Nibbles
Thighs and whispers
Like any parent, I wait until I see my child in person to have The Talk. So when Hans unexpectedly visited last weekend from...
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...
Room at the feast
Boulder is an absolutely distinctive place, and the city has the kudos to prove it. Boulder has been named America’s foodiest town with one...
Return to scenter
If you open up your snail mailbox and find that it smells like blue raspberry popsicles, do not be alarmed, and do not call...
Crack the ‘egg’
I grew up long ago in the land of eggplant Parmesan. As an Italian Catholic kid in New England, the Friday meatless-meal rotation featured fried...
Steep terrain
It takes a lot for me to give up on iced tea for the calendar year. I always rue that day because I know what...
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...
The sounds of cooking
I was cleaning the electric slicing machine when the mariachi music was cranked up. The device had just been used to thinly slice 25...
Biting cinema
My first conscious memory of food in movies was when the dogs’ lips met in Disney’s animated Lady and the Tramp. Lovers have duplicated...
Introducing iDinner 8.0
The Food Marketing Institute reminded me recently that September is the third annual National Family Meals Month. Apparently we need an official commemoration to...
Scratch and bites
I spied some fake food news recently as I walked down the frozen food aisle, progressively triggering the motion detectors and illuminating the products inside...
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...
