Cuisine
Try this week: Grapefruit and fennel dessert, Spicy Frenchman and more
Grapefruit and Fennel
Emmerson, 1600 Pearl St., Suite 100, Boulder, emmersonrestaurant.com
This week, Michelin released its always anticipated annual ranking of New York restaurants. Among the five...
Discover your roots
You wouldn’t know it now, but beets used to be bad. Several generations of Americans absolutely loathed beets.
“I always avoid eating them,” Barack Obama,...
I’m a Garfinkel, you’re a Garfinkel
There are 10 of us total. Front of house and back,” says Dan Garfinkel, co-collaborator of Gunbarrel’s Finkel & Garf Brewing Company. He’s the...
New in brew: A stout worth saving
Most savvy beer drinkers will tell you the same thing: The fresher the better. While true for the vast majority of American lagers and...
Quest for queso
Chile con queso — we just call it “queso” — may be the perfect global comfort food. Everybody gets partial credit for the comforting...
Ollin Farms’ Mark Guttridge: Boulder County ag can save the planet
Now is an important time in agriculture. It’s been said, perhaps best by renowned food writer Mark Bittman, that to care about food now...
Speaker for the dead
Yes, Colorado may be the state of craft beer but when one thinks of Colorado breweries, one towers over the rest like a snowcapped...
Try this week: Sonoma hash, shepherd’s pie and more
Sonoma Hash
Olive and Finch, 1552 E. 17th Ave., Denver, oliveandfincheatery.com
Sunday mornings are meant for taking it easy (you’re welcome for that earworm). Olive and...
Running down a dream
It’s all about you guys!” Great American Beer Festival director Nancy Johnson yelled to the brewers packed into the Denver Convention Center’s Mile High...
Try this week: Jalapeno chorizo hush puppies, bison short ribs and...
Jalapeno Chorizo Hushpuppies
Four Friends Kitchen, 2893 Roslyn St., Denver, fourfriendskitchen.com
A great hush puppy is two crispy-on-the-outside, moist-on-the-inside bites of comfort — any bigger than two...
Chef Kyle Mendenhall on music and cooking
Kyle Mendenhall — the chef who helped launched The Kitchen’s national enterprise, and whose new restaurant, Arcana, was recently billed by the New York...
When Froyo met EVOO
For the grand prize of $1 million, can you properly pronounce and list the ingredients in bibimbap and sriracha and describe what “EVOO” and...