Cuisine
Day trip Colorado on the road to tasteful stuff
Growing up in New England, we enjoyed what were called “day trips.” Really, these summer road excursions never lasted all day even if you...
Allen Ginsberg’s ‘beet poetry’ makes for an ideal late summer meal
Poet Allen Ginsberg was a presence in Boulder from the time I arrived in the late 1970s. Over the years I interviewed him several...
Try this week: Jumbo Seared Scallops @ North End at 4580
North Boulder has changed a lot in the last decade. But while new housing developments have popped up, and restaurants and businesses have come...
Hacking pie crust
Pie crust has a bad reputation. It may be tasty, but it’s impossible to make. Popular culture has transformed simple dough into this magical,...
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, ...
The beauty of butchery
With prices soaring, a butcher says forget the tenderloin and explore tastier, cheaper cuts
The history of a sandwich
A quick word of introduction: This will be, as are most things in life, a work in progress. But the goal of this column...
A simple question
On the far western edge of the Hill’s business district sits a building that used to be the Second Kitchen Food Co-op but has since been remodeled and made the home of Alpine Modern Café. It’s the restaurant of a company that publishes the Alpine Modern magazine, a...
Can-do attitude
The pandemic has forced many in the local food industry to adapt… quickly. Qin Liu and Rong Pan, the husband-and-wife founders of Ku Cha...
The greater pumpkin
Canned pumpkin is a lot like canned music.
Both require old-fashioned devices to use, and both products are highly over-processed. You need tinny loudspeakers and...
Beyond Taco Tuesday
If you enjoyed a chicken mole taco on National Taco Day, raise a glass of mezcal to an unlikely hero. If you’ve “discovered” or...