Cuisine
A Canadian guilty pleasure on the Hill
Despite its Francophone pedigree and deserved reputation as one of the most European of North American cities, Montreal claims surprisingly few culinary specialties as its own. Sure, there’s smoked meat, steak seasoning and wood-fired bagels, but these are reasonably...
More malt magic
I offered my apologies to Oskar Blues back in March, when I made my first trip to the Tasty Weasel and Grill & Brew and learned there’s a lot more to Boulder County’s brewing bad boys than hop-forward beers like Dale’s and Deviant Dale’s...
Getting into the Gindi
Boulder’s Gindi Café has a European influence exemplified by offering both food and ambience best described as fresh and modern. One is certainly glad this eatery chooses to emulate these continental qualities instead of, say, those of the Inquisition or Serge ...
Long, strange trip: Notions about food change over four decades
Notions about food change over four decades Earth Day’s 40th anniversary last month got me thinking about all the wacky notions advocated by the longhaired, tie-dyed, wire-rimmed youthful hipsters of the early ’70s. (Yes, I was among them.) You know, those wild...
A drink to celebrate
The lore is that the sazerac is the oldest American cocktail. The story goes that in the mid-1800s, the owner of the Merchant Exchange Coffee House in New Orleans sold the place to start importing liquor. One of his imports was a cognac called Sazerac-de- Forge et ...
Big love for big Champagne
Wine writers love explaining why Champagne and other sparkling wines deserve a spot at the dinner table all year long...
Federal courts lose some power to regulate GMOs
When President Barack Obama signed Congress’s budget bill on March 26, a government shutdown was averted — but many citizens were outraged. A paragraph that could affect the regulation of genetically modified (GM) crops had slunk into the 240-page draft. Some members...
A homey brunch at Colterra
It was one of those chilly, grayish Saturdays that was a harbinger of upcoming winter. Too cold to go out on the bike and not enough snow on the ground to enjoy wintry sports, so why not go out for a leisurely breakfast? In this spirit, friend Justin joined me on an ...
Tracking down perfection
You have to appreciate the moxie of a restaurant that is open until it sells out. Especially when you set up shop at the end of an empty parking lot, triangulated by Buffalo Wild Wings, PetSmart and Super Target, in the perpetually under construction, unglamorous ...
Over a barrel
Sam Green of Boulder Beer would love to make sure everyone got to taste the brewery’s wine barrel-aged beers, Xena Warrior Princess and Patchouka Sunrise. He really would. But it’s just not that easy anymore. “Those were extremely popular when we released them at the...
The kale rebellion
For a vegetable dissident, this leafy green presents a challenge in winter I didn`t know it would be a mixed marriage. After all, we agree on most things. Same senses of humor, taste in music, politics. There’s just this vegetable thing. I love all of them. He ...
