Peru

Reader: Love Taita's pisco sours, but lower prices would sweeten lunch

Want to take a quick culinary trip this weekend? Try Taita, the Peruvian restaurant that Gretchen Kurtz reviews this week. In addition to the classic dishes of Peru, Taita serves up an interesting fusion that reflects the country's more recent culinary influences -- as well as the wide-ranging backg ... More >>

Taita takes diners on an unexpected journey through Peruvian cuisine

See also: Behind the scenes at Taita

CU Peru hosts a show supporting global health care at Hooked on Colfax tomorrow

This Saturday, April 6, Hooked on Colfax will donate its wall space to Local Goes Global, an evening devoted to raising money through art for a global health-focused nonprofit, Comunidades Unidas Peru. A student-run organization, CU Peru comprises volunteers from various schools at the University o ... More >>

The chicken at La Polleria is a real bird in the hand

See also: Behind the scenes at La Polleria

It takes pluck to open a polleria in Centennial

Quick! Name a Peruvian food. Chances are you named ceviche -- raw, citrus-marinated fish. But Bob Van Diest is hoping that will soon change. A year and a half ago, Van Diest and his family opened La Polleria, a small restaurant in Centennial serving another type of authentic Peruvian fare: rotisse ... More >>

Taita Peruvian Cuisine & Bar will open by the end of the month in Capitol Hill

"I've been involved with food since I was six, and I've always dreamed of having a restaurant in an old building with a wooden roof and exposed brick -- a space to create whatever I want," says Pepe Aparicio, who, along with his brother, Gianfranco, will open Taita, a Peruvian restaurant housed in a ... More >>

World Threads III pays homage to global fiber arts at TACtile Textile Arts Center

One of TACtile Textile Arts Center's most colorful exhibits is back: World Threads III: Preserving Textile Traditions, featuring -- as in the past -- a beautiful global palette of fiber-arts handiwork to both look at and to buy. Even more beautiful is the humanitarian purpose behind the show -- to s ... More >>

Latino Life on Screen

Robert Jadin's "Venomous Snakes" slithers into CU's Museum of Natural History

Slither up to Boulder tonight to hear herpetologist Robert Jadin lecture on "Venomous Snakes," including a new breed of pit-viper snakes belonging to the genus crotalus. "Many different biodiversities exist and have yet to be discovered," he says. Earth has just as much to be discovered on the surfa ... More >>

Q&A: Solitaire director Nick Waggoner on tonight's Sweetgrass Productions world premiere

​Director Nick Waggoner and his Boulder-based Sweetgrass Productions crew spent two years filming in the backcountry in Argentina, Peru, and Chilean Patagonia to make Solitaire, a film unlike any of the other ski and snowboard porn premiering this month. We caught up with Waggoner and produc ... More >>

Solitaire, two-year extreme skiing project in Andes, nears finish line (VIDEO)

​Here at the Extreme Sports Desk, we're big fans of work by Sweetgrass Productions, a cabal of Colorado College grads turned gonzo ski-and-snowboard documentary filmmakers. And now their most ambitious effort to date, a two-year epic journey to "landscapes never before visited on film" across ... More >>

The ten best children's shows not meant for children

​We miss Saturday mornings sometimes, when we would run downstairs filled with sugary cereal and spend the day watching cartoons and "educational programming." Even though these days we're well aware of the alphabet (some of us, at least -- mostly those that don't comment articles on the inter ... More >>

Ask the bartender: Lemon or lime in a Pisco sour?

​Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource ... More >>

Salba: Another superfood for the cupboard

​When whole wheat flour, line-caught salmon, blueberries and flax just won't do, there's another super-duper food for the most healthy of the healthy: Salba Smarts has been selling its line of products containing salba since 2006, and I've been munching my way through them. This superfood app ... More >>

Snowsurf, noboard & backcountry magnificence from Sweetgrass Productions (VIDEO)

​There are, no doubt, saner ways to film the Cordillera Blanca of Peru than paragliding a few feet above jagged glaciers, vertiginous cliffs and freezing lakes, camera and breathing and life itself neatly suspended -- but that wouldn't be the path chosen by Sweetgrass Productions, a backcountr ... More >>

Latino Lessons

The Rhythm Is Gonna Move You

This weekend: Peruvian street food cooking demo at the Denver Public Library

​Denver's street-food scene is exploding, what with all those cupcake trucks, biscuit-mobiles, gastro-carts on wheels and upscale taco wagons hawking their foodstuffs all over town. And the trend hasn't gone unnoticed by the Denver Public Library's free Fresh City Life programs, which integrat ... More >>

