Denver Harvest Week Events
GrowHaus is the setting for sustainable meals & fun events. Denver Harvest Week (five days, actually) is back from Tuesday, September 23 through Saturday, September 27, with more than thirty of...
View ArticleTaste Test Invite Declined – I Already Buy the Product
NestFresh eggs are always in my fridge. This morning, a public relations representative sent me the following E-mail: “I was hoping you might be interested in a little experiment that I was thinking of...
View ArticleCochon 555 Showcases Heritage Pigs
Annual pork-fest and competition returns to Denver. Cochon 555 is back in Denver on Friday to Sunday, March 6-8. This three-day feast and culinary competition celebrates family farms, heritage breed...
View ArticleNew Mexico Ranch Earns Animal Welfare Certification
People become vegetarians for a variety of reasons, including concerns about the quality of life of animals before they are slaughtered. It comes as good news that the L6 Cattle Ranches in Corona, New...
View ArticleBlackbelly is Hosea Rosenberg’s Latest Hit
Boulder-based “Top Chef” champ’s restaurant also a winner. Hosea Rosenberg, the Taos-bred and Boulder-based chef who won Season 5 of Bravo TV’s “Top Chef,” took his time parlaying his renown and his...
View Article‘The Shed’ Launches Website to Support Boulder Food Resources
Local foodshed becomes reality & gains momentum with online presence. A bit over a year ago, I wrote a post called “Foodshift to Foodsheds” — a foodshed being defined as a small geographic area...
View ArticleSustainable, Local Farming Focus of Aspen Lecture
Noted ag author coming to Aspen to give free lecture. I am a great admirer of author Michael Pollan, who brilliantly deciphers what is wrong and what is right on the American food scene. Joel Salatin...
View ArticleFab Fundraiser for Flatirons Food Film Fest
Wine, foodies & song in Boulder. Three art forms were showcased at yesterday evening’s Flatirons Food Film Festival fundraiser: cinematic arts, musical arts and, of course, culinary arts. The event...
View ArticleHarvest Market at Union Station
Boulder Farmers’ Market organizes 1-day market in Denver. Denver’s Union Station hosts a Harvest Market this Saturday, October 10 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wynkoop Plaza. Expect market 10 Colorado...
View ArticleBoulder Farmers’ Markets to Run One at Union Station
Wynkoop Plaza a natural location for local food market. There is a happy cross-fertilization between the Denver and Boulder food scenes. Boulder-born Zoe Mama and The Kitchen have taken root in...
View ArticleCulinary Odyssey in RiNo
Foods plain & fancy in River North. A few days ago, my friend Julia Joun and I took ourselves on our own food tour in River North (RiNo), an emerging neighborhood in Denver. Her foodie...
View ArticleColorado Proud Dinner Coming in Centennial
South suburban ViewHouse hosts feast of in-state products. If I posted news of every wine-pairing dinner and fundraising feast in Colorado, I’d write about nothing else and (I probably wouldn’t have...
View ArticleFocus on Food This Election Year
Getting food issues off the back burner. Even though First Lady Michelle Obama has made valiant efforts to bring to public and media attention on fresh and healthy food, such issues as food deserts,...
View ArticleHarvest Week Dinners Set
Fab food at annual Colorado food showcase and fundraiser. Harvest Week is coming up next month at GrowHaus, a fantastic community resource in an underserved northeast Denver neighborhood. Its mantra...
View ArticleCulinary Treasure in Old Town Erie
24 Carrot Bistro serves great cocktails & sublime food. Until last night, I’d only eaten one dinner in Erie — years ago at my friend Kuvy Ax’s birthday dinner at a now-defunct Mexican restaurant....
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