I'll admit it: I'm stuck in the past, using a crockpot to cook meals. And I learned at chef Lynda Lacher's One Pot Cooking Class at Cherry Creek Whole Foods last night that I am guilty of many crockpot sins, the worst of which is not using a pressure cooker to cut my meal prep time down to minutes rather than hours.
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Sake, with its range of styles, light body and crisp finish, is ideal for food pairings as well as an easy thing to sip all night long. Plus, you can take down a lot of it and escape a hangover. Those factors should have long ago propelled it into a full-blown gastronomic trend, on every list alongside beer, wine and cocktails -- and not just in Japanese restaurants. So far, though, sake bombs at raucous sushi joints seem to be the only way the Japanese rice spirit has really caught on in this country.
Yesterday morning, sixty people huddled over rows of glasses in the new addition at The Mediterranean in Boulder, feverishly writing notes while sniffing and sipping. While they worked, a panel of master sommeliers highlighted comparisons and characteristics of wines from Burgundy, walking the group through tastes that compared village samples with premier cru, and pinot noir from Chambolle-Musigny with pinot noir from Gevrey-Chambertin.
At an extra $55 on top of the $60 you spend to get into the Great American Beer Festival, the additional cost for the ticket to the Farm-to-Table pavilion is a little hard to swallow. But each year we attend, we're more convinced that it's worth it: It's a meal ticket, a respite from the chaotic beer hall in the Colorado Convention Center and a chance to sample some geeky beers all at once.
Laura Shunk The spread from Fruition.
One of the best things about the Great American Beer Festival is all of the beer-centric dinners at local restaurants created to prep folks for the big weekend ahead. Last night, the all-vegetarian eatery WaterCourse Foods held just such a dinner; the amuse (pictured above) comprised a spicy local winter squash bisque with vegetable crudite and apple chutney, paired with Asher Brewing's Green Bullet IPA, which cut the spiciness of the bisque beautifully. Keep reading to see what else was on the menu:
Last night's Broncos-Raiders game was a disaster, sure, but the tailgating and barbecue still went full-steam ahead in the parking lots surrounding Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Photographer Brandon Marshall brings us back these photos from the meats (and beers) of Monday night.
Ready for some football. But first, food.
Turkey legs. Everyone was eating them over the weekend at A Taste of Colorado at Civic Center Park, where the meaty beasts are downright ubiquitous. On Monday, Taste officials released their cutely named "festimates" of food consumed at the festival, which you can see below, in addition to many more photos of people chomping on turkey legs.
J. Wohletz Chipotle provided free refreshments at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Feed Denver and the Denver Botanic Gardens came together last night to host a screening of Locavore, the first movie in a sustainable food film series aimed at raising awareness of growing local, buying local -- and eating local.
No, that's not a joke about the fatty substances for sale at this past weekend's Justice League of Street Food event at 29th and Huron. 
Hearses rolled up to the party on Saturday night, sans corpses, surely surprising everyone in attendance! Scary!
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Congrats to Marnie Ward, bartender at Avenue Grill and maker of the Tree Line, which nabbed first place in the 2011 Colorado Cocktail Contest last night. Below are a few highlights from the shindig, which took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. You can check out the full slide show here: Colorado Cocktail Project at MCA photos.
Photo: Mark Manger Bartender Marnie Ward puts the finishing touches on the Tree Line, her cocktail that won last night's competition. See more photos from the Colorado Cocktail contest.
