Cuisine
Getting dizzy on Boulder’s newest donuts
I fed Mara donuts until she wept. Well, not really, although we certainly did a fine job of indulging ourselves at Dizzy’s Donuts, Boulder’s newest venue serving fresh takes on old-school baked goods. Donuts are big nowadays, akin to where cupcakes were a few years ...
Entertaining ideas for your Hanukkah celebration
Hanukkah lasts eight days, which is great news for kids who like presents and anyone who likes fried food...
St. Patrick’s Day gives new meaning to ‘going green’
If there was ever a day for revelry, it’s St. Patrick’s Day. Many people drink too much, eat too much, and often end up doing both those things too early in the day. On top of that, a pinch looms imminent for anyone not wearing green. Despite the day’s taxing ...
That’s a wrap
When I was a teenage prep cook, I created a dish that never made it onto the menu, even as a special, and even...
Tasting Colorado
Depending on your tastes, there is a food and drink festival event every weekend (and many weekdays, too) from now through September and beyond.
After...
‘The Versailles of chicken coops’
On the top of Flagstaff Mountain, 100 chickens are living their best lives.
A rooster, a handful of show chickens and dozens of egg-layers squawk...
Feeling out food: Why we eat the things we do
The food that we put into our body affects how we feel, and who doesn’t want to feel good? What we eat should nourish our bodies and harness our attitudes. From social pressures to evolutionary factors, the emerging field called the “psychology of eating” ...
Discover your roots
You wouldn’t know it now, but beets used to be bad. Several generations of Americans absolutely loathed beets.
“I always avoid eating them,” Barack Obama,...
A little pickle-ish
It takes guts to get through this life in good shape; in particular, guts full of hard-working helpful microbes.
The scientific evidence, like a...
Chinese, like mama used to make
For me, a visit to a Chinese restaurant is either an exercise in frustration or dewy-eyed nostalgia. I either feel that the chefs are butchering the favored dishes of my youth, or they should immediately be canonized for their uncanny ability to reproduce the ...
Try this week: Shamane’s Bake Shoppe, Via Perla, and more
Breakfast Sandwich
Shamane’s Bake Shoppe, 2825 Wilderness Place, Unit 800, Boulder, shamanesbakeshoppe.com
Shamane’s is one of those places everyone needs to know about but you selfishly...
Boulder Beer relaunches with new look and talk of a new...
Boulder Beer has some staying power. Despite management of Colorado’s first independent craft brewery switching hands last year, and despite the closure of its...

















