Nibbles
Crying season
French onion soup has everything that you want in a food experience.
It comes to the table with a heat warning and smoke wafting...
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...
The Rocky Mountain Tea Festival returns
Tea.
That’s the first thing America associates with Boulder... well, beyond any news or sports stories. They think of Celestial Seasonings, America’s best-known herbal...
Sausage city
Chorizo. Andouille. Merguez. Kielbasa. Chipolata. Bangers. Boudin. They’re all made here, along with hot Italian, Polish, German and breakfast links
For a city so closely...
Mom’s kitchen table
It all started with lasagna. I credit my career as a print and radio journalist to daily vocabulary tests, four years of Latin, and...
Brunch boom
Sunday brunch was invented in Boulder in 1978 at eateries like Nancy’s Restaurant. These places treated breakfast as a serious meal. There was a...
‘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...
Longmont’s Little Brooklyn
According to Steve Podel, a real pastrami sandwich should be like the one on the table in front of me.
The pastrami is quite juicy,...
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,...
When life gives you way too much watermelon
People look at you kind of funny when you’re standing in the produce department with a watermelon on each arm. I was weighing the...
The Big Dipper
The muggy summer afternoon snapshot features a back seat crammed with bathing-suit clad siblings united in a desperate plea: “Dairy Queen, please!”
Going out for...
The global stuffing
I’m not here to debate whose family stuffing recipe is the best. Clearly, my stuffing is the greatest of all time. That said, this...
