Cuisine

Brew Day with Wild Woods and Upslope

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Jake Evans of Wild Woods Brewery and Sam Scruby of Upslope Brewing Company are ready to do something stupid. Or, as Scruby quickly corrects,...

Drink beer made here

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Even before the final awards were handed out, Good Beer Hunting encapsulated the spirit of the 37th Great American Beer Festival with a single...

Formidable pho

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Pressed for time, colleague Carin and I weren’t enthused to seek a blah lunch at a ho-hum sandwich shop or fast food joint during a recent journey to Broomfield. I also realized it had been some time since I had enjoyed a bowl of pho, Vietnamese beef noodle soup. ...

Taste buds to the rescue

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The fungus that caused the 19th century Irish Potato Famine wouldn’t have claimed a million lives if Ireland had been growing more than one potato variety, experts say. And today, experts warn about a similar dependence on only a handful of crop varieties...

Where to eat Mexican pastries, how to cook tuna in banana...

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Taste of the Week: Panadería Sabor a México On a recent Sunday morning, I was gawking at a wall of pastries, cookies and buns when...

Try this week: Red rooster, machaca burrito and mroe

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Red Rooster Village Coffee Shop, 1605 Folsom St., Boulder, villagecoffeeshopboulder.com Maybe the last restaurant holdout of Old Boulder, Village Coffee Shop is still worth the wait. And...

The buzz and the bees

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Tim Brod has spent a lifetime having close encounters of the stinging kind with the bees he lives and works with. But he’s not...

A taste of Kerouac

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Among the guys in my high school, there were two kinds of people. You had those who worshipped at the altar of The Who and the Rolling Stones, devotees of high-powered Brit guitar rock. I was one of those guys. On the other hand, there were the tie-dyed Deadheads. ...

Exploring Burgundy Côte d’Or with seven wines

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When my brother asked me to teach him and some friends about “serious” Burgundy, I was worried. How could I possibly walk them through the Côte d’Or without bankrupting the family...

Not your average neighborhood coffee shop

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Vajra Rich looks like a mad scientist, complete with messy hair, a glint in his eyes and beakers and circular heaters that look like they belong in a chemistry lab. He doesn’t work with obscure chemicals or create monsters though. He makes coffee...

Asian food for all tastes

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Pan-Asian  variety is the name of the game at Pearl Street’s Moongate Asian Bistro, which features a diverse and affordable Asian menu. Classic Chinese-American cookery is one of the stars of the show here,  with such venerable chestnuts as Kung Pao chicken and ...

Much ado about poison

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In late March, two couples filed a class-action lawsuit in California alleging that some of the nation’s top-selling low-cost wines contain unsafe levels of arsenic. “Just a glass or two” of wine from producers like Cupcake, Charles Shaw, Franzia, Rex Goliath and ...