Cowboy up for some wild West eating

The National Western Stock Show has doubled your drinking pleasure this year. Not only has the Cowboy Bar -- the temporary saloon set up in the basement of the Hall of Education, right by the stalls where bulls are groomed -- expanded, adding more than a dozen seats and space...

By Patricia Calhoun

January 18, 2010

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The National Western Stock Show has doubled your drinking pleasure this year. Not only has the Cowboy Bar -- the temporary saloon set up in the basement of the Hall of Education, right by the stalls where bulls are groomed -- expanded, adding more than a dozen seats and space for an impromptu dance floor, but the Stock Show has launched a second bar.

This one, called the Tack Room Bar, is located in the basement of the Expo Hall/Events Center and, like the Cowboy Bar, is open as long as there are customers around. Also like the Cowboy Bar, which just offers peanuts, it's food-impaired -- but the Sirloin Hut and pork-chop-on-a-stick booth are just outside the door.

Make sure to grab a piece of pork before today's Colorado State University Seminar, set for 3 p.m. in the Beef Palace Auction Arena in the Hall of Education. The series of hour-long lectures, new this year, are all free.

Better grab a beer, too. Because Laura Bauer, assistant director of the CSU Nutrition Center, will be discussing "The Wild West Diet for Today, While Eating What You Like." According to Jim Beers, a CSU spokesman, "She'll be taking what you might consider a traditional Wild West diet -- meat and potatoes, beans -- and showing how to make it more healthy for today's lifestyle."

Hold the peanuts.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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