Cuisine

Finding the cure

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There’s a bit of magic in curing meat. Letting a fresh cut muscle or sausage hang just below room temperature while a salt cure slowly marbleizes and condenses the flavor of the meat over the course of months until you take it down, slice a few pieces and share it ...

Make a mess at Ras Kassa’s

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The name sounds like it belongs to the latest Batman villain, but the reality of Ras Kassa’s is much less nefarious...

Nothing bitter about this bar

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It was once a happy place, and now it’s bitter...

Print your cake and eat it too

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Electronic devices do everything for us; smart phones comb over the world’s news to deliver us personalized feeds and we can connect with friends instantaneously using watches. Now, engineers are building printers capable of replicating mom’s homemade recipes...

The great gluten debate

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The term “gluten-free” has become something of a catchphrase around Boulder. There are gluten-free restaurants, gluten-free frozen foods, gluten-free cookies, bagels and breads. Though gluten-free foods are becoming a norm in Boulder, there is some debate about ...

Trading up

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On Dec. 17, President Obama announced a monumental decision for Cuba and United States relations in a speech on Cuba policy changes from the White House...

Turning little thumbs green

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Tucked neatly in a corner by the basketball court is Casey Middle School’s Learning Garden. The garden is brought to life by towering sunflowers, beds of lettuce and an array of herbs like mint, oregano and thyme...

Pucker up

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Recently, New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins added Snapshot to their year-round lineup, which is billed as a citrusy and tart wheat beer. Although not listed on the bottle, Snapshot utilizes a mixed-fermentation which includes lactobacillus (a yeast strain which can...

Chinese-American standbys

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I’ve finally taken a “If you can’t beat, join ‘em” tack to my critical assessment of local Chinese restaurants. No longer do I hold Boulder eateries to the same standard of the Bay Area joints of my youth. Why? Because for the most part, establishments around here ...

Pumpkin beer is here

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Pumpkin ales are as highly anticipated as any seasonal beer, neck-and-neck with Christmas ales...

Now seating the Flintstones

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It was 2013’s most-Googled diet. Over 500 Registered Dieticians named it one of 2014’s top diet trends. And these days, it seems like every single one of the thousands of people nationwide who follow the paleolithic or Paleo diet live in Boulder...

A hipster visit to Boulder’s Snooze

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A couple months back, I was chatting on the phone with my sister when I mentioned my fear of becoming a hipster...