Telluride: Hotel Madeline’s Off-Season Cooking Classes
Top Telluride chef Jake Linzinmeir’s classes at the new Hotel Madeline I haven’t been to Telluride in more than two years, and I can’t quite visualize where in Mountain Village the new Hotel Madeline is, but I am intrigued when the chef at new luxury property doesn’t take off for Mexico in the shoulder season [...]
Denver Restaurant Week Starts This Evening
Fourteen days of great food at greatly reduced pricesTonight is the first night of Denver Restaurant Week, which runs through March 11. A record 301 restaurants have signed on this year and are offering prix fixe, three-course dinners for $52.80 for two or $26.40 per person. I’ve been told that Denver’s is the largest such [...]
Joan Brett, Culinary School Founder, Honored with Pacesetter Award
CSR’s new owner has wiped Joan Brett from the school’s website, and the local paper messes up too — but the honor is for real In my book Culinary Colorado, published in 2003, I wrote of the Cooking School of the Rockies, “Founded in 1991, this South Boulder school is all things to all cooks: a few hours of [...]
Californian’s Cooking School in Tuscany
Cooking school in Tuscany geared to Americans seeking culinary authenticity The other day I wrote about my persnickety issues with Brio Tuscan Grille, an Ohio-based restaurant chain that promotes an image of Tuscany but is Tuscan mostly in name. Like many other Italian-style restaurants in this country, Brio serves food whose roots may be pan-Italian and whose dishes toned down suit to middle American tastes. The food is better [...]
Las Vegas Pastry Design School a Sure Bet
World champion pastry chef offers hands-on classes and pastry kitchen fun If I were going to Las Vegas, instead of leaving money on the table or in what used to be called a one-armed bandit, I would spend my dough on dough. I would try to improve my pastry skills in a hands-on class at the School [...]
Affordable Chef-Taught Holiday Cooking Classes
Michael DeBoer demystifies cooking for a Thanksgiving or Christmas crowd Thanksgiving was the first holiday meal that I took over from my mother after I moved into my first New York apartment. That was a lifetime ago, and I’ve hosted Thanksgiving dinners, my favorite holiday, every year since. Now, in Boulder, we are usually 12 to 14 people, but as [...]
Culinary School of the Rockies Sold to Illinois Firm
Boulder cooking school promises business as usual — and a future as an Escoffier school The Daily Camera headline above the fold on page 1 reads, “Culinary School of the Rockies sold to Ill. firm.” The story is the final chapter on Joan Brett’s ownership of what she started as the Cooking School of the [...]
