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Johnson & Wales University

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Gluten-free food cart, Thyme To Eat Now, will soon roll into downtown

    When Nancy Weagant gave up her three-decade dental career five years ago, she decided to head into the kitchen. "I grew up in San Francisco, and I watched my mom cook forever," she says. "And I studied abroad in France and Italy. I just knew this is what I wanted to do." And so she enrolled at Cook ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Guess where I'm eating a burger and fries?

    This is where the cool kids from the food writing class at Johnson & Wales hang out after their last day of the trimester. Can you guess where we're eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week's Guess Where posts is entered into a pool -- and every Monday, we sele ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Amerigo, a ten-table Italian-American restaurant and market, will open in Ballpark in July

    "He looks like Clark Kent, only cuter," whispered a diner at last night's pop-up dinner at Studio F, which paraded the culinary chutzpah of Jenna Johansen, along with her 27-year-old protegee, Iain Chisholm. A Johnson & Wales graduate who's worked in the same kitchens as Johansen for more than a dec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Tyler Nemkov has left Mateo

    When Tyler Nemkov joined Cafe Society as a twenty-year-old intern from Johnson & Wales three years ago, he knew he wanted to pursue both a journalism and a culinary career. He opted to keep working in kitchens while he earned his degree at the University of Colorado -- right before it closed its jo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Tyler Nemkov is now the exec chef at Mateo

    When Tyler Nemkov joined Cafe Society as a twenty-year-old intern from Johnson & Wales three years ago, he knew he wanted some kind of career in the culinary world. And now he's found it -- although he's still a month away from graduation at the University of Colorado, the 23-year-old Nemkov was jus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Photos: Mayor Michael Hancock breaks a few eggs at Johnson and Wales

    As Patricia Calhoun wrote this morning, the Denver omelet isn't all it's cracked up to be.

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    J. Michael Melton, exec chef of Zydeco's, on destroying candy bars and shi*tin' and spittin' up

    Lori Midson​ J. Michael Melton Zydeco's 1730 Wynkoop Street 303-293-2887 www.zydecosdenver.com This is part one of my chat with J. Michael Melton, exec chef of Zydeco's. Part two of our interview will run in this space tomorrow. I got the gift of the Southern double name," drawls J. Michae ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Beaujolais and Beyond, CANniversary and more on this week's culinary calendar

    ​Oskar Blues is celebrating its CANniversary, the coveted Beaujolais varietal gets released, and there's a lot more in food-and-beverages happening in this week's culinary calendar. Here's a taste of what's ahead:

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Johnson & Wales alum and Army vet wins national cooking contest

    Thomas Bohne with his winning dish.​Food in the mess hall at the U.S. Army base in Wurzburg, Germany, was bad. So bad that Thomas Bohne, who had never even cracked open a blue box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, took it upon himself to make something edible. He dropped 99 cents on a Thai cookboo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2011

    Kitchen Crusaders

    Thomas Bohne with his winning dish.​Food in the mess hall at the U.S. Army base in Wurzburg, Germany, was bad. So bad that Thomas Bohne, who had never even cracked open a blue box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, took it upon himself to make something edible. He dropped 99 cents on a Thai cookboo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Frasca's Bobby Stuckey at the center of Denver Cochon 555 pig fight

    You be the judge. ​Cochon 555, the porkeriffic national competition that trots into Denver on Sunday, April 3, recently announced the five Colorado chefs combating for the Prince of Porc title: Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bisto Vendome); Kelly Liken (Restaurant Kelly Liken); Alex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    New Year's resolutions from Max MacKissock, Matt Selby, Mark DeNittis, Michael Long and twenty-one more Denver/Boulder chefs

    Lori MidsonBrad Rowell, chef at Colt & Gray, resolves to eat twenty percent less pork fat per day and replace that with twenty percent more Schlitz​ Haven't made your New Year's resolutions yet? That makes two of us. But instead of focusing on ourselves, we prodded more than two dozen Denver/ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Chef and Tell, part two: Jorge de la Torre on vegetarians, knives and offal

