Cuisine

In Italy, Alberto Sabbadini’s family and neighbors butchered a pig every winter. His father or a neighbor would shoot it in the head with a .22-caliber rifle, slit its throat just so and hang it from a tree, snoutdown, to drain the blood. They’d catch the blood in a ...

Toward the end of the night, a patron of the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless said it’s bittersweet when volunteer kitchen manager Mark Biggers makes a meal — the food was always good, but, the man said, it was making him fat...

There is a lot to like about Brooklyn Deli in Longmont. It imports many of its ingredients from New York or thereabouts. It accurately offers many of the classic sandwiches you’d find in a New York deli. It has a welcoming, East Coast sense of hospitality. It sells ...

When the stars of the tennis world battled it out on the courts of Wimbledon a few weeks ago, viewers not only be turned their heads left and right following the action on the court, but up and down as well, as gallons upon gallons of Pimm’s No. 1 Cups were thrown ...

Seth Johnson and Justin Lee were both University of Colorado graduate students at the same time, studying physics and chemical engineering, respectively. But that’s not where they met. They met as members of the Boulder Home Brew Club, where the duo found they’d ...

There’s a spice that’s separate from the food itself, a flavor that doesn’t come from the dish. It’s the atmosphere in which a meal is enjoyed, and it can transform a regular outing into a distinctive experience...

New research studying 41 strains of six different crops on three continents that was published May 7 in the scientific journal, Nature, shows that as concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase, the nutritional content of key food crops will drop, ...

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...

Decades from now, when you reflect on what dining was like during the fledgling years of the 21st century, on a good day you will picture a heartening trend toward comfort food in the wake of Sept. 11 and a well-meaning push toward locally sourced menus...

Once known as Pizzeria Basta, the Boulder eatery now simply known as Basta still serves savory wood oven pies. But this name change more accurately reflects a menu offering much more than just pizza, which is a smart move. Because while I’ve always felt the pies here...

Growing up, outside of being the ugly, bad-tasting vegetable no one wanted on the veggie platter at parties — the one even ranch dressing couldn’t help — cauliflower was rarely seen at my house, but for one exception: fried cauliflower. In my current commitment to ...

In 1978, there were 42 brewing companies and less than 100 brewing locations in the United States. Today, there are 5,600 breweries. “Something amazing happened...