Cuisine
Try this week: Spirulina bowl, chili chicken and more
The Spirulina Bowl
Peachy’s Superfruit Cafe, 1926 14th St., Boulder, peachysboulder.com
Good food, good mood” is the name of the game at this superfood joint, which recently...
Turning Japanese
It smells like stale vodka when you sniff it. Then it singes your throat with its flaming jet-fuel flavor, rendering your throat desiccated and...
Mumtaz Mediterranean Food elevates street fare
In four street food dishes, Mumtaz cultivated unique flavor and elevated the routine to the exceptional.
The first dish was a lamb and beef gyro...
Odell’s newest release hits at the right time
This week, Odell Brewing kicked off their “cellar series” by releasing The Meddler, an oud bruin ale. There will be six more releases in...
Feeding the Front Range
President John F. Kennedy once quipped that the farmer is “the only person in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale and pays the freight both ways.” As long-term droughts continue to dry out the fertile valleys and plains of ...
The beer battles
There’s a lot of sharing on our beer tour. When I describe six of a brewery’s beers in this column, I didn’t order six beers. I just brought five people. We pass everything around, and even trade or give away beers we don’t care for...
Newly popular naan tastes like a dream
A sandwich is a sandwich. But a naanwich, well, that's a phenomenon that has popped up all over the nation as Americans warmly embrace the South Asian clay-oven bread known as naan...
Drink this: Wibby Brewing’s Home Team Pilsner
Sporting the red, white and blue, Wibby Brewing’s Home Town Pilsner certainly drank deliciously over the Fourth of July. But just because the month’s...
Natural foods: Who knows what your food actually is?
Business is booming in the organic food sector. Since 2004, sales of organic food have increased 150 percent, from $12 billion to a projected $30 billion in 2013, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. One additional factor that is not included in ...
Try this week: Chicken en mole, rice salad and more
Chicken en Mole
Casa Alegre, 106 Pine St., Louisville, casaalegremex.com
Cooler weather begs to be paired with certain foods — your stews, your soups, your curries, etc....
Lovely chocolate, Boulder style
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence is a quaint village in the south of France, exuding considerable charm by dint of its vintage stone buildings and picturesque rustic landscape. Walking through the town center, one notices a stone facade marked “Jöel Durand - Chocolatier...
All roads lead to Scotch
About eight months ago I made a New Year’s resolution to “get into” Scotch. Scotch, or “single malt whisky,” as I’ve since been corrected numerous times like some dumb alcoholic child, had never made it into my drinking portfolio, even though I love bourbon and rye ...


















