Community Table
In season: Fairytale eggplants at Rocky Mountain Fresh
We know that carrots, corn, tomatoes and a host of other crops taste better when they’re grown locally by caring farmers. Add eggplant to...
From past to present
Picture a tomahawk steak: a cut of marbled rib-eye beef bigger than your hand and thicker than your wrist with a white bone scraped...
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...
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...
Michael Pollan talks psychedelics and the mind
Michael Pollan says he writes about where “nature and culture intersect,” places that often end up being on our dinner plates and in our...
Changing reservations
If you’ve ever made a reservation at a Boulder County restaurant, chances are you did so through OpenTable. A long list of restaurants in...
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...
Plenty of fish?
File this one under: Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.
New research out of the University of Colorado indicates that in the event of...
Change a-brewing
I’m staring at a giant pink map of the world plastered onto the wall at Gunbarrel’s Ampersand Coffee Roasters. I’ve always been drawn to...
Longmont Restaurant Week returns with unique events, dining specials
Longmont Restaurant Week exceeded expectations when it launched last year. Folks at the Longmont Chamber of Commerce, including a handful of motivated Longmont restaurateurs,...
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...
Tasting (and talking) wine with Master Sommelier Sally Mohr
"I get more of the wood notes, just kind of that tiny bit of black pepper, but I just feel like I’m in the lumber...
