Nibbles
Save the bounty!
I can tell you are drowning in fresh, local produce of summer — the lettuces, peaches, etc. — and taking it for granted. You are...
Same as it ever was
The Friday night before had been as high as this particular Saturday morning was low, hungover and headache-y. Under mirrored sunglasses my eyes wished the Boulder...
Return to scenter
If you open up your snail mailbox and find that it smells like blue raspberry popsicles, do not be alarmed, and do not call...
How to become a mashed potato GOAT
For all its culinary hipness, Boulder is really ground zero of the Mashed Potato Belt. You don’t have to look far to uncover the...
Your first time
You never forget your first kiss and the first time people laughed at your jokes. I also remember my very first taste of certain...
Food fans are at Boulder County farm stands
I love farmers markets. I’m glad so many folks are visiting them and getting in touch with local food. However, these markets are not enough....
How Boulder became the birthplace of National Pie Day
On Saturday, the people of the United States will enjoy a day devoted to the dessert that defines our country, National Pie Day. Few...
Crack the ‘egg’
I grew up long ago in the land of eggplant Parmesan. As an Italian Catholic kid in New England, the Friday meatless-meal rotation featured fried...
Meat the future
Cultured, fermented and 3D printed foods are almost on the table, but will dinner still taste good?
Great tastes of 2021
When people find out I’ve been writing about food in Boulder since the 1980s they almost invariably ask, “What’s the best restaurant in Boulder?”
The...
Carpe Pancakes
I’m awake before the alarm and before the dawn.
This is a situation I would have avoided at all costs when I lived a younger man’s...
What’s faux dinner?
Since 1985 a singular artifact has always hung on my walls no matter where I have worked and lived. It is an aluminum foil...
