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Penzey’s Now Open on Pearl

New spice store on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall Today is the first full day for the new Penzey’s Spices retail store in Boulder. (It opened for a couple of hours yesterday afternoon because they were ready, as Kim told me when I stopped by this morning.) It is located on the Pearl Street Mall,, just east of [...]

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Torch Passes at Boulder Wine Merchant

Torch Passes at Boulder Wine Merchant

Two Master Somms sell 30-year-old store to a third There are currently only 105 Master Sommeliers in North America (90 men, 15 women) and a mere 170 such wine professionals worldwide who have earned that title from the Court of of Master Sommeliers since 1973. Two of them Wayne Belding (who passed the rigorous exam in 1990) and Sally [...]

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Downtown Boise Food and Drink Finds

Historic candy factory, Basque foodstore and distillery in the heart of Idaho’s capital city BoDo (Boise Downtown) is the Idaho capital city’s heir to Manhattan’s SoHo, Denver’s LoDo and San Francisco’s SoMa — in short, the lively, interesting and renascant center of the city. The domed state capitol anchors it to the north. Boise Centre, [...]

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Pasta with Smoked Salmon

Pasta with Smoked Salmon

Cobbled-together recipe produces fast, fine supper dish I have an ancient book that might have been my late mother’s. Called Cooking Without Recipes, it was written by Helen Worth, director of  Charlotteville, Virginia’s eponymous Helen Worth Cooking School. By now, I could probably write a lot of it! Over the years, I have become a mix-and-match [...]

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Denverite Stars in Food Show Debuting April 24

Denverite Stars in Food Show Debuting April 24

Food Network spins off The Cooking Channel, making way for new talent on the original On May 31, The Food Network is begetting The Cooking Channel. The new channel will replace the Fine Living Network and will feature some familiar food faces, including Emeril “Kick It Up a Notch” Lagasse, the terminally perky Rachael Ray and [...]

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