Almost 100 diners share this intimately spaced dining experience in groups of 12 per table. The Blind Café utilizes various venues to facilitate the optimum dark experience the café concept is built upon. When I was contacted by the Blind Café to come experience their concept and write about it I immediately said yes. It…
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Rhubarb Upside Down Cake
This vintage recipe for Rhubarb Upside Down Cake is easy to make either in a skillet or cake pan. Light, fluffy, sweet cake combined with tangy rhubarb is a favorite. Our Farmer’s Market has now been open for a few weeks and the parade of fresh things has begun again. Something I’ve appreciated about eating…
Homemade Pineapple-Infused Rum
Normally I would not be bitten by the ‘Summer Cocktail Bug’ until mid June when the weather warms and everything begins to ease into the lazy smolder of the summer season. It is only mid April I realize however summer seems upon us in Boulder. We’ve broken temperature records by hitting almost 90 degrees…
Great New Asian ‘Eats’ at Denver Zoo’s ‘Kamala Café’ and the new Toyota Elephant Passage Exhibit Opening
Let’s be frank. When one thinks of a zoo, the food is subordinate to all the other images that pop to mind. It usually even falls behind reflections of parking. I think it’s a stereotyped given that the food resides in the ‘Carnival’ family of cuisine, offering a substantial dip into the saturated fat pond…
Denver Zoo’s ‘School Garden to Zoo’ Program: Garden-to-Table for Animals (and kids too!)
I have been a gardener all my life. Regular readers will have heard my tale of sneaking out of bed as an elementary school child to steal legumes from the pantry to grow in pots in my room. I’ve always had a need to grow things which has only been amplified as an adult…
Dark Honey Cake with Salted Caramel Sauce and Whipped Cream
For anyone tethered to the school year calendar you will have experienced the time acceleration phenomenon between Spring Break and the school year end, as well as the missile fire of events targeting one’s calendar. December holds similar properties but this spans a bit over 2 months leaving a frenetic tone in every day. After…
Kissing Winter Goodbye: Homemade Pear-Infused Brandy
Normally this time of year would be a seasonal cusp, ebbing and flowing between a dwindling winter and promise of summer. This year however it has been unseasonably warm punctuated by a brief attempt at snow last week. As winter disappears quickly into our rear view mirror I had the idea to…
