Editor’s Note: Last week, our regular contributor and friend Jennie Franks (of the Telluride Playwrights Festival) wrote a wonderful tribute to Judge Sharon Shuteran, who died earlier this month while hiking in Mexico. Her untimely death left her family and her extended in Telluride and beyond in shock. Sharon was the county judge who judged…
Sorry Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, the rain in Spain has absolutely nothing to do with the plain. It much prefers the hilly lands of the country’s northern coast. Reminiscent of the Irish countryside, la Costa Verde, or the Green Coast, is a lush landscape of rolling hills, verdant pastures and craggy shoreline. Celebrated as…
Editor’s note: We are so excited to have chef and photographer Lisa Barlow back on our pages with recipes you will want to print out and keep. Well, hello Spring! Brooklyn is blooming this week. Pretty pink cherry and magnolia blossoms are already showering their petals onto sidewalks and sunny yellow forsythia branches are cheering…
Editor’s Note: This is another installment of a weekly series by the team of scholars/dynamic enviro-activists Anna Zivian and Billy Mason. Both have deep ties to Telluride, but have gone out into the world to make a difference. They are. Strawberries may just have gotten a little bit safer. For you, for farmworkers, and for…
Editor’s note: Hunting & Gathering is part of an ongoing series by part-time local, regular contributor and foodie extraordinaire, Lisa Barlow. For all you foodies out there, look for more recipes and insights from the likes of Jeff Badger of Siam in the coming weeks. Sometimes on a cold day, all I want is a…
Every time I go to Mexico City, it seems that a fun new restaurant has opened in my favorite neighborhood, Colonia Roma. This time, acting on a hot tip, I showed up at Maximo Bistrot a few minutes before opening time at 1pm. “Espera” the nice woman setting the tables told me. “We are not…
Après is to skiers what tailgating is to football fans. It’s not optional, but an essential part of the day and there is a certain etiquette and culture that goes with it. The Euros are the obvious professionals of the art of the après ski. In Zermatt, Switzerland there are 38 on mountain restaurants and…
These days in Telluride, it’s very out to bring a bottle of wine to a dinner party. If you want to crush it, and I mean crush it, bring a growler of Telluride Brewing Beer instead. When I sat down and had a pint with Tommy Thacher, one of the owners of Telluride Brewing, last…
Trying a new restaurant can be as intimidating as trying a new pair of skis: you hope for greatness, yet you fear disappointment. But make no more excuses—head straight on over to Telluride’s latest restaurant, Flavor, and sink into the good stuff. Flavor lives up to its namesake. The New Orleans-inspired cuisine is fresh and…
Tired of same old turkey on your holiday table? How does a whole roasted leg of lamb with risotto sound as an alternative? The holiday menu prepared by Peter Cumplido, Executive Chef, Hotel Madeline, Mountain Village, also includes a baby spinach salad with cranberry vinaigrette, fresh figs, shaved prosciutto and ash goat cheese, and a…
