Nibbles
Flatbread Earth
There is something soul-satisfying about grabbing bites of food with pieces of flatbread, whether it is using a warm corn tortilla to snag carnitas,...
The tart cherry blues
It is cherry season, and while everyone else is feasting on Colorado bing cherries, I’m hunting for Montmorency cherries, one of the best foods...
The bite is back
Raise your hand if you only eat or order regularly from the same six eateries. Be honest. Has that preferred restaurant list gotten shorter?...
Tourists in aisle three
Boulder is clearly a magnet for tourists. Some come for the weather, the activities and the yoga pants. Others are clearly drawn by Boulder’s...
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...
Discovering Yucatan
Monday through Friday, Lafayette’s Off Campus Cafe is a great place to wake up with pancakes, eggs and well-made lattes. A lunch line forms...
What’s faux dinner?
Since 1985 a singular artifact has always hung on my walls no matter where I have worked and lived. It is an aluminum foil...
Cooking under the hood
How hot is it today?
For sure, it’s just too toasty to turn on the stove, never mind the oven in your house. While it...
A slice of home
For cousins Waris Yousifi, 23, and Yousof Kohistani, 25, the Afghani flatbread noni is not optional at meals.
“It’s compulsory. You must have this...
The new food patriotism
The last thing on Ruth Reichl’s mind as the pandemic began in 2020 was to make a food documentary. Like the rest of us,...
Cornering the Market
Go the distance. That’s the prime directive. Walk through the whole Boulder Farmers Market first, before you buy anything, says manager Liz Thomas. “It’s...
The power of cheesy bits
Necessity can be a mother, and it helped birth crackers so outrageously tasty you can immerse yourself in them at Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station...
