Cuisine

Aside from its distinctive flavor palettes, food has more abstract emotional appeals to the senses as well. Dessert tastes like joy. A giant chunk of meat roasted over an open flame tastes deeply, primally, invigorating, like surviving a plane crash or the thrill of ...

Being a pie contest judge sounds like a lot of fun, but you aren’t qualified just because you like pie a lot. You can’t...

After hearing the distressing news that NBC plans to revive the James Garner private-eye series The Rockford Files, I’ve been revisiting this ’70s classic. While I was a bit more than a tot when the show first aired, I did recall seeing several episodes during my ...

More than a decade of Deerhammer

Among the guys in my high school, there were two kinds of people. You had those who worshipped at the altar of The Who and the Rolling Stones, devotees of high-powered Brit guitar rock. I was one of those guys. On the other hand, there were the tie-dyed Deadheads. ...

While we Americans like to think we are leading the world toward a new golden age of brewing — and we are in some respects — there is still much we can learn from the Old World masters. For example: The Trappist monks have been brewing beer since the Middle Ages...

There is much to learn from movies. Take this exchange between Winston Churchill and King Edward VI in Darkest Hour concerning the Prime Minister’s...

Ever since the closing of the...

It’s been said that if beer didn’t already exist, no one would have invented it. That’s probably true; for all its simplicity, beer involves a series...

The Superfood Bowl Vitality Bowls, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, vitalitybowls.com This healthnut hotspot only opened a few weeks ago, but, if we’re being honest, we’ve already visited...

It’s hard to be unassuming so close to the Pearl Street Mall, but that’s just what Fuji Cafe and Bar is. The shop is clean and welllighted, but that’s about all you can say about the physical space of the restaurant. It’s small, with seating for maybe 20 people, and ...

For as much talk as there is about eating healthy, and the benefits that come to our bodies, minds and lives when we do...