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My father escaped from Nazi Austria in 1938 with his sister and parents. All of them were doctors. The family name was changed to...
Summer food reads 2016
You have to love a cookbook that puts warning labels on some of its recipes:
“Warning! Recipes marked with this symbol are INEDIBLE and shouldn’t...
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...
Fresh First Bite
When First Bite debuted 17 years ago, the Boulder dining landscape was in a different place. Diners snapped up reservations for the annual Restaurant...
The joy of maceration
Raymond Snead says it’s all about maceration. When you do it right — that is, soaking fruit and spices in alcohol and extracting the...
Garden of salvaged delights
I’m not here to guilt-trip you about the fresh vegetables I know you throw out every week. There are plenty of environmental preachers who...
The noodle nerd
In Greek mythology, the chimera (pronounced kai-mere-uh) was a fire-breathing creature with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, a serpent’s tail and some complicated personal...
The implausible burger
There was a Whopper to the left of me and an Impossible Whopper to the right as I sat at a local Burger King...
Prime time
In 1969, the hippies had invaded Boulder and Richard Nixon was president. Cell phones, the internet and the Paleo diet were decades in the future....
The tomato speaks
Frankly, you haven’t experienced summer until tomato juice is dripping down your chin, according to local fresh-tomato cultists.
First, find a totally ripe, field-grown tomato,...
Using your noodles
The bucatini guanciale carbonara served at Boulder’s Emmerson restaurant only includes the essentials. The long, tubular, house-made noodles are cooked al dente and tossed...
Pepperoni has become salami non grata at Neapolitan pizzerias
People talk a lot about ham and pineapple pizza, barbecue chicken pizza and crusts topped with sardines, artichokes, ricotta salata and arugula, but every...