Community Table
Tiki comes to Boulder
Consider the piña colada. An iconic tropical treat composed of cream of coconut, rum, pineapple juice and pulverized ice, usually served with a fruit...
Frozen aloha
It sounds pulled out of a Dickens novel: A woman named Snow by her half-Canadian parents is raised in Hawaii, moves to the mainland...
The next biggest thing in alcohol is… seltzer?
You know, we should’ve seen this coming. There were whispers. Ghosts of future day-drinking excursions. Go back to the mini-fridge in the garage of...
Put a radish anywhere but salad
A radish sends mixed messages. They can look like something designed by Willy Wonka, but taste like mustard gas. In perhaps the ultimate bait-and-switch...
The pleasures of bitterness
When food isn’t salty enough, we add salt, or salty condiments like soy sauce, or salty foods like bacon. If we need sweetness, we...
Ginning up
Let’s start with some fun facts: 70 percent, at least, of the gin produced in the U.K. comes from Scotland. Three of the world’s...
To save the Earth, should we be shipping meat halfway around...
Sustainable does not always equal local.
That’s the next-level thinking going on at eateries across the country which are shipping in food, mostly meat, from...
A food perspective on the U.N.’s study on potential extinction of...
Another day, another devastating report about the impacts of humankind on the environment. After a three-year review of 15,000 research sources from 50 countries,...
Colorado, distilled
Today, you might peruse the aisles at your neighborhood liquor store and find dozens of bottles of craft spirits made right here in Boulder...
From Morocco, with bread… and lots of sweets
People pious and lay enjoy several food-centric holidays in the United States. On Thanksgiving, folks chow down on their families’ unique spins on traditional...
Less is more
Launching Fresh Thymes Eatery in Boulder was the obvious culmination of Christine Ruch’s professional life. She had been a private chef, a restaurant chef,...
Babettes’ Steve Scott on grain sourcing, rising rents and baking beautiful...
Steve Scott is not your typical artisanal baker. After nearly two decades baking in shops from California to Colorado, the former semi-pro cyclist opened...
