Cuisine

Real ramen rocks at Bento Zanmai

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Rmen gets a bad rap in the United States, especially since most of us are only familiar with the instant dime-a-pack variety, weighted down with a surplus of salt and MSG. This is too bad, as authentic ramen has about as much resemblance to the starving student ...

That’s a great idea, Charlie

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The year: 1981. The protagonist: Charlie Papazian, America’s homebrewing advocate. The setting: the Great British Beer Festival in England. “In those days, the closest thing to...

Making the familiar seem new

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Opened earlier this year, Louisville’s Bistro 4 provides an unexpectedly elegant venue to enjoy a thoughtfully prepared breakfast or lunch. Tucked away in a strip mall a waffle’s throw from the local multiplex, this eatery’s ambience easily rises above its prosaic ...

Resilient

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Bob Baile has a lot of love to spread around. “I gotta tell you how great the city has been to us,” he says. When...

The perfect pub food

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Pub food is meant to be a hearty complement to a night of drinking — fried, full of cheese, drenched in buffalo sauce, dunked...

Boom or bust?

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If you were in a Colorado grocery store over the last few weeks, you likely saw one of two odd things: rows of empty...

Delivered by a robot, Rakken Ramen is a fully animated meal

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Isaac Asimov’s second rIle of robotics in the novel I, Robot states that “a robot shall obey any instruction given to it by a...

Around the world in 800 dishes

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Roy and Kat Brown had an interesting honeymoon. Instead of lounging on some exotic beach or viewing fine art in Europe’s storied museums, the...

Fruitful

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The previous two years of wine production in Colorado were poor. There was some doubt many of the vineyards and farms in Colorado’s high country, along the Colorado River, would recover this year. However, this year brought optimal growing weather for nearly all of ...

Mussels don’t stick around in acidic ocean water

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Cookie tray in hand and lifejacket around chest, Laura Newcomb looks more like a confused baker than a marine biologist. But the University of Washington researcher is dressed for work...

From Colorado to the world

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Lafayette’s Westbound & Down Mill is open for business

Otis and a beer

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Poor Otis. Otis is the cartoon pig mascot of Nederland’s Wild Mountain Smokehouse & Brewery, seemingly oblivious to his likely fate as a barbecued entrée here. The sign above the front door shows him quizzically contemplating a spilled mug of beer. But more ...