Karlos Baca Forages for a Forgotten Paradigm

Rachel Turiel

Karlos Baca has given up wheat, dairy, sugar, pork, chicken, beef, and misleading labels. For instance, Indian doesn’t fit (he’s not from India), nor does Nativ...

Best Roasted Tomato Sauce

Rachel Turiel

This is the very best recipe you can make with tomatoes, objectively speaking. It elevates a tomato to its sweetest, richest form and preserves it for the darke...

How to Grow a Tomato at Altitude

Rachel Turiel

I wish I were more casual about tomatoes, more like, “Oh, tomatoes? Yeah, sometimes they all ripen, sometimes not, no biggie.” And then I’d skip off to do somet...

The Great (local) Dog Biscuit Challenge

Rachel Turiel

You may think Colorado mountain-town dogs already live the good life. You’ve seen them gallop down ski trails in winter, possibly in Gore-Tex booties. In summer...

Requiem for a Squirrel

Rachel Turiel

It’s winter 2009. The recession has sent its hungry tendrils into every economic crevice, including my husband’s and my freelance work in carpentry and writi...

Bone Broth. Nature’s Multi-Vitamin

Rachel Turiel

Making your first batch of bone broth may conjure images of Wilma Flintstone hacking apart a brontosaurus while a cauldron of water bubbles over the hearth. The...

Creamy Swiss Chard Dip

Rachel Turiel

This is a cooked dip, and a great way to use up the acres of chard you receive weekly from your friendly CSA without it actually tasting like you’re eating a me...

Eat this. Don’t eat that.

Rachel Turiel

Photos by Bonni Pacheco In the late 1990s, I spent many summer nights in the backcountry listening to a camp stove sputter its particular acoustics of whoo...

Stop Buying and Start Making: Vanilla Extract

Rachel Turiel

Perhaps we all remember our squat-limbed younger selves balanced on a stool, uncapping a bottle of our mother’s vanilla extract. Inhaling the mysterious and int...

Modern-Day Artemis, Part II

Rachel Turiel

  There are realities about standing over an animal, newly dead, that I am not prepared for. First, to call that bull elk, slumped and emptied of breath...

Modern-Day Artemis

Rachel Turiel

By Rachel Turiel This idea blossomed much like many wayward marital brainchildren: my husband cajoled; I laughed and blew him off. The cajoling continued for...

The Gravity of Our Own Kitchens

Rachel Turiel

It happens like this. My family and I are innocently eating something produced and packaged by others – mayonnaise, marshmallows, pricey squares of toasted wasa...