Cuisine
Know your brew: Crystal Springs Brewing Company’s Naughty Marilyn
A decade ago, Tom and Kristy Horst started Crystal Springs Brewing Company in their Sunshine Canyon garage on a 20-gallon system. Today they operate...
Life’s a peach
It’s peach season in Colorado. Walk into your neighborhood grocery store, stroll the lanes of your nearest Boulder County Farmers Market or peruse the...
Despite pandemic, more craft breweries are operating now than ever
It wasn’t looking good for craft breweries this time last year. On-site and draught sales were way down, and half of breweries indicated in...
Yuletide eatings
I’ve lived in locales that nobody would visit except my Mom and my best friend. Boulder is not like that. If you’ve lived here...
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 ...
Same old seeds?
While other segments of the local food industry suffered immensely from the pandemic in the last year, farmers, by and large, made out OK....
Tossa Pizza strikes a balance
For some odd reason, when I first heard of Boulder’s new eatery, Tossa Pizza, my mind swiftly visualized Luigi Risotto reciting this restaurant’s name in a comical Italian accent...
Putting on condiments
As a former dining critic, I don’t like to admit that there is one restaurant I like to visit for the ketchup. I dine...
The pickling revolution takes Boulder
You wouldn’t think things stuffed in jars and steeped in salt, brine, spices or even their own fermented juices could be beautiful. But all lined up, pickles present a range of unique natural colors. There’s something enchanting about tidy jars all in row holding ...
Hacking the new apple
I grew up right next door to Johnny Appleseed.
Admittedly it was several hundred years apart, but my Massachusetts hometown, Fitchburg, was right next to...
Tour de brew: 300 Suns Brewing
For years I worked a tasting counter at a winery in Los Angeles. It was a fairly sizable operation with a strong output, and...
The implausible burger
There was a Whopper to the left of me and an Impossible Whopper to the right as I sat at a local Burger King...













