Nibbles
Super bowls
The last time the Denver Broncos went to the Super Bowl, I invited folks over for a party. We were all set with a...
‘Babette,’ Bourdain, baked goods toasted at Boulder’s Food Film Fest
The first time I saw Babette’s Feast, I left the theater ravenously famished, emotionally drained and spiritually moved.
One of the Danish film’s key characters,...
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...
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...
The greater pumpkin
Canned pumpkin is a lot like canned music.
Both require old-fashioned devices to use, and both products are highly over-processed. You need tinny loudspeakers and...
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...
Grocerants and pulses rising
For as long as I can remember I’ve been a food trend nerd and fascinated by the food of the future as depicted in...
Taxing memories
Math and I have always had an adversarial relationship. Born minus the calculus gene, math was the one subject that marred my straight A’s...
Chews wisely
Me and fad diets go way back. Mom told me that when I was a toddler doctors advised her to feed me an egg...
How the sausage was made
The earliest known comment on my future career choices was uttered by Grandma Alice, my dad’s mother, in 1954 a few months after I was born...
