Cuisine
Barley, hops and gluten
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel recently sent a camera crew out on the streets of LA to ask people who didn’t eat gluten just what it is...
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...
Taking the temperature
You’re lucky I got through,” my server at Centro Latin Kitchen says as he squeezed through the crowded patio and put a chili relleno platter down in front of me. “Everyone I passed wanted this for themselves...
Rising CO2 levels to cut key nutrients in global crops
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, ...
Truth in advertising
Aside from its distinctive flavor palettes, food has more abstract emotional appeals to the senses as well. Dessert tastes like joy. A giant chunk of meat roasted over an open flame tastes deeply, primally, invigorating, like surviving a plane crash or the thrill of ...
Fort Collins Beer Week: Un-festival for local businesses
Savvy beer fans know that May 12-18 is American Craft Beer Week, in which breweries nationwide offer deals, brew special batches and participate in festivals. And though the event was conceived by the Boulder-based Brewers Association, signs of American Craft Brew ...
The Protein Bar out-Boulders Boulder
The PR and marketing department for the newly-opened The Protein Bar has been lobbying BW for its approval, sending over a catered lunch and emailing this reporter offers to set up an official tasting, as if there existed some alternate universe in which the grizzled...
Fort Collins Beer Week is nigh
In last week’s edition of the Boulder Weekly Beer Tour, we told you about a new Tuesday-night running series at Under the Sun in South Boulder...
A coffee high
Arabica coffee beans — by far the most popular variety of coffee — are now fetching around $2 a pound on the world market. That’s nearly double the price of a year ago...
Feel the chill of the Golden Sun
I expected Golden Sun to be a bit divey. It’s a big part of what made me seek out the Chinese restaurant tucked into an awkward corner space on a 28th Street strip mall. Chinese food is best served sketchy, and without a set of tracks to cross to the wrong side of, ...
Morel madness in Colorado
Mushroom hunters are a strange bunch to begin with, scurrying through the forest with their eyes glued to all the damp and shady spots on the ground, hoping to find that treasure trove of delectable fungi. The morel-seeking clan is especially zealous for a ...