Nibbles
Cracking down
Names have great power, particularly when it comes to foods we hold near and dear. Take the case of Crack Pie, one of the...
Grill cheese NOT grilled cheese
Pay attention. A light bulb (preferably a low-energy LED bulb) will go on over your head when you find out about grilling cheeses.
No, NOT...
The launch of Longmont Restaurant Week
There was a time when nobody thought about “dining” and “Longmont” in the same sentence. “When I was growing up, my parents always had...
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...
Yelp needs help
The definition of the word “yelp” is:
“To make a sudden, short, high sound, usually when in pain.”
This came to mind when an outraged Nibbles...
Stuffing happens
Holidays bring out the traditionalist in all of us. We have specific side dishes that need to be on the feast table to make...
Great tastes of 2021
When people find out I’ve been writing about food in Boulder since the 1980s they almost invariably ask, “What’s the best restaurant in Boulder?”
The...
Will Boulder’s culinary diversity go as strip malls go?
Ras Kassa’s was the coolest culinary anomaly I’d ever encountered in my food writing life. It was an Ethiopian roadhouse set in a Twilight...
Hacking the new apple
I grew up right next door to Johnny Appleseed.
Admittedly it was several hundred years apart, but my Massachusetts hometown, Fitchburg, was right next to...
Do cookbooks still matter?
On a recent visit to the Peppercorn cookware store on the Pearl Street Mall, I found myself gawking at the hundreds of cookbooks lining...
Fresh First Bite
When First Bite debuted 17 years ago, the Boulder dining landscape was in a different place. Diners snapped up reservations for the annual Restaurant...
