Michael Kalush

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Fort Collins Food Diaries: Finishing the last bite: Our last column

More than a dozen columns and several thousand calories later, it’s finally here: our last food column. May 10, 2010 | 2:07 am

Hit the snooze button, then head to Snooze

Serves: Egg dishes, specialty benedicts Unique pancakes including the Pineapple Upside Down Pancakes, Sweet Potato Pancakes and Wheat’s Cherry Cobbler pancakes
Address: 144 W. Mountain Ave.
Hours: Monday through Friday: 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday: 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Phone: (970) 482-WAKE (9253)
E-mail:
Eggme@SnoozeEatery.com

Apr 30, 2010 | 1:17 am

Underused, unusual, unnecessary kitchen utensils

Open any drawer in a foodie’s kitchen. Among the knives and measuring cups are alien-like whisks and devices that seem to belong in a medical lab.
But not to worry. Apr 16, 2010 | 1:10 am

Chowing down on favorites at the local bar scene

Out at the local bars, it’s safe to assume that people are looking for their calories in liquid form. Mar 18, 2010 | 7:01 pm

Campus Eye

Brent Topper, a sophomore construction management major, walks down the stairs in Guggenheim Hall on Thursday afternoon. Mar 11, 2010 | 9:06 pm

Shaunta Butler, a senior landscape architecture major, works on her project inspired by Italian architecture and beets in a design studio in the Natural and Environmental Sciences Building on Thursday. Feb 26, 2010 | 12:11 am

Fort Collins Food Diaries: Several sweets for your Valentine's Day sweethearts

For some, as Valentine’s Day approaches, so does a level of hatred toward the celebration of, as one of Madeline’s friends put it, “the sudden pairing off of people getting ready for the flood.” But, as foodies, we believe the gushy, lovey-dovey holiday allows for something more than, in some cases, a bad, forced date. Feb 16, 2010 | 10:36 pm

Cupcakes move into mid-American culinary spotlight

All three of the mixers in the Buttercream Cupcakery have names. There’s Mr. Jones, the deep gray Hobart, Elanor, the Eurodib 20-liter that’s “locked down … not as flexible,” co-owner Mary DeHerder says, and Pewee, the white KitchenAid stand mixer. Feb 11, 2010 | 12:54 am

Food column: Drop the diet and resolve to be a foodie

Generally, in relation to food, people make New Year’s resolutions to eat less. But we, the foodies that we are, have a few food-related resolutions that will enhance your overall culinary experiences this decade. Jan 27, 2010 | 12:23 am

Campus Eye

Jan 20, 2010 | 1:20 am

Fort Collins Food Diaries - Four gifts for your student foodie this season

Jan 18, 2010 | 12:51 am

Campus Eye November 16

Dec 17, 2009 | 1:49 pm

Reservior Romp

Katie Cook, a freshman history major, left, and Allison Reppe, a freshman business major, brave the cold waters in Horsetooth Reservoir on Thursday for a fundraiser held by the Greek Life council. Dec 17, 2009 | 1:30 pm

Our hero, Bourdain, on adventurous gastronomy

“As soon as the head crowned,” TV travel food journalist Anthony Bourdain said of his now two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Wednesday night, “the leather jacket went in the toilet.” The former chef, self-described drug addict, badass chain-smoking drinker with a foul mouth and blunt insults has become more of a family man, he told the hundreds who turned out to see him speak at Denver’s Buell Theater. Dec 17, 2009 | 1:46 pm

Eating Lebanese style at local restaurant (SLIDESHOW)

Twenty-three years ago Samia El Hakim left Lebanon to visit America. Having left amid the Lebanese War, which started in the mid-70s, El Hakim could not return home. Dec 7, 2009 | 11:48 pm

Campus Eye

Kelley Cicere, a sophomore communications major, approaches one of the displays created by students in a promotions class for the Design and Merchandising Department on Thursday. The displays are located on the third floor of the Gifford Building. Jan 20, 2010 | 1:23 pm

Rams Victorious Over Western State

The Rams beat Western State 64-50 tonight in Moby Arena. Jan 20, 2010 | 1:23 pm

Campus Eye

Ross Brown, a freshman landscape architecture major, prepares and shapes a bonsai tree in his horticulture lab on Wednesday morning. Jan 20, 2010 | 1:23 pm

Fort Collins Food Diaries

As the leaves turn color --/red, orange and ochre --/flourishing one last time before departing in winter, most students' minds turn to Halloween, to/costumes and parties. But for us, the fall, October in particular, marks the month of the orange, bumbling, seeded fruit (yes, botanically it is classified as a fruit): the pumpkin, or punkin', as we have so amorously named it. Jan 20, 2010 | 1:23 pm