U.S. Department of Agriculture

Ten Years of Aeroplane plus Other Assorted Goodies

Diane DeGette Testifies on a Hot Topic

The Commerce City Pizza Crop Circle: A Sign That Extraterrestrials Love Pepperoni?

Papa John's Gets a Pizza the Action

Mouthing Off

Pouring on the high-fructose irony

The Bite

Still game to try venison despite disease scares.

Best Guilt-Free Butcher

Timberline Meats

Best Steakhouse for the Common Man

Texas Land & Cattle Steak House

Bite Me

Out of the Bleu.

Bite Me

Act Natural

Bite Me

Full of Beans

Bite Me

It's All Relative

Learn where the meat comes from

When Obama began his presidency, he pledged transparency. And last week, the USDA had new regulations go into effect for labels of origin. The labels of origin will be put on beef, pork, lamb, chicken, goat meat, fish and shellfish products, noting which country the product came from. When I heard a ... More >>

Mange Rovers

The Colorado Springs Airport hopes to keep coyotes off the runways.

Prime 121

The steaks may be prime, but the restaurant isn’t choice.

Pet Peeve

If one schnauzer is nice, what's wrong with 150?

Steaking a Claim

What's old is new again at Emil-Lene's.

Here's the Beef

We brake for jerky, America's fastest-growing snack food.

Say Cheese

Prepare for a stirring experience at the Swiss Haven Restaurant.

Going With the Flow

As spring melts into summer, water users along the St. Vrain could find themselves up the creek.

Where the Buffalo Moan

They’ve been worshiped, they’ve been slaughtered. Now bison are back—so why won’t you buy some burger?

A Bird in the Hand

The fate of the northern goshawk--and the timber industry--could rest with Richard Reynolds. He's not out of the woods yet.

Growing, Growing, Gone

When the U.S. declared war on drugs, Colorado's carnation industry went up in smoke

MOUTHING OFF

When the U.S. declared war on drugs, Colorado's carnation industry went up in smoke

MOUTHING OFF

When the U.S. declared war on drugs, Colorado's carnation industry went up in smoke

PRIME TIME

When the U.S. declared war on drugs, Colorado's carnation industry went up in smoke

HIGH PLAINS GRIFTERS

When the U.S. declared war on drugs, Colorado's carnation industry went up in smoke

Swift beef recall: Beware of tainted "Butt Ball Tip"

Yesterday, Greeley's own JBS Swift Beef Co. recalled over 41,000 pounds of meat contaminated with O157:H7 E.coli bacteria, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service. The stuff went out on April 21 to enterprises in Colorado and a dozen other states rangin ... More >>

Milking It: EnviroKidz Leapin' Lemurs

​​ Leapin Lemurs EnviroKidz Rating: Two-and-a-half spoons out of four Cereal description: Here's a partial list of ingredients in Leapin' Lemurs: "organic corn meal," "organic whole grain corn meal," "organic evaported cane juice," "organic peanut butter," "organic molasses," "organic ... More >>

Colorado Egg Producers make an egg-celent gesture

Shauna Ahern​One in eight Coloradoans will struggle to put food on the table this holiday season, and 99 percent of food banks in the state have reported an enormous surge in the need for emergency assistance. Kudos, then, to the Colorado Egg Producers, whose Good Egg Project is lending a hel ... More >>

Top five most shocking food facts from Food, Inc.

Do you know where your cluck comes from? ​Following a recent birthday barbecue feast, I woke up before the sun with a wretched bellyache and proceeded to hurl my guts out. Nothing reminds you that you aren't 21 anymore like puking bacon cheeseburgers and red wine and going up against a hangove ... More >>

Before you take another bite of beef steak fritter...

The USDA recently recalled almost 111,000 pounds of frozen beef steak fritter due to the risk of small pieces of plastic that may be in the food. That's all well and good and nice to know the USDA has our back, but what in the hell is a beef steak fritter?Moo.​ Maybe it's a regional thing or ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Trade Kenyon Martin for Shaquille O'Neal? Are you kidding?

I'd rather have Ben Stein suit up for the Nuggets than Shaq.​Colorado blogs that fulfill the USDA recommended amount of cyber. Andrew Feinstein at Denver Stiffs floats the possibility of the Nuggets trading Kenyon Martin for Shaquille O'Neal, who's dragged down both Phoenix and Cleveland in r ... More >>

Feds put $40 million hit out on bark beetles

The $40 million bug...​Yesterday, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced that the federal government would devote $40 million to dealing with the bark-beetle problem that's turned wooded areas in Colorado and other western states from green to brown. Governor Bill Ritter, who wrote a ... More >>

What's the difference between parsley and pot? Grant money!

