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Outrageous Baking: Gluten-Free Applesauce Cake Review + Giveaway

March 16, 2012
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Winner announced! Congrats, Manda – entry #8! I have this belief that the preference for either cooking or baking over the other one is an indication of personality. For instance, the best bakers I know are typically Type A, Control Freak types who looooooove doing things with perfection and precision. I envy their attention to [...]

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Taste & Travel Tuesday: Hotel Boulderado | Boulder, Colorado

September 13, 2011

Opening on New Year’s Eve in 1909, the Hotel Boulderado is one of the oldest business in Boulder, Colorado and was the first luxury hotel in the area. Today, it boasts 160 rooms, each creatively adorned with a different wallpaper from the next, meaning every time you come here your room can be a completely [...]

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Taste & Travel Tuesday: Newport, Rhode Island

February 1, 2011
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Mary Spicer owns Spicer’s Events, based in both Boulder, Colorado and Newport, Rhode Island. Here she shares her favorite food finds in Newport, RI.

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Photos From the Road

September 13, 2010
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Road Trip, Day Last.  On Sunday night, Chris and I were cozied up in the last hotel room of the trip, having decided to crash in Glenwood Springs after 8 hours on the road rather than push another 3-4 for more and get home late last night.  Excellent choice! We spent an hour in the [...]

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The Art of a Cheese Plate

August 16, 2010

Grace is a friend and fellow blogger, and a kindred spirit in the manner of all things food and travel.  She’s scouted many of the cheese plates here in Boulder and offers up what she considers cheese plate musts, great information about cheeses and some delicious photos of the local fromage.  You can find our [...]

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Denver’s 5280 Wine Tours

August 2, 2010

It’s no secret I’m a bit of a wine-o.  New(ish) to Colorado, but not new to the vine, I wanted to check out what Colorado has to offer in terms of grape-growing and production.  So, Boyfriend and I spent this past Saturday checking out some of the wineries and tasting rooms here on the front [...]

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Eat the Bop

June 8, 2010
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{not bad for an iPhone photo, eh?} When I first moved to Boulder, I caught a cab to downtown with my roommate, and as we tend to with the friendly cab drivers here, we got to chatting with ours.  He revealed that this night was actually his last night driving, as he was leaving the [...]

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Radda Trattoria – Boulder, CO

April 5, 2010

An extension of my love affair with Mateo Restaurant, I’ve finally made it into their sister shop – Radda Trattoria – for more than just a drink. Radda is: A neighborhood restaurant inspired by the cuisine and culture of Tuscany, Italy. YUM, right?  RIGHT. I met “the crew” – some of Boulder’s finest networkers, foodies, [...]

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Pearl Street Hooligans

August 20, 2009

My first trip of 2009 was out to visit my oldest and dearest friend Steve.  He moved out to Colorado from Minnesota after college, and having recently decided that four years was enough, he moved back this summer.  I went out to visit two weeks prior to that move, back in the middle of May, [...]

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