Community Table
Put a radish anywhere but salad
A radish sends mixed messages. They can look like something designed by Willy Wonka, but taste like mustard gas. In perhaps the ultimate bait-and-switch...
Shared recipes
Renee Fajardo and her seven children are from Colorado. Really.
“It’s become more difficult as more transplants have moved here,” Fajardo says. “We’ll go ‘We’re...
The Argentine Dream
Boy, it seems a little unfashionable nowadays to share a story extolling the virtues of the American dream. Particularly around Thanksgiving, at a time...
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,...
A sight to behold
How often in this food section do we get to talk about lucha libre wrestling?
But such is the state of food in Boulder County....
Three’s a pair?
Gelato, cigars and peaches. What do those three things have in common? Boulder County, as it turns out.
In the next two weekends, three food...
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...
September is food festival season
Good news: it’s food festival season. There will be no better time than the next few weeks to sample global flavors, unique beers and...
Community’s Chris Teigland on comfort food
Community Chef Chris Teigland is easy-going. People notice.
“Even at work people are like, ‘You’re never mad,’” Teigland says. “I’m a mellow dude. There’s always...
The first to 40
“What are these hippies doing up here in Boulder?” Randolph Ware, co-founder of Boulder Brewing Company, remembers Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) inspector Lou...
That’s a great idea, Charlie
The year: 1981. The
protagonist: Charlie Papazian, America’s homebrewing advocate. The setting: the
Great British Beer Festival in England.
“In those days, the closest thing to...
Plants, elevated
When in Paris, I had the chance to dine at Chef Alain Passard’s L’Arpege, an internationally renowned restaurant that at the time (2015) was...
