Cuisine
Greenhouse gas
About the only thing Boulderites like to flaunt as much as the city’s plethora of microbreweries is its interest in sustainability. Too bad then that the brewing process creates a butt-ton of carbon dioxide (approximately 100 tons for a 10,000 barrel-ayear brewery), ...
Longmont Restaurant Week returns with unique events, dining specials
Longmont Restaurant Week exceeded expectations when it launched last year. Folks at the Longmont Chamber of Commerce, including a handful of motivated Longmont restaurateurs,...
Apple pie, baseball and tacos
I love tacos. I love their simplicity. They are the perfect street food: easy to prepare, filling, messy, delicious.
This is no radical statement. It’s pretty...
Tour de brew: Very Nice Brewing Co.
A visit to a brewery can range anywhere from magnificent to abysmal with most falling somewhere in between. The average skews closer to the positive...
Restaurant week, at home
Of course restaurants have taken it on the chin during the pandemic. But the call to support them has been so full-throated, in part,...
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, ...
Know your brew: Vienna lager
Maybe it’s the
popularity of German culture, the appeal of lederhosen and dirndls, or the
allure of drinking under massive tents, but Oktoberfest’s signature beer,
märzen, is...
Try this week: Mici Handcrafted Italian, Community, and more
Penne Cortonese
Mici Handcrafted Italian, 535 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, miciitalian.com
Lafayette’s outpost of Mici Handcrafted Italian serves a lineup of pizza, pasta, salads, calzones...
Red Rock Coffeehouse checks a lot of boxes
While recently promoting her latest book, Patti Smith detoured and talked about her love of cafes, an affinity that started in the ’60s.
“Back then,...
Father-son team launches local jerky joint
If you are like most people, you buy your jerky while strolling down the supermarket aisles or at a gas station stop on a road trip. It’s something you see at the checkout stand and buy on a hungry whim to gnaw on, but it’s never something you go out of your way to...
Profiles in brew: Gravity Brewing and Gastronauts
No business goes it alone. It takes a village, and few area breweries
illustrate that point quite like Louisville’s first tap house: Gravity Brewing
— which...
The only grocery store in Lyons is doing well, and now...
Main Street in Lyons is empty. Amid stay-at-home orders, people aren’t going to the nature park or stopping in for a long brunch. They’re...