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Food Network\'s "Worst Cooks" is Food Network\'s Worst Idea
Why would anyone want to watch a program about the country's alleged worst cooks?Once upon a time, I enjoyed the Food Network. Once upon a time, most of the Food Network's programs were about food and cooking. In fact, once upon a time, I&...
Jason Sheehan Leaving \'Westword\'
Denver alternative weekly's restaurant critic to join Seattle alternative weeklyJason Sheehan has been Westword's award-winning restaurant critic for eight years, and I've read his snarky, sometimes profane and always insightful reviews and...
Local Restaurants in Media Spotlight
Obama White House Hosting "Iron Chef"
White House chef Cristeta Comerford to compete with seasoned TV pros In the photo above, flanking Mrs. Obama are Flay, Comerford and "Iron Chef America" host Alton Brown shown on the left of the First Lady; and Batali in bright orange Crocs (from Niw...
A Simple Supper
Main course, salad and dessert -- home-cooked, from scratch and ready in minutesIn this age of combative cooking on the Food Network and "cultural" programs on the Travel Channel that involve the brave host eating what most Americans consider inedibl...
Post Praises Front-of-the-House Pros
Those who meet, greet and make the restaurant experience seamless are lauded in front-page featureAt my first glance at the lead photo of the food section of today's Denver Post over the banner headline, "Front of the House," I thought it was of Bobb...
NYTimes Examines Reality TV
"Hell's Kitchen" is the lead and "Top Chef" is part of paper's feature on unreal reality TV"TV Contestants: Tired, Tipsy and Pushed to the Brink" in today's New York Times is resonating with me, because I'm at the sixth annual Steamboat Wine Festival...
Denver Magazine to Select Local Chef of the Year
Local magazine spotlights talents in the kitchen and behind the barThe editors of Denver Magazine surely know the recipients of its new “Denver Chef of the Year” award and related honors, because they are being announced in the October issue, whi...
Celebration & Sadness at Frasca
Mackinnon-Patterson did himself proud but was knocked out of "Top Chef Masters"Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson knew what the outcome of has episode of "Top Chef Masters" that aired last night, but he still threw a viewing party at Frasca Food and Wine fo...
Boulder Chef on "Top Chef Masters" Tomorrow, 7/15/09
Frasca's Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson competes on popular televised cook-offBravo TV's "Top Chef" has five seasons behind it, and the only one I watched from the first to the last was Season 5. It started with two Boulder chefs, Melissa Harrison and H...
Denver Artist Draws Food & Blogs It
Thanks to blogger Denveater for alerting me to Riki's Phood Blog, written but mostly drawn by a talented young Denver artist and freelance cartoonist named Riki Takaoka. He posted the drawing of a plate of mussels (right) on his blog last month, and ...
Strings Honors Lonely Moms on Mothers Day
Post columnist salutes retaurateur Noel Cunningham's Mothers Day traditionChefs have come and chefs have gone. Competitors have opened and closed since 1986 when he established Strings, owner Noel Cunningham has long been a generous restaurateur. In ...
Boulder's Kitchens On Fire Fundraiser & Other Kitchens
Kitchen inspiration can be sophisticated or simple; it's the food that countsKitchens On Fire, the 11th annual fundraiser for Boulder's Dairy Center for the Arts, will take place Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 16. The opportunity to look at and admi...
Boulder Weekly's Best of Boulder List
Alternative weekly's readers and editors select of many "bests" including restaurantsA supplement in the current Boulder Weekly features the always-anticipated Best of Boulder list. On the cover is Boulder's own Top Chef winner, Hosea Rosenberg. The ...
Oh No! I HAVE TO Watch a "Top Chef" Spin-Off
Reality TV series spawns; Boulder chef to appear. Crikey!My least favorite television genre is reality TV -- contrived situations that are filmed and edited for maximum drama and emotion, and minimum "real reality."I watched "Top Chef" this past seas...
Food & Wine's Best New Chefs 2009 Announced
Coast-to-coast chefs on latest list, but none in ColoradoAfter much speculation and Twitter clues dropped by Food & Wine editor-in-chief Dana Cowin, the magazine's Ten Best New Chefs of 2009 were announced in New York yesterday. The ten were actu...
"Man v. Food" Denver Episode Tonight
Pig-out program shot in Denver will be telecast this evening"Man v. Food," a food-oriented travel program (or travel-oriented food program) devoted to gluttony, visits Denver in tonight's telecast on The Travel Channel at 8:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight ...
Best of Boulder Balloting Starts
Now is the time to cast your votes for your favorite Boulder eating places, drinking places, food purveyors for the Boulder Weekly's annual Best of Boulder selections. Pick up copy of the paper or vote online by clicking here....
At Home with "Bottle Shock"
A bottle of wine paired well with movie about wine Thanks to the magic of on-demand movies, my husband and I finally watched "Bottle Shock," the 2008 film depicting the 1976 blind tasting in Paris in which American wines for the first time bested Fre...
"Top Chef" News Flash
Boulder's Hosea Rosenberg made it through another round and is now among the last three....
Boulder Chef Makes It Through Another "Top Chef" Round
Episode 10 whittles "chef-testant" field from seven to sixHosea Rosenberg, executive chef at Jax Fish House in Boulder, has made it through another round of competitive cooking on "Top Chef," the Bravo reality culinary hit and unsubtle product placem...
