Cuisine
New in brew: Brunch beers
In Colorado, drinking and dining on the patio is a year-round activity, and some months are more pleasant for it than others. Now is...
Four courses to try in Boulder County this week
Burrata
Via Perla, 901 Pearl St., Boulder, viaperla.com
There’s much to like in Via Perla’s burrata. First, the burrata itself — a mound of herbaceous, fresh mozzarella...
Back in vogue
Corned beef was one of those foods that sat perennially in the pantry of my parent’s kitchen, opaque jelly covering pinkish meat in an...
The return of Alfalfa’s
Alfalfa´s Market is returning to its roots this week with an emblematic Earth Day opening on April 22 and a commitment to local and organic products that has survived nearly three decades of change...
Eat a plant and spare a tree
Say goodbye to the steaks. Forget the foie gras. Put that pork chop away (assuming you can afford any of them). UK-based scientists say eating less meat is a vital part of tackling climate change...
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 ...
Mainlining cured meats and cheeses
Back in the ’70s, Dad would often return from overseas business trips with his battered black briefcase freighted not with paperwork, but culinary treasures. Returning from Lisbon, Dad once brought back an enigmatic hunk of salted meat. “It’s Portuguese prosciutto,” ...
Sustainability tax
In a poll conducted by Talmey-Drake Research and Strategy, Inc., in February and March of this year, 58 percent of voters indicated that they’d likely vote for a sustainability tax if money was spent on assisting local organic farmers...
Odell’s latest, a black IPA, balances out the bite
Twitter begging: It's not just for celebrity retweets on your birthday any more...
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...
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...


















