Nibbles
The very, very scary menu
Once upon a dark and stormy night last week, I was consumed by the thought that food is as much about fear as it...
Got rituals?
From the first fingerpicked acoustic guitar licks, the tune sounds just like Thanksgiving to me:
“You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant.
“You can...
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...
The grill is gone
It’s a matter of definition, not to mention a question of taste.
“Barbecue” can variously mean a cuisine, a method of cooking and a kind...
Off-road nibbling
During summer’s peak travel season I get variations on the same question from friends and sometimes strangers that go something like this: “We’re driving...
Same as it ever was
The Friday night before had been as high as this particular Saturday morning was low, hungover and headache-y. Under mirrored sunglasses my eyes wished the Boulder...
Take the family
They’re back!
The friends, the family and the friends of family are dropping by for a visit. After moving to Boulder I noticed a phenomenon:...
Glazed and consumed
You walk into a cloud heavy with the scent of fried dough, sugar and coffee at Boulder’s new Voodoo Doughnut. Your eyes lock on...
Boulder’s brunch revival
Contrary to street rumors at the time, brunch was not created in Boulder in the 1970s, but the weekend meal has found a warm...
For the love of bacon
Eliza Cross grew up on bacon in Boulder.
“My earliest memory of bacon was my dad cooking it when I was a little girl,” she...
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 social food network
Natalie Condon and Natascha Sherman Hess never met when they were growing up near each other in Connecticut, but as they talk on the...
