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Challenging Elements: Mead

May 20, 2011 Like 0 Brandy Simmons

Happy Noodle’s Executive Chef Sam Proia taught us this month that the mantra “save bees, drink mead” extends even to brining scallops in the age-old booze.

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Picked in our Best of the West as showing stellar small town pride, the Erie Town Fair is a favorite for families living east of 287. And on May 21, the East County community will once again celebrate with hot-air…

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Feeling Out of Sorts?

March 17, 2011 Like 0 James Burrus

We owe a great debt to the printing arts, and I don’t mean what gets sprayed onto precisely sized sheets of bleached dead trees as it lurches its way out of that plastic box on your desk when you click…

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Move Over, Cupcake

March 17, 2011 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

“If I had one trend—one trend—of the year that I could predict, that’s why it’s in the No. 1 position, this would be the trend for pie,” Andrew Freeman of Andrew Freeman & Co. said.

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Challenging Elements: Grapefruit

March 17, 2011 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

As a chef, there’s nothing you can eliminate from your repertoire,” said Edmund Vogel, chef at Zucca in Louisville.

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Eatery Update: February 2011

February 8, 2011 Like 0 John Lehndorff

OPEN, CLOSED & COMING SOON Wine & Cheese Winebar and Restaurant opened at 14697 Delaware St. in Westminster.

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Bring on the Bubbly

January 7, 2011 Like 1 Lacy Boggs

If there’s one question as important as who you’re going to kiss at midnight on New Year’s Eve, it’s where’s the Champagne? What to buy, what to order, what to drink—it’s enough to make any partygoer’s head spin. Not to…

Restaurant Reviews

Pure & Simple

October 18, 2010 Like 2 Lacy Boggs

Sometimes fine food can begin to border on the pretentious, with too many flavors, too much fuss that doesn’t allow the food to stand for itself. Sometimes, all one wants is the sort of food available at Gindi Café in…

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Can-Do Spirit

September 20, 2010 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Any recipe that starts with “Peal and chop two bushels of tomatoes” is not going to be high on my to-try list. Neither is anything that has warnings about botulism and other nasties at the end. I don’t have a…

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Chile Power

September 20, 2010 Like 0 John Lehndorff

I’m old enough now that I can admit that I was a virgin when I moved to Colorado. I’d never even seen a green chile (or jalapeno pepper) when I moved to Colorado. Growing up in Massachusetts in the 1960s,…