Nibbles
Turkey Day terrors
Every November for 30 years or so I’ve written about the big day and shared my family’s recipe for Italian sausage and potato stuffing.
Every...
Appetite for kindness
I was sitting at a busy Boulder restaurant with a bunch of folks, but I might as well have been eating alone. Everyone at...
Discovering Yucatan
Monday through Friday, Lafayette’s Off Campus Cafe is a great place to wake up with pancakes, eggs and well-made lattes. A lunch line forms...
I <3 Falafel
I’m not a vegan nor a vegetarian. I do enjoy yummy animal proteins, but I often end up going meatless when I’m out. These...
Cooking under the hood
How hot is it today?
For sure, it’s just too toasty to turn on the stove, never mind the oven in your house. While it...
The butterfly sausage effect
Conventional wisdom says there are two things you never want to watch being made: sausages and laws. If you knew what went into creating...
Open and shut
2023 may be remembered as the year the restaurant scene in Boulder County came back to life. Reanimated by the inaugural Colorado Michelin awards,...
A little pickle-ish
It takes guts to get through this life in good shape; in particular, guts full of hard-working helpful microbes.
The scientific evidence, like a...
Tempeh town
Living in and around Boulder, we’ve had the opportunity to taste tons of tofu, loads of seitan, and oodles of vegetable-based meat substitutes. By...
‘It wasn’t foodie heaven yet’
Scarcely a month passes without the City of Boulder winning another food and drink award. This month alone ApartmentGuide.com named Boulder one of the...
Boulder’s brunch revival
Contrary to street rumors at the time, brunch was not created in Boulder in the 1970s, but the weekend meal has found a warm...
Back around the table
When we last connected, it was March 19, 2020. My Nibbles column that day chronicled a surreal late-night trip to the supermarket “for some...


















