When 3.2 beer was made legal in April 1933 — as a stopgap method to get booze to the people before Prohibition officially ended eight months later — the Crimson and Gold Inn at 1201 S. Pearl St. was among the first Denver bars to serve the lower-alcohol suds. The […]
DU has bid adieu to the old institutional cafeterias that fed students for decades. Today’s students dine in style at eateries such as the Nelson Dining Hall, which is open to all members of the DU community. Nelson’s Oxford-inspired grand dining room serves 1,000 people daily, offering a made-to-order deli […]
Steele Platt (BSBA hotel and restaurant management ’82) remembers the day he arrived in Newport Beach, Calif., back in 1990. He had a brand new Mercedes and a briefcase filled with $100,000. He knew the day marked the end of his successful career in Denver’s restaurant and nightclub industry, but […]
The next world power I greatly enjoyed the article “China on the Rise” [winter 2010]. It reminded me of my first quarter at DU (fall of ’64). I had enrolled for a class called The Rise of the West. I had no idea what I was in store for; it […]
If you were a kid in the late 1800s and early 1900s, you lived in a heady time: Coca-Cola, cotton candy, Life Savers and Popsicles all were invented during that era. But adults, arguably, had it even better. Until Prohibition, “Americans were the best cocktail makers in the world. People […]
My grandmother had a grudge against hamburger. When I was growing up, Granddad would make a meatloaf every so often, but if Grandma was going to cook beef, it would be in the form of a roast or a steak. Gammy had grown up poor and was acutely aware that […]
It was my coworker Kathryn Mayer — since departed for a managing-editor gig elsewhere in Denver — who first had the idea for a food issue of the University of Denver Magazine. We were turning up so many stories about alumni doing interesting things in the restaurant world, both in […]
Susie Heller (BA education ’72) has cooked up quite the career over the past 25 years. After a chance meeting with the famous Jacques Pépin in 1985, Heller began working as a culinary producer on his television show and on shows with his friend Julia Child. She’s since produced dozens […]
Remember those colorful diagrams that showed how different regions of the tongue contained different types of taste buds that detected specific tastes, like salty, sweet and bitter? Many people do, because this commonly held misconception — which came about when a German study on taste was mistranslated — is all […]
Lunch boxes are more than a hobby for alum and restaurant owner Bryan Ehrenholm.
DU’s Morgridge College of Education is part of a project aimed at improving children’s health in Colorado’s San Luis Valley and other rural communities in the state. The project, “Healthy Eaters, Lifelong Movers” (HELM), will increase student access to healthy meals, physical activity opportunities and quality physical education. DU is […]
Blair Taylor (BSBA hotel and restaurant management ’74) is well known around Denver for his award-winning Cherry Creek restaurant, Barolo Grill, and its legendary annual staff trip to Italy. What most Denverites don’t know is that the fine-food aficionado also owns Enotec Imports, a boutique Italian wine importer. By age […]
Kyle Schlachter (BS environmental science ’03) turned his passion for dirt into a love of wine. The geography PhD student studies and markets the Colorado wine industry for a living. Schlachter began writing his dissertation on lake sediment and fire reconstruction but became distracted by his developing interest in wine. […]
When double amputee Neil Duncan summited Mount Kilimanjaro, he did more than conquer Africa’s highest peak. The climb marked the end of his recovery and the beginning of the rest of his life.
Palestinian women are fighting for independence and equality. PhD candidate Rebecca Otis is documenting their struggle.