Cuisine
Shape-shifting pasta
This may be a little too personal but seriously: How’s your pasta life?
If you’re like most Americans, pasta night is fairly bland and predictable....
Four courses to try in Boulder County this weekend
Montreal-style everything bagel with herbed chèvre
Woodgrain Bagels
2525 Arapahoe Ave., Suite E-1A, Boulder,
woodgrainbagels.com
You don’t know you need Montreal-style bagels in your life until a)...
Somewhere over the rainbow (curry)
Wind blew light rain this way and that as streams snaked down the sides of Pearl Street. The days are still hot and sunny,...
Building a bar, one ingredient at a time
A negroni, that simple classic of gin, vermouth and amaro, is still a negroni if you swap out the gin (though sometimes you add...
Kung fu cuisine
Only in New York could this happen:
Steve Redzikowski’s older brother goes off to join the Marines. He tells Steve, “You need a job, you’re...
Brown rush
Few things in the culinary world are anticipated annually as much as the release of Pappy Van Winkle. Colorado gets its share of the esteemed bourbon whiskey typically later than the rest of the country, and so November and December are prime Pappy-spotting months in...
The great taco tour of Lafayette
I moved to Boulder from Idaho, a place where residents occasionally describe ketchup not just as spicy, but as “too spicy.” Though it should go without saying, that philosophy doesn’t do wonders for the local Mexican food...
In search of a sustainable future
As we approach the season of looking back, two recent reports in the food and beverage world are looking forward.
The first, Good Food 100,...
Know your brew: Lager
Much like penicillin and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, lager’s genesis was accidental. As the story goes, lager was discovered in Bavaria (or neighboring Bohemia,...
The taco, revisited
The taco has deep, traditional roots that go back as early as 18th-century Mexico, and still today those same flavors can be found at traditional Mexican restaurants across the United States and in Boulder County...
Try this week: Garden Pizza @ Boss Lady Pizza
If you didn’t stress eat a pizza or two on Election Night — or even if you did — indulge in some more comfort...
Anatomy of a collaboration
Let’s put a pair of leather chaps in the mash, or cactus or tumbleweed.” That was the first idea Jason Buehler, head brewer of Oskar Blues in Lyons, had for Hi*Beams Honky Tonk Ale, a collaboration beer made not with another brewery, but a honky tonk band. No chaps ...


