    Lori Midson​ Jorge de la Torre Johnson & Wales University www.jwu.edu This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Jorge de la Torre, dean of culinary education at Johnson & Wales University. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: The She ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Jorge de la Torre, dean of culinary education at Johnson & Wales University, dishes on Denver's best hummus, his students and surly service

    Lori Midson​ Jorge de la Torre Johnson & Wales University www.jwu.edu This is part one of Lori Midson's interview with Jorge de la Torre, dean of culinary education at Johnson & Wales University. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. "I'm a little worried about this in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Martin Luther King Jr. Early College wins EatWell@School culinary competition

    The winning team plating the winning dish​LiveWell Colorado sponsored a nine-week after-school culinary program with three Denver high schools that culminated in the winning team from Martin Luther King Jr. Early College taking home first place at the competition last Friday. The all-female te ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Il Mondo Vecchio's Mark DeNittis on fat sausages, scrawny chicken feet and breasts

    Lori Midson ​ Mark DeNittis Il Mondo Vecchio 1174 South Cherokee Street 303-744-6328 mondovecchio.net I dig this job, and I'm having a blast," says Mark DeNittis, knocking back another swig from a bottle of Peroni, his beer of choice. In front of him is a plate of salumi, pulled from the mea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    Johnson & Wales chef Eric Stein dishes on vegetarian food (Denver has the worst), Michael Long (he's a genius) and peanut butter and jelly

    Lori Midson​This is part two of Lori Midson's Chef and Tell interview with Eric Stein, chef/instructor at Johnson & Wales. To read part one of that interview, click here. Most embarrassing moment in the kitchen: I worked for a restaurant called Adesso in Providence, Rhode Island, that featur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Chef and Tell: Eric Stein from Johnson & Wales rips on former Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan

    Lori MidsonEric Stein, Johnson & Wales chef/instructor​This is part one of Lori Midson's interview with Eric Stein, instructor and chef at Johnson & Wales University. To read part two of that interview, check back here tomorrow. Eric Stein Chef/instructor Johnson & Wales University Eric St ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Chef and Tell with Olav Peterson from Bistro One

    ​"I was fourteen, working at a French bakery in Castle Rock as a dishwasher, and near my dish station, there was a picture of a chef's kitchen in France...and there was something about that picture that always intrigued me and made me feel like it was my destiny to have my own professional kit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Guess where I'm eating?

    Nancy Levine​Yes, we Westworders love our charcuterie. And this plate, stripped down to the quintessential French style (the proprietor of this establishment would have it no other way), comes courtesy of a charcutier who graduated from Johnson and Wales. Can you guess where I'm eating? Spec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Tonight: Denver's top female chefs light the fire at Jax Fish House

    Lori MidsonSheila Lucero, exec chef of Jax Fish House​"A few years ago, during a brainstorming session, I came up with an idea to create an all-female chef cooking event, something that would bring together some of the best female chefs in Denver," says Sheila Lucero, executive chef of Jax Fis ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 7, 2010

    Women and Wine

    Lori MidsonSheila Lucero, exec chef of Jax Fish House​"A few years ago, during a brainstorming session, I came up with an idea to create an all-female chef cooking event, something that would bring together some of the best female chefs in Denver," says Sheila Lucero, executive chef of Jax Fis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Slow Food Denver is on the playground at Smith Elementary

    Lindsay McNicholas explains the produce offered at Smith Elementary.​The playground at Smith Elementary becomes quite crowded on Thursday afternoons. That's when parents, teachers, students and community members gather to purchase fresh organic vegetables and fruits. The sales are designed to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    Geek in the Galley: Jobs for experimental bakers

    Looks just like real bread, doesn't it?​ While I am not generally one for hyping the cause of vegetarian-this or vegan-that, there has always been something about the art (yes, art) of vegan and gluten-free baking that has tickled my geek bone. It's the same instinct that makes me love the m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    From the kitchen

    ​The decision went like this: "Okay, head to class now, or... I glance over at the simmering basil syrup in the works and strawberries blending in the robo-coupe. ... just stay here." "Here" was the kitchen, and "class" was college. I stayed "here" because it seemed like a good idea. Because ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: The DNC's island of misfit toys

    ​I'm looking across the highway at the Pepsi Center and Invesco Field at Mile High, the settings for so many memorable sights during the Democratic National Convention, which kicked off exactly a year ago today. And between them -- at least from this vantage point -- is Elitch Gardens, where, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    IACP Conference Report: What do several hundred wet food writers smell like?

