southwestern pinto beans refried in lard; Asian tofu with pork...
Action-packed celeriac
It’s a farmers’ market cliché that celeriac is good in soup. I hear it when folks inquire as to how to use this fragrant...
The long road back
Just when we think we’ve passed the worst of the commercial impacts of the coronavirus-related shutdowns, Walnut Restaurant Group, the owners of three of...


















