Community Table
Out of the oil field, into the smoker
Thank goodness for the oil fields.
That’s not a sentence you’re likely to ever read again in Boulder Weekly. But I mean it. For if...
The pleasures of bitterness
When food isn’t salty enough, we add salt, or salty condiments like soy sauce, or salty foods like bacon. If we need sweetness, we...
Arcana Cider’s and Beer Director Jordan Burghardt on cultivating craft cider...
Three years ago, Jordan Burghardt left his post as beer director at The Kitchen to help build a beverage program from scratch at Arcana,...
Babettes’ Steve Scott on grain sourcing, rising rents and baking beautiful...
Steve Scott is not your typical artisanal baker. After nearly two decades baking in shops from California to Colorado, the former semi-pro cyclist opened...
In season: Beets from Cure Organic Farm
For the longest time, I couldn’t stand beets. Now, I wasn’t doing them any favors by derisively, skeptically throwing them into the oven and...
Food for thought
For as much talk as there is about eating healthy, and the benefits that come to our bodies, minds and lives when we do...
The best tomato ever
At the farmers’ market this spring, I found myself gushing to a grower friend about dry-farmed tomatoes. Dry-farming is a practice that’s been popular...
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...
From Boulder to Ireland, and back
Though everything in Colm O’Neill’s Hard Chaw Strong Irish Whiskey was made in Ireland — the fresh Irish cream, the whiskey and the poitín...
A home for change
Given the appearance of abundant affluence in Boulder County, people are surprised to learn that many residents here don’t have regular access to food....
For success with New Year’s food resolutions, start early
Historians believe the first New Year’s resolutions were to pay debts and return borrowed objects. These days, the most popular ones have been to...
The only grocery store in Lyons is doing well, and now...
Main Street in Lyons is empty. Amid stay-at-home orders, people aren’t going to the nature park or stopping in for a long brunch. They’re...