​Blackberries and beets are on the list. So are horseradish, hops and horehound. Even wasabi, wormwood and watermelon are eligible to receive money under the Colorado Department of Agriculture's Specialty Crops Block Grant Program. Marijuana? Sorry, says agriculture department spokeswoman Ch ... More >>

What's the difference between pot and parsley?

​Blackberries and beets are on the list. So are horseradish, hops and horehound. Even wasabi, wormwood and watermelon are eligible to receive money under the Colorado Department of Agriculture's Specialty Crops Block Grant Program. But marijuana? Sorry, says agriculture spokeswoman Christi L ... More >>

Can we afford to get Mexicans out of the kitchen?

​Blackberries and beets are on the list. So are horseradish, hops and horehound. Even wasabi, wormwood and watermelon are eligible to receive money under the Colorado Department of Agriculture's Specialty Crops Block Grant Program. But marijuana? Sorry, says agriculture spokeswoman Christi L ... More >>

Season's eatings: The Boulder Farmers' Market opens for 2010

​Blackberries and beets are on the list. So are horseradish, hops and horehound. Even wasabi, wormwood and watermelon are eligible to receive money under the Colorado Department of Agriculture's Specialty Crops Block Grant Program. But marijuana? Sorry, says agriculture spokeswoman Christi L ... More >>

Elway's Downtown: Not just for steak and seafood

​Elway's Downtown might not be the first restaurant that comes to mind when you start thinking of veggie-friendly options. First of all, the Elway's brand has always been more about steak and seafood than tofu and Bibb lettuce -- but I was pleasantly surprised when I sat down for lunch the oth ... More >>

Blech! Five worst foodborne illness outbreaks in recent U.S history

A Flickr photo​In July, up to two dozen people contracted salmonella after dining at The Fort in Morrison. The likely culprit? Rattlesnake cakes -- specifically, the presence of uncooked eggs in the dish, which has since been removed from the menu. Seems that Montezuma doesn't discriminate be ... More >>

Pat Boone pounds his All-American meats for conservative causes

patboonemeats.com launches November 1, so this photo will have to do for now, Boone fans.​Pat Boone, that icon of pure American goodness, has partnered up with a Colorado Springs company on a line of Pat Boone All-American Meats and will start selling his "delicious, tender, juicy, USDA, hand- ... More >>

Nick Sculac: Serenity Springs tiger sanctuary operator scammed $40,000 from volunteer

​There's more than one way to get mauled at a big-cat sanctuary. After he was attacked by a tiger at the Serenity Springs Wildlife Center last year, a volunteer then had the bite put on him by the refuge's founder -- who claimed that the victim had to pay $40,500 as his "share" of the result ... More >>

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 >>

Where's the beef? Taco Bell sued for putting too little meat in its "meat"

​Where's the beef? Not in the Taco Bell tacos. At least not according to Beasley Allen, an Alabama-based law firm that has filed a class-action lawsuit against Taco Bell for misleading advertising. Its beef is the beef, or lack thereof: Allegedly, the taco filling has only 36 percent animal p ... More >>

New study says junk food makes you dumb as well as fat

Lay off the junk​Hot on the heels of the new USDA nutrition guidelines, which basically boil down to "lay off the calories, fatty, and consume a vegetable once in a while," comes a study that gives you more incentive to eat right: Junk food doesn't just cause you to gain weight; it also make ... More >>

Diana DeGette and Henry Waxman request listeria outbreak investigation

​U.S. Representative Diana DeGette didn't just fall off the turnip truck. She's been concerned about food safety throughout her tenure in Congress, and yesterday, she and California Representative Henry Waxman sent a letter demanding a full investigation into the listeria contamination that's ... More >>

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:

End of a ban on slaughterhouse inspections could have gourmands horsing around

​Former Westword critic Jason Sheehan was interested in trying horsemeat, "considered a staple in France, a delicacy in Japan and a treat among Italian, Dutch and Belgians." But he couldn't find a source in this country -- and then in 2006, Congress banned funding of horse-meat inspections, es ... More >>

Top five food resolutions you should make -- and keep -- for 2012

​It's a new year, and 2012 should be another rich, full year of food, drink and, with any luck, a few more naked photos of Anthony Bourdain. It's time to kick 2011 in the gnocchi and usher in a brand-new 365 days of fresh foodie resolutions. We all know that willpower can wane with the firs ... More >>