Nibbles
Cornering the Market
Go the distance. That’s the prime directive. Walk through the whole Boulder Farmers Market first, before you buy anything, says manager Liz Thomas. “It’s...
Buffaloed in Boulder
It’s hard to miss the buffaloes in Boulder. Everywhere you turn there are business names and large-headed animals on beer cans, signs, T-shirts, the...
Dishing Colorado kudos
There may have been a time when Colorado wasn’t a blip on the national culinary radar — certainly not Boulder or Aurora — but...
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...
Unboxing local flavors
There is a lot to loathe about services like Blue Apron that deliver meal prep boxes. During the height of the pandemic, lots of...
Blood, sweat and cheers
Before my career in culinary journalism, I was a Boulder restaurant cook. I was burned by hot fryer oil, injured in walk-in freezers, sliced...
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...
Will Boulder’s culinary diversity go as strip malls go?
Ras Kassa’s was the coolest culinary anomaly I’d ever encountered in my food writing life. It was an Ethiopian roadhouse set in a Twilight...
Nightmare on Gourmet Street
Chefs dressed in their whites and apron cut imposing figures as they glide through restaurant dining areas. They happily talk about complex cooking techniques,...
Do cookbooks still matter?
On a recent visit to the Peppercorn cookware store on the Pearl Street Mall, I found myself gawking at the hundreds of cookbooks lining...
A passion for paella
You’re never alone when you eat paella.
That’s not some old Spanish saying. It’s a fact. Paella isn’t something delivered by DoorDash that you ingest...
Glazed and consumed
You walk into a cloud heavy with the scent of fried dough, sugar and coffee at Boulder’s new Voodoo Doughnut. Your eyes lock on...
