Nibbles
This must be the place
Wanted: Young, energetic food, beverage and music entrepreneurs to revive a one-of-a-kind, historic Boulder County venue. The location virtually oozes rustic, mountain town charm...
Love and lunch
Sipping an Americano at a Boulder cafe, I watched a 30-something woman swiping right rapidly though potential mates on a dating app. This parade...
Facing the flesh
Every ham you bake and every breakfast link you sizzle starts out exactly the same way with a hog dying and its carcass being...
Dear Santa
You have a busy few weeks ahead what with Solstice/Yule (12/22), Hanukkah (12/22), Festivus (12/23), Boxing Day (12/26) and Kwanzaa (12/26) plus Christmas and...
Grain bowl game
I can’t stand quinoa.
I know that’s heresy in Boulder County, where quinoa is more common on menus than cheeseburgers.
I loathe quinoa’s squishy, rubbery texture, its...
Lessons learned in Mom’s kitchen
Even now I can transport immediately to Mom’s kitchen and seat myself against the pantry closet and watch her make stuffed cabbage, or Portuguese...
Much to take in and out of the kitchen at Flatirons...
There is a scene in my favorite food movie, Big Night, set in a failing Italian eatery in New Jersey. The brothers who own...
Getting paid to eat
Food writing was not a serious journalism job. When I started working for local publications in the late 1970s in Colorado, stories about dining,...
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...
Appetite for kindness
I was sitting at a busy Boulder restaurant with a bunch of folks, but I might as well have been eating alone. Everyone at...
Finger-lickin’ bucket list
Tulips are popping their lips above the dirt in Boulder. Birds are starting to nest. It’s still winter so those may be signs of...
Pantry Treasure
Late on a March evening — Friday the 13th — I went shopping at a Louisville supermarket for some necessities to make it through...
