In his latest blog Jonathan Lekstutis discusses the high prices at restaurants in Aspen.
Everyone's favorite Conservative takes his wife to Chef Dava Parr's Fresh & Wyld Bed and Breakfast and lives to write about it. "At six, servers brought out several appetizers, including roasted pumpkin seeds, sautéed eggplant with garlic and parsely, and my favorite, samosas made with curried pumkin,
chèvre chaud, and whole wheat phyllo dough. When I was a University of London student back in the early 80s, I would save my food money during the week and head into the Pakistani neighborhoods North of Euston Station for a meal of samosas. Ordinarily, samosas are made of potatoes, peas, onions, and paneer, but these were made of pumpkin and goat cheese. I wouldn’t have thought you could make a pumpkin work in samosas, but Dava did it..." Read the rest. It's a hoot.
Next summer I'm probably going to turn the backyard into a vegetable garden," writes Post blogger Mitch Mulhall in comment #2, "not because of some irrational devotion to some Eat Local movement, but because I love home grown tomatoes and Eruca sativa, and the kids don't play on the swing set anymore. Besides, my seven-year-olds still fall for the "Pull my finger" gag because I'm quick to scold the dog."
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I live and work in Glenwood Springs, and like most men my age I'm looking for a way to drop a few pounds that doesn't involve a six mile run out to Noname and back. So I read weekly emails from Chef Church's Garnish Restaurant, and the only thing that bothers me more than the fact that I don't eat anything like the healthy cuisine he serves, I sometimes serve Eggo waffles to my kids before school.
Despite this embarrassing admission, I relish seeing Chef Church's weekly menus in my in-box, if only because rare occasions, Chef Church inspires me to cook.
Please--nobody tell my wife...
Cheers,
April 13th, 2008
This week at
Garnish Cafe we will be featuring a few different lunch specials which are listed below.
Continue Reading April 7th, 2008
Following in the footsteps of some of Aspen's other institutions, the Crystal Palace Dinner Theater is on its last performance. The creation of The Palace harkens back to 1957 and has been entertaining Aspen locals and visitors alike ever since.
Despite the many conspiracy theories that the Crystal Palace is being forced to close it’s doors do to combined pressure from the Vatican, Billary, and “W”, its just not so. Mead Metcalf, Owner, Operator, and Performer has decided it is time to retire, and with that, so goes the Palace. Mead is set to relocate to a small mountain town that is a little more like Aspen in the 50’s. It is understandable but also a bit sad to see him and the Palace move on. It has been over 50 years after all.
The Crystal Palace’s official “Last Show Ever” is set for April 12th 2008. That show and April 11th, the night before, are already sold out with seats for the other remaining nights filling up fast. So this is it folks, your last chance to enjoy the Crystal Palace.
If you’ve seen the show before you know what your missing, if you haven’t seen the show it is a must. We at EatAspen have had the privilege to attend for the last several seasons and have always enjoyed it, the old and the new. Definitely a fine dessert after a fine meal.
6:45 pm seating Mon.-Sat.
Call 970-925-1455 for reservations
EatAspen.com
April 3rd, 2008
Last summer I started receiving a CSA (community supported agriculture) box from Paonia. I had never even heard of this before I became involved. You pay the farmers up front for future produce so they have money to grow the food. I paid for ten weeks of locally grown food and received whatever was abundant and in season. I received vegetables I had never eaten, or prepared, and a few I even had to look up their name! Always making the box of produce a little surprise.
Continue Reading March 24th, 2008
We had entered the “practice” portion of the “Women’s Health Conference: From Theory To Practice”—and that meant a group of us was walking in the woods to the Rio Grande Trail and thence into Clark’s Market in Aspen with Dr. Bob Vogel, the University of Maryland professor of medicine who doubles as chief of medicine for the Pritikin Longevity Center and Pritikin Research Foundation.
The idea of the conference, sponsored by the forward-thinking Aspen Center for Integral Health (acih.org) was to dig down deep into what goes down in the real world. Thus: the walk, a moveable lecture about what remains for us to feast upon in the healthiest of worlds.
Continue Reading March 24th, 2008
I’m sure there are a lot of skiers that are sick of the Nature Valley Granola Bars that the Aspen Skiing Company Ambassadors hand out. I’m still happy to get one and it usually helps stave off lunch so I can ski a little longer. Although, if I forget about it in my pocket, it does degrade run after run until it is reduced to crumbs. I do believe the ambassadors could hand out more than one, considering they are only single deck granola bars and I know they will end up with a stockpile of leftovers in the warehouse at the end of the season.
I can’t help to reminisce about the Skico treats of the recent past.
Continue Reading March 12th, 2008
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--Chef Ryan Hardy and Montagna Restaurant here cleaned up when it came to the announcement of semifinalists for the prestigious James Beard Foundation awards.
Hardy was nominated for best chef in the Southwest, while sommelier Richard Betts in the category of wine and spirits professional. Montagna in The Little Nell here in Aspen also received a nomination for outstanding service.
Chef Mark Fischer from six89 on Main Street in Carbondale will vie with Hardy for best chef in the Southwest, with finalists in all categories to be annoucned March 24, 2008.
Continue Reading March 6th, 2008
There’s no need to speculate on just how continued mass immigration will shape Colorado’s and America’s future; we only need look to the immigration laboratory, California, to get the answers.
In 1970, California had a population of about 20 million. It is now a huge 38 million, larger than most countries of the world’s, and it will be a gargantuan 62 million by 2050—if the U. S. government insists on forcing mass immigration onto an already overpopulated America. Virtually 100 percent of California’s explosive growth is a result of immigration, legal and illegal.
Continue Reading January 15th, 2008
Chef Clark Church does it again! That's right, Garnish cafe won the title again this year with Church's chowder. Way to go Clark!
Continue Reading January 11th, 2008
Hello Good People,
I am making the journey over the hill this Thursday, the 10th if any one would like to re-up on some local food. We are temporarily out of Wild Alaskan Salmon. I exhausted that source and am looking for another sustainable fisher to work with. I sold out of cheese as well over the holiday and haven't had opportunity to replenish that stock yet. I do have plenty of juice, jam, beef, buffalo, elk, lamb, granola, Leroux Creek Spa Skin care and cookbooks for offer.
Continue Reading January 6th, 2008
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