Colorado restaurant companies have gone above and beyond the call to support the firefighters and victims of the ongoing wild fires: Pizza Marketplace includes a detailed list of what they are doing and how you can help:
COLORADO RESTAURANTS
Restaurant Management includes Colorado in its list of top states with potential for restaurant growth. The magazine quotes Mark Berzins, who operates 19 eateries in the metro area under the Little Pub company:
“People here are not pulling in their horns. Restaurant spaces are getting gobbled up, new restaurants are opening, and food spending has held up in spite of the economy. … “When it comes to food, there’s a sense of adventure here.”
FOOD CALENDAR
Celebrate National Fried Chicken Day today by supporting the handful of metro eateries that go to the trouble of making genuine fried chicken from scratch. A quote from the film “The Help”: “Fried chicken just tend to make you feel better about life.”
TASTY LINKS
The Boulder Locavore blog includes a remodeled cake recipe to use up those ripe sweet Colorado Bing and Rainier cherries:
boulderlocavore.com/2012/07/sour-cream-cherry-cake.html
“One recipe stood out: Sour Cream Cherry Cake. I loved the notion of it though it used white cake mix and canned pie filling. I decided to reverse engineer the ingredients to use the ‘from scratch’ equivalent of white cake mix, which I did by combining the dry ingredients from two vintage white cake recipes used as guides, and made my own cherry pie filling with my mother lode of fresh cherries. Despite the convenience of mixes, which I’m sure were truly the hip thing to do at the time of this recipe, I opt for ‘from scratch’ baking.”
The Denver Eater site includes a great q&a with the owner/inspiration for Comida, the celebrated real Mex food truck and restaurant in Longmont:
WHO SERVES AURORA’S BEST GUACAMOLE?
• If you love the Aurora’s wide,wide world of dining, be sure to vote soon for your favorite thin-crust pizza, sushi, brunch, steaks, barbecue ribs, Korean BBQ, supermarket, wine list and bakery in the city in the Aurora Sentinel’s debut Grade A Awards. Look for the online ballot at:
www.aurorasentinel.com/grade-a-ballot/
John Lehndorff is the editor of Colorado Table. Contact him at jlehndorff@aurorasentinel.com. He writes the food column Nibbles in the Aurora Sentinel, Buckley Guardian and Life Science weeklies and websites and hosts Radio Nibbles Thursday at 8:25 a.m. on KGNU radio (kgnu.org). Tell your foodie friends to “like” the Nibbles Facebook page. Find more on Colorado food at: https://www.aurorasentinel.com/category/guide/colorado-table/