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Thursday, October 14,2010

Local company sells gin-soaked raisins for arthritis pain

By Mitchell Byars
Wright has started a company based in Lafayette called DrunkenRaisins, which sells gin-soaked raisins online. Wright himself started using the raisins about four years ago when conventional methods werent working for the pain he was experiencing in his hands.
Thursday, October 7,2010

Local author takes vegan message to the masses

By Mitchell Byars
Just in time for the upcoming holiday season, the courses will focus on a festive menu of 15 different vegan fusion dishes, ranging from Brussels sprouts hollandaise to raw pecan pie.
Thursday, September 30,2010

Father-son team launches local jerky joint

By Mitchell Byars
Tom Henson and his son Tim are the owners of T T Jerky Outlet in the Table Mesa Shopping Center, and to say they carry a wide variety of jerky is a bit of an understatement. The walls are lined with every type of jerky you could ever imagine, as well as a few varieties you probably hadnt.
Thursday, September 23,2010

Sailing the seas of local cheese

By Heather May Koski
According to Samm White, co-owner of Cheese Importers in Longmont, four basic elements are needed to create cheese: a milk source, heat, a turning motion and rennet, a natural enzyme complex produced in any mammalian stomach to digest the mothers milk.
Thursday, September 16,2010

Eateries pitch in for firefighters, evacuees

By Katherine Creel
Chris Rosen, owner of downtown tea and coffee shop Atlas Purveyors, turned his caf%u9829nto an unofficial drop site for food and toiletries on the Wednesday after the fire. He got the message out via Twitter and has personally donated about $250 worth of goods including 100 pounds each of cat food, dog food and cat litter.
Thursday, September 9,2010

Prime time to pick a peck of peppers

By Debbie Arrington
How hot can they get? Pepper heat, or pungency, is measured in Scoville units, named for chemist Wilbur Scoville. In 1912, Scoville came up with a highly subjective testing method, diluting liquefied pepper juice or pure ground chili with sugar water.
Thursday, September 2,2010

Please pass the salt

By Julia Edwards
To some, the label reduced sodium may as well say reduced satisfaction. Those people are genetically geared to seek out that salty taste because it offsets other unpleasant flavors they find in food, according to a recent study by Pennsylvania State Universitys College of Agricultural Sciences.
Thursday, September 2,2010

Crafty solutions for parents of picky eaters

By Judy Hevrdejs
And its why she has talked and talked with parents about picky eaters (the worlds most ornery food critics), getting young kids in the kitchen and to the market, and her personal obsession with healthful eating that is, healthful food plus a healthy attitude about food.
Thursday, August 26,2010

Eat local this week

By Heather May Koski
According to Michael Brownlee, a Transition Colorado “catalyst,” one of the best ways to prepare communities for relocalization is to become more resilient to energy and food shocks by meeting essential needs locally through community farming and farmers’ markets.
Thursday, August 19,2010

Tracing Boulder's natural-food roots to a Carnival

By Roger Freed
The pedestrian mall on Pearl Street had yet to be built, the old Crossroads Mall was a small shopping center, and the summers big bicycle race was still called the Red Zinger Classic. Fields of grain grew beyond 30th Street.
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