Nibbles
Traversing Colorado’s fast casual restaurant trail
In search of a document lost in the recesses of the basement, I frittered away an hour looking through my “archival” bins of Colorado...
The tart cherry blues
It is cherry season, and while everyone else is feasting on Colorado bing cherries, I’m hunting for Montmorency cherries, one of the best foods...
Yelp needs help
The definition of the word “yelp” is:
“To make a sudden, short, high sound, usually when in pain.”
This came to mind when an outraged Nibbles...
For the love of bacon
Eliza Cross grew up on bacon in Boulder.
“My earliest memory of bacon was my dad cooking it when I was a little girl,” she...
Taste your place this holiday season
Making a holiday meal? Packing a food basket? Planning a get together? Sending a taste of home? Needing a treat to hand to a...
From palette to palate
When Mike Johnston was growing up in Chicago there were herbs and spices in his mother’s kitchen. “My Mom was a good home cook....
Love and lunch
Sipping an Americano at a Boulder cafe, I watched a 30-something woman swiping right rapidly though potential mates on a dating app. This parade...
Getting paid to eat
Food writing was not a serious journalism job. When I started working for local publications in the late 1970s in Colorado, stories about dining,...
Biting cinema
My first conscious memory of food in movies was when the dogs’ lips met in Disney’s animated Lady and the Tramp. Lovers have duplicated...
It’s all relatives
They’re back.
We say that with complete affection and a sense of humor about the family members and friends who will be joining us in...
Saving Thanksgiving
If you are hosting Thanksgiving at your house today, complete with “Alice’s Restaurant” playing in the background, you probably won’t read this until well...
The grill is gone
It’s a matter of definition, not to mention a question of taste.
“Barbecue” can variously mean a cuisine, a method of cooking and a kind...
