Cuisine

Selling Boulder’s taste buds

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Dear Dale’s Pale Ale,  I’m breaking up with you! I know we’ve been in “like” for years. You were always my go-to, easy-to-recommend local brew.  Then I...

The beauty of butchery

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With prices soaring, a butcher says forget the tenderloin and explore tastier, cheaper cuts

The first to 40

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“What are these hippies doing up here in Boulder?” Randolph Ware, co-founder of Boulder Brewing Company, remembers Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) inspector Lou...

Heading to the kitchen

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Sheila Lucero did not grow up dreaming of being an executive chef. Her goal was not to oversee the food at five restaurants in...

Born to bake

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This éclair is the stuff of dreams, a chewy cream-puff expanse crammed with thick, sweet whipped cream and glazed thickly with dark chocolate. So...

A slice of Texas in Boulder

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For a place that’s only been open for eight months, The Ghost BBQ and Spirits has more stories than some places that have been...

The joy of ugly produce

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We hold this truth to be self-evident: Americans today are wimps when it comes to dirt, especially on their vegetables and fruit. It seems...

Know your brew: German-style heller bock and maibock

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Much like with the seminal Oktoberfest brew, märzen, there is a bit of ceremony that goes along with ushering in maibock drinking season. The...

Sibling rivalry

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Standing at his booth handing out tasty samples, a vendor at the Longmont Farmers Market leans forward and confides conspiratorially: “Actually, Longmont is a better...

Hand pie high five

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Something makes us love almost anything wrapped in dough across the globe, whether they are called samosas, pierogi, fried pies, turnovers, calzones, tiropita, bao,...

Off the beat-en path

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Coffee houses in the 1950s and ’60s didn’t resemble the ones that exist today. People’s faces weren’t hidden behind laptops and you probably couldn’t order a $5 latte. Artists, writers and free-thinkers of the “beat generation” (a term coined by Jack Kerouac, author ...

The Cure for retirement

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Jim Smailer is a true restaurant legend. As the longest-serving chef in recent Boulder history, he cooked for an unheard-of four decades at the...