Food

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FD: Contest brings feel of old-fashioned Christmas in Palisade

It all started at a Palisade Olde Fashioned Christmas meeting last year when the vision of building the Gingerbread House Contest to one with many entries and categories came into being and into my hands. A Gingerbread House Contest and ...

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FD: Dixie Burmeister Column November 19, 2008

Say it isn’t so! Can Thanksgiving really be next week? The answer, of course, is a resounding “yes!” The Fasken family from Palisade is going over the mountains and through the hills to grandmother’s house for a ...

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FD: Wine Column November 12, 2008

There’s a dustup on the wine blogging trail and it all has to do with ethics, perceived, actual and otherwise. The background in a wine glass: Earlier this summer, Rodney Strong Vineyards sent wine blogger Jeff Lefevere ...

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FD: Hats off to the chef

Any culinary student can try out for the team, but there is still one ultimate test of dedication. “Can you get up at 5 in the morning?” asked Jon St. Peter, faculty member at Western Colorado Community College and coach of the ...

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FD: Dixie Burmeister Columnn November 05, 2008

This issue of The Daily Sentinel is packed with election results, and this column is not an exception. Here are some ballot results you’ll not see anywhere else. As promised, here are the results of the “Cooking with the ...

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FD: Wine Column October 29, 2008

It’s late October, and the syrah is fermenting nicely, thank you. This is a big experiment, wine writer turns winemaker. I don’t think Domain Drouhin will ever have to worry about me taking away some of its business, but the ...

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FD: Wine Column October 22, 2008

Drink local. That means us, since we’re the ones in control of what we drink. The movement to eat locally has another focus: Learning to drink locally, too. The concept really is the same. Know what you’re drinking by getting to ...

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FD: Dixie Burmeister Column October 15, 2008

Ghosts, goblins, witches and all those other scary and not-so-scary characters of all ages will be celebrating Halloween big time Oct. 31 because it’s on a Friday this year. The pumpkins will be glowing and the sugar flowing, so be sure ...

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FD: Wine Column October 08, 2008

Mirroring a season that started two weeks behind, the wine grape harvest in western Colorado finally is off and running. “It’s going full-blown right now,” said Horst Caspari, state viticulturist at the Colorado State ...

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