Deep Dish

The end of typecasting for chicken salad

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Much like Steve Buscemi, chicken salad has long been typecast. It plays a supporting role in picnics and Sunday brunches, baby showers and corporate...

Black Pepper Pho keeps the menu small and the quality high

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You may have noticed that menus are shrinking. No, that’s not an index card on your table, that’s the menu. People like it that...

Hashing it out at the Merc

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Western saloons were created to serve certain kinds of customers: fur trappers, cowboys, lumberjacks, soldiers, miners, outlaws... folks who worked hard, even if outside...

Nostalgia and scallion pancakes

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I was raised in the South, which meant every Sunday my mother would force me into a petty coat, stockings, dress and patent leather Mary...

The history of a sandwich

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A quick word of introduction: This will be, as are most things in life, a work in progress. But the goal of this column...

Fill up on bread

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We’ve all been there: Sitting at dinner, surrounded by loved ones, and out comes a basket of bread. Without fail, someone says, “Don’t fill...

A flower in my teacup

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When people visit Boulder, there are a few places they should experience without question — a hike through one of Chautauqua’s many trails, the...

Giving soup a good rap

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At some point in John Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden, Samuel Hamilton comes down with a hallucination-inducing fever that puts him out of commission...

Let’s raise a scone to Amanda

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At the beginning of last year I was feeling low, quite frankly. Really low. Didn’t-want-to-get-out-of-bed low. I had weathered some personal storms that had...

How many slams in an old screen door?

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Shel Silverstein once asked, poetically, “How many slams in an old screen door?” The answer, he said, “Depends how loud you shut it.” The...

Licking the plate clean

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Once, as I was walking across the intersection of 30th Street and Arapahoe Avenue, a carload of tourists at a stoplight asked me for...

A slice of Texas in Boulder

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For a place that’s only been open for eight months, The Ghost BBQ and Spirits has more stories than some places that have been...