Saturday, March 13, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., online
Visit Lindita’s Kitchen and learn how to make arroz con pollo. Lindita is an iconic Denver businesswoman and founder of Lindita’s Inc. Salsa and Spices. She grew up as a migrant farmworker, and today is the host of
Lindita’s Kitchen Cooking Show, as well as a cookbook author, chef and cooking instructor who brings passion and zest to showcasing traditional Mexican food. This free program is part of the Saturday Series with CHAC, and is hosted by Chicano Humanities and Arts Council, Colorado Folk Arts Council and Metro State University Chicana/o Studies Journey Through Our Heritage. Find out more here.
Join Rocky Mountain Public Media and Opera Colorado for a double-bill virtual concert featuring Tom Cipullo’s
Josephine and
The Promise of Living, followed by a talkback hosted by Keo Frazier with starring performers Laquita Mitchell and Nmon Ford, as well as choreographer Terrell Davis. Josephine, a one-act opera, shines a spotlight on jazz-age icon and civil rights activist Josephine Baker.
The Promise of Living takes audiences on a journey through American history that highlights the challenges, opportunities and successes of the Black experience. The program is free, but register in advance here. Thursday, March 11, 6 p.m., online Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo will read Laura Peniche’s story about reaching out to fellow Christians to discuss her understanding of Jesus’s teachings on mercy, as well as his commandment that “you love one another just as I have loved you.” The free program weaves in the music of Uruguayan musician Elisa Garcia and the stori
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In the 2014 film
What If, two twenty-something hipsters in Toronto start talking about a sandwich that was created in Denver almost forty years ago, when the Colorado Mine Company was the hottest restaurant in Glendale, beloved by athletes, cops.and Elvis. According to legend, the gargantuan Fool s Gold Loaf was cooked up one night in 1976 when the King was in town for a concert and hungry; he d later send his plane in to pick up an order.
If you want to re-create this indelicate delicacy at home, it s basically a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with bacon, made with two tablespoons of margarine, one loaf of French bread, one pound of bacon, one jar of peanut butter and one jar of grape jelly. You take the bread, bathe it in butter on all sides, bake it, gut it and then fill the inside with peanut butter and jelly and bacon, sans grease, which you absorb by placing it between two paper towels.
If this were a normal year, we’d just be pushing back from the table after the ten-day eating orgy that is usually Denver Restaurant Week. But this isn’t any normal year.
On March 5, 2020, five days after the finale of last year’s Denver Restaurant Week the sixteenth annual celebration of the city’s culinary scene designed to coincide with a slow time of year for restaurants Colorado registered its first COVID-19 case. By March 17, all restaurants across the state had been ordered closed for anything other than takeout and delivery. In late May, most were able to reopen their dining rooms at very limited capacity levels, but it’s been a tough, tough time for the dining industry.