Community Table
The ongoing transformation of the iconic Greenbriar Inn
Even empty, The Greenbriar Inn north of Boulder feels cozy. The putting-green carpet, the old maps of wine regions, the dark wood and soft...
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...
Uncork an experience
In spring during normal years, Settembre Cellars Owners Blake and Tracy Eliasson would be passing out samples of their well-aged, single-varietal, Colorado-grown wines in...
Le French Café’s Agnes and Quentin Garrigou on casual French food
Agnes and Quentin Garrigou, the husband-wife owners of Boulder’s Le French Café, grew up around food. For, they are French.
“Food is so important,” Agnes...
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...
Cuckoo for cocoa nog
When the weather turns cold, we turn to hot cocoa. Like the vanishing sun, that steaming cup is a source of warmth and energy,...
The giving season
When Halloween passes and we push our clocks back for daylight saving time, many of us turn our attentions to the holiday season. Lest...
Rare air
The last person I saw was the Klein Matterhorn lift operator, who told me he was shutting down the lifts due to wind and...
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...
That’s a wrap
When I was a teenage prep cook, I created a dish that never made it onto the menu, even as a special, and even...
Fortunate ones
When the thousand-year flood hit Boulder County in 2013, the Lyons Fork was not spared. Water gushed in through the back door and filled...
Ginning up
Let’s start with some fun facts: 70 percent, at least, of the gin produced in the U.K. comes from Scotland. Three of the world’s...
