Cuisine
A new wine frontier emerges
Finger Lakes’ wine pioneer Hermann Wiemer released his first wine 35 years ago. While his wines helped the New York region gain critical acclaim, he never curried much favor with local winemakers. And he had little patience for collegiality. In a 1985 interview with...
Tour de brew: Upslope Brewing Company — Flatiron Park
Snuggled between U.S. 36
and the multicolored pocket neighborhoods of North Boulder, Upslope Brewing
Company’s Lee Hill facility is just what you’d expect from a craft...
Helping those who help
When the pandemic hit and forced restaurants to shut down (and eventually open, but restrict diners), there were several programs that popped up aimed...
Drink of the Week: Westbound Coffee Porter @ Westbound and Down...
February is typically the time of year when we talk about stouts, but don’t sleep on stout’s predecessor, porter, when it comes to dark-beer...
The second sex of sushi chefs
Women’s hands are too warm, the argument goes, to handle the ingredients. They’d damage the raw fish. The perfume or makeup or lotion on women’s hands would ruin the salmon and tuna...
Tour de brew: U Turn BBQ
Food and beer, just like peanut butter and chocolate, taste great together. Pairing the two certainly isn’t rocket science but even the most dedicated...
What’s Manischewitz?
This week, Jewish people worldwide are celebrating Passover. Though the celebration continues for a whole week, the holiday’s most important meal — the Passover seder — generally falls on the first night. Filled with storytelling, ritual foods and lots of wine, ...
Drink of the Week: Left Hand Brewing Co.’s Nitro Imperial Stout
Left Hand is Boulder County’s purveyors of nitro beers, and its latest valentine, Galactic Cowboy Imperial Stout, is a winner. Jet black in the...
Then and now: Craft spaces
Craft beer has never been about just the beverage. It’s about history
and tradition, ingredients and flavors, and, maybe most importantly, it’s about
community.
For centuries,
communities of...
A sophisticated dish fit for a dinner party
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Ned Jawhar, 31, is a focused young man. We learn this when we cook alongside him at Cielo by Angela Hartnett in the Boca Raton Resort. He's invited us to watch him prepare Prosciutto-Wrapped Stuffed Chicken Legs Over Lyonnaise Cabbage With ...
Drink this: Green Mountain Beer Company’s Whiskey Barrel-Aged Rauch Bock
The 2020 version of the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is underway, which means if you haven’t picked up your GABF passport yet, you...
Goodbye to all of that
I’ve been writing the end for so long, but I never seem to get any closer to it.
If you’ve been following this column for...













