Nibbles
Waste makes taste
Lots of Colorado food companies call their products “local,” but it may really mean “regional.” Many restaurants detail the local source of their ingredients...
Discover your roots
You wouldn’t know it now, but beets used to be bad. Several generations of Americans absolutely loathed beets.
“I always avoid eating them,” Barack Obama,...
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...
Saving Thanksgiving
If you are hosting Thanksgiving at your house today, complete with “Alice’s Restaurant” playing in the background, you probably won’t read this until well...
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...
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...
