Behold: Food porn from John Hickenlooper's Inauguration party

Lori Midson

If it looks like a pig, talks like a pig and walks like a pig, then it must be Dan Maes.

Last night, John Hickenlooper, Denver's former mayor -- and now governor -- was surrounded by supporters hungry for change, which Hickenlooper vowed to deliver in a sixteen-minute speech earlier yesterday before the blow-out inauguration party at the Fillmore celebrating his rise to the top.

But Hick's proponents were hungry for something else, too -- namely barbecue (and all the requisite sides), which was provided in abundance by Occasions by Sandy, a local caterer that utilized a bumper crop of Colorado products to feed the mouths of the ravenous masses.

Herewith, what the new governor (and his adherents) feasted on at the Fillmore.

Lori Midson

Rocky Mountain appetizer display: Black bean hummus, ginger butternut squash puree and Aztec salsa -- or Dick Lamm, Roy Romer and Bill Owens, all former Colorado governors who were in attendance at last night's party -- as was Bill Ritter.

Lori Midson

Beef short rib empanadas that flew off the trays faster than John Hickenlooper talks -- which is fast, very fast.

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Chipotle and Caramelized Onion barbecue sauces, made locally in Cripple Creek by John Lynch, the chef of Cripple Creek Barbecue, whose "little company with a big conscience" bottles all-natural sauces with no high-fructose corn syrup, the liquid that makes up the majority of Tom Tancredo's brain.

Lori Midson

Maple-roasted sweet potato salad that was sweet, but not as sweet as Hick's speech.