Cuisine

The first Great American Beer Festival (GABF) was held in the Harvest House Hotel in Boulder in 1982. The motley collection of 22 breweries brought 40 beers, and the 800 people in attendance can say they sampled the beginning of the craft beer revolution...

You know, it’s really funny. These two big loves in my life, and one is film and one is food,” avid food blogger, preservationist and food swapper Julia Joun tells BW over beers at BRU. “Reading about food films, reading about food film festivals and [I thought] ‘Why...

Driving through Longmont, you might notice a bright flash of orange off the side of Highway 119. That’s how it starts...

It seems lately like craft beer brewers are borrowing a page from their brethren in big beer: Less is more. While the craft beer revolution has fundamentally transformed brewing in the United States towards producing bigger and bolder flavored beers, lately more ...

Toward the end of her standing ovation-receiving speech on Sept. 29, Sara Brito, executive director for Chef ’s United, indulged a moment of levity...

When I went to school in Los Angeles, nearly a third of my meals were eaten at Cactus Taqueria, a tiny orange shack outside my apartment near Vine and Melrose. It had enough exhaust from passing traffic to function as a smokehouse, no shade, no seating, no bathroom, ...

This is the first in a two-part series addressing one of the central challenges of the local food movement: what exactly the word “local” means on the consumer end of the market. The second part will explore what it means for food producers...

In many ways, Boulder’s restaurant culture, with its focus on local, organic and high-quality ingredients and preparation, serves as a model for what the rest of the country could be doing to help Americans eat better. But a significant barrier to that end is that ...

While we Americans like to think we are leading the world toward a new golden age of brewing — and we are in some respects — there is still much we can learn from the Old World masters. For example: The Trappist monks have been brewing beer since the Middle Ages...

It was a trip to the Bay Area that finally did Matt Patrick in...

One thing every diner needs in their toolkit is good, simple Asian food. Not simple in the sense that it’s of poor quality, but simple in the sense that it isn’t decorated to death, to the point of terminal tackiness. Just something approachably tasteful, and tasty...

Boulder is known for its tremendous supply of both beer and organic food. But the combination of the two, organic beer, is not as easy to find as Boulder’s reputation would lead you to believe...