Nibbles
Return to Tofu Town
In our last episode, Boulder was featured fleetingly on national TV when Michael Scott from The Office was moving here to marry, have four...
Heart of the kitchen
According to Wendi Calder, the mission of Boulder Food Rescue (BFR) is a winner all around:
Take fresh edible produce destined for the landfill...
Everybody mukbang tonight
Yogurt, bottled water, pizza, poultry sandwiches, Mexican food, fresh fruit, bars, ice cream sandwiches, chips and pancakes were the Top 10 most influential foods...
Chewing the faux fat
It’s like a scene from The Matrix films set in the produce aisle at Sprouts: A woman offers a sample of a new local...
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...
Taste of the Week: Coors Field, Denver
Visiting Coors Field for the first time in several years, I strolled past a large menu of (expensive) culinary options ranging from Helton onion...
Lessons learned in Mom’s kitchen
Even now I can transport immediately to Mom’s kitchen and seat myself against the pantry closet and watch her make stuffed cabbage, or Portuguese...
Marrying meals
Devising a wedding day menu that fits everybody’s dietary desires can be a tasting challenge
Where the wild blues are
The Blueberry Man always showed up at the back door of my childhood home on hot summer Saturday mornings. I never knew the name...
Grain bowl game
I can’t stand quinoa.
I know that’s heresy in Boulder County, where quinoa is more common on menus than cheeseburgers.
I loathe quinoa’s squishy, rubbery texture, its...
Fermenting joy
As far as Daren Cook is concerned, humans never would have made it without fermentation.
It’s hard to imagine a tolerable modern life without beer,...
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...