    For those of you not yet hipped to the big foodie news in Denver this week, the International Association of Culinary Professionals is in town -- a kind of traveling circus show of food writers, food editors, food pimps, chefs, authors, wine gurus and associated tradesmen. And, of course, Jason Shee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    Now you can taste Denmark on Kipling

    There is something so sensual about tearing into an airy croissant, steam gently rising as you let the pastry melt on your tongue. Creating this masterpiece is no easy feat (as I learned in my baking class at Johnson and Wales), necessitating hunks of butter and dough, steady hands and a patient ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    Gateaux giving back

    The next time you're munching on a tea cookie from Gateaux, our Best Bakery of 2001, you can take pride in the fact that a few of your dollars are going to a good cause. This year, Gateaux is giving 10 percent of all tea cookie sales to a different charity every month."We decided to allocate our don ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    Super-secret supper club opens tonight in west Denver

    Eric Stein was online, begrudgingly watching Top Chef audition tapes, trying to figure out why he hadn't made the cut. After all, he's a chef, an instructor at Johnson & Wales and a registered dietitian who owns a company that teaches people how to eat well. He even has a master's of science. "What ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2008

    National Guard holding the line at Johnson & Wales

    Eric Stein was online, begrudgingly watching Top Chef audition tapes, trying to figure out why he hadn't made the cut. After all, he's a chef, an instructor at Johnson & Wales and a registered dietitian who owns a company that teaches people how to eat well. He even has a master's of science. "What ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2008

    National Guard holding the line at Johnson & Wales

    Eric Stein was online, begrudgingly watching Top Chef audition tapes, trying to figure out why he hadn't made the cut. After all, he's a chef, an instructor at Johnson & Wales and a registered dietitian who owns a company that teaches people how to eat well. He even has a master's of science. "What ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2008

    Delegating Denver #44 of 56: Rhode Island

    Eric Stein was online, begrudgingly watching Top Chef audition tapes, trying to figure out why he hadn't made the cut. After all, he's a chef, an instructor at Johnson & Wales and a registered dietitian who owns a company that teaches people how to eat well. He even has a master's of science. "What ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2007

    Safety First

    Eric Stein was online, begrudgingly watching Top Chef audition tapes, trying to figure out why he hadn't made the cut. After all, he's a chef, an instructor at Johnson & Wales and a registered dietitian who owns a company that teaches people how to eat well. He even has a master's of science. "What ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 21, 2006

    Sizzlin' Chefs

    Eric Stein was online, begrudgingly watching Top Chef audition tapes, trying to figure out why he hadn't made the cut. After all, he's a chef, an instructor at Johnson & Wales and a registered dietitian who owns a company that teaches people how to eat well. He even has a master's of science. "What ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 7, 2006

    Room With a View

    The Mayananda is at your service

  • News

    March 17, 2005

    Short-Order Cooking

    Johnson & Wales whips up a hoops treat from scratch.

  • Dining

    October 28, 2004

    Bite Me

    Ham on Wry

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2004

    Talking Shop

    Valentine's Day turns guys into sweethearts

  • Calendar

    January 8, 2004

    Behind the Scenes

    Inside Look opens sculptors' studios

  • Dining

    October 23, 2003

    Bite Me

    Space Invaders

  • Calendar

    July 17, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Space Invaders

  • Dining

    March 20, 2003

    Bite Me

    The Waiting Game

  • News

    March 13, 2003

    Starting From Scratch

    The Johnson & Wales recipe for success includes a fresh-baked sports program.

  • Dining

    November 28, 2002

    Market Watch

    Sin for your supper at Cook's Fresh Market.

  • Dining

    July 25, 2002

    Bite Me

    Majority Rules

  • Dining

    March 7, 2002

    The Bite

    A deli piles it on with its NY-style pastrami.

  • Dining

    December 20, 2001

    Solid Old

    The Greenbriar Inn is still golden.

  • News

    January 11, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of January 11, 2001

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