Eat on the Street

Want rum service? Visit Cafe Brazil

Dog the Bounty Hunter: Joran van der Sloot is "a wheeler-dealer, a conniver and a serial killer"

Dog on Joy.​Joy Behar must have a thing for guests with Colorado connections. Last week on her Headline News show, it was Ted Haggard pimping his new Colorado Springs church. And last night, she jawed with Dog the Bounty Hunter about suspected Natalee Holloway killer Joran van der Sloot, who's ... More >>

Tonight: Vino 101 brings Latin wine to the masses

​Wine enthusiasts -- who perhaps don't quite reach the level of oenophile, but nevertheless enjoy their fermented grapes -- are generally familiar with French, Californian and even Australian wines. But there's a knowledge gap when it comes to Latin wines -- a gap that Centro Latin Kitchen & R ... More >>

Today: Cook Street focuses on North Africa

​Those of us who love food tend to love it from all regions of the globe. But while we might appreciate certain exotic cuisines, it's sometimes difficult to incorporate them into our own cooking repertoire. You can change all that with Cook Street School of Fine Cooking's A World of Taste ser ... More >>

Sugar High: Olivea

Liz KellermeyerChocolate and fleur de sel caramel tart with milk chocolate gelato and nougatine crunch. Oh, yes.​If your New Year's resolutions have you off the sugar, this post isn't for you. If, however, you've instead vowed to be more mindful of the quality of your indulgences and are keeping ... More >>

The year in reviews: a handy link guide to all the records reviewed in Westword this year

​Perhaps inspired by the fact that we're in the process of putting together our annual year-end lists and thus reflecting on our favorite releases from the past twelve months, we've been going through all the albums we reviewed in 2009 in an effort to stir our memories just in case a worthy releas ... More >>

Part two: Chef and Tell with Sean Yontz of Mezcal, Sketch and Tambien

Lori MidsonSean Yontz with his wife Alexa​This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Sean Yontz, executive chef of Mezcal, Tambien and Sketch. You can read part one here. Culinary inspirations: Ferran Adrià, the chef at El Bulli, because of the way he's completely changed people's perc ... More >>

A former Denver newsman on why America should give Al-Jazeera English a chance

Photo by Charles Steck.Gabriel Elizondo circa 2005. "New Gig," an October 2005 Message column, introduced readers to Gabriel Elizondo, who decided to leave his job as an assignment editor at Channel 7 in favor of an opportunity to join Al-Jazeera International, a new English-language spinoff of the ... More >>

Go mouth of the border on January 1 at Los Cabos II

Los Cabos II promises "puro Peru," and as Jason Sheehan found when he reviewed Los Cabos, it makes good on that promise. The restaurant at 1525 Champa Street that won our Best Central/South American Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2008 recently added another authentic dish to the lineup: Peruvian ... More >>

Tip Sheet: Debajo Del Agua

Africa Rises

Perú Negro brings a musical legacy to life.

Sound Bites

Brief reviews of current releases

Cebiche

More of the same isn't always a bad thing.

Ceviche, and More Raw Data

Ceviche, and More Raw Data

South of the Border

Head for warmer climes at the Walnut Foundry.

Wake-Up Call

Some reasons to rise and shine.

Here's Your Insight, Pal

James Redfield's Celestine Prophecy is one divine mess.

Come to Papas

Los Cabos II stirs up Peru's culinary history.

Savage Beauty

The DAM's Tiwanaku is an impressive, groundbreaking exhibit.

Radio Comedy

Will Durst zings for KGNU

Best Place to Find a Miracle

Manos Folk Art

Explore It

Get a manos-on experience at Machu Picchu

Fool's Gold

Newmont Mining, Machu Picchu and the Museum of Nature & Science make strange bedfellows.

Terror Firmer

In The Dancer Upstairs, Bardem is the calm amid the political storm.

Meaner Pastures

Life can get wild and woolly for herders who flock to the U.S. under a special law.

Amor the Merrier

Piscos goes south of the border. Way south of the border.

United Nations

A Native Is Restless

Weary Denver computer programmer Thom Lancy dreams of retracing the Kon-tiki expedition to the South Seas.

The Joy of Mex?

THE GOODS

THERE WEREN'T THOUSANDS OF FIRST-RATE RECORDS RELEASED IN 1995. BUT THERE WERE NINETY.