1995 flashback: Chefs, dads and sons find each other in the kitchen

By JOHN LEHNDORFF (This feature originally appeared in the Washington Post June 14, 1995) Ward Cleaver may have helped June with the dishes and burned a few burgers in the back yard, but you weren’t going to see him teaching Wally and the Beav how to whip up a souffle. For the most part, post-World … Continue reading →

My produce is so ugly the cashiers make me use self-checkout

By John Lehndorff (This originally appeared in the Boulder Weekly) We hold this truth to be self-evident: Americans today are wimps when it comes to dirt, especially on their vegetables and fruit. It seems we can’t stand our fashion models or our fruit without a little Photoshopping. Fruits and vegetables have gotten less and less … Continue reading →

State of the Plate: Fresh produce is taking an increasingly large share of the fast casual menu pie

It’s a value proposition and increasingly Americans value what they find at fast casual eateries. It’s not small potatoes. Continue reading →

Dawn of the Dough: Colorado’s Best Doughnut Shops

“Doh!” (pronounced “dough”) is a colloquial exclamation of illumination used by animated doughnut lover Homer Simpson Continue reading →