Once again, SPAM -- everyone's favorite potted meat product -- is in the news. And this time, there's a Colorado hook: Ron Pearman of Colorado Springs won the grand prize in the Great American SPAM Championship. (Read Melanie Asmar's interview with the champ here.) The contest, held at state and county fairs all over this great nation, drew hundreds of entries, all from people with a deep and abiding love of SPAM, but Pearman won out. He beat all comers. He beat the field.
And he did it wi
If winter is the new summer when it comes to firing up the backyard grill (as I reported last December), then the big snowfalls of the past few weeks mean spring must be the new winter - which is fine, since winter is summer anyway. I think.
And summer begins for real the first day you smell those delicious steaks and burgers cooking on your damned neighbor's grill. But according to a recent study, the smell of food grilling outdoors is so powerful that it can change your attitude and "stir act
Tony White, kinda/sorta ready for his closeup.
Last week, we told you about a series of seventeen wallet thefts in Lakewood since February. But rest easy (or at least easier), Lakewood shoppers. Over the weekend, local cops arrested Tony White, 46, after he allegedly tried to lift a wallet from a shopping cart at a Colfax King Soopers -- and in the course of the investigation, they became confident enough that he had been involved in many, if not all, of the other snatchings that they are now d
There was a time when I swore that the best barbecue to be had in the state of Colorado was at the Bugling Bull Trading Post, a kind of general store/truck stop/campground supplier down on 1668 North Highway 67 in Sedalia. Pit man Mike Frislie used to run a kind of outlaw smoking operation there that supplied some seriously wicked hillbilly 'cue, working out of nothing more than a couple of knocked-together smokers set up in the parking lot of the Bull whenever the weather allowed.
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They spiked jerky. Why not bananas?Ah, caffeine. The most wonderful of all stimulants. The most legal of all stimulants, more to the point. Is there anything that can't be improved by the judicious -- or injudicious -- addition of caffeine? Apparently not, since the last few years have seen an explosion of caffeinated products, from the ubiquitous energy drink to chewing gum and mints, malt liquor and, most recently, beef jerky. But there remain a few key items that could be markedly impr
