Rick Scibelli

The Toll of Thanksgiving (or, The Turkey Leg Thrower)

Nothing exposes every bad choice every member of your bloodline has ever made like Thanksgiving day. Take the one where my newly-divorced mother’s brand new m...

The Town Mill

Rick Scibelli

One late December evening in 1949 in Cortez, Colorado, the Wark flour mill burned to the ground. Within eight months, the Wark family had it rebuilt and back in...

I Can’t Grow Squat

Rick Scibelli

I have never had success gardening. With the exception of a few tomatoes (literally a total of three over the past several years) that appeared to be of the ‘su...

A Paradigm Shift at The Fountains

Rick Scibelli

Chris White is alone on the dormant lawn of The Fountains, adding fist-sized chunks of wet pecan wood to a sooty smoker. Tomorrow is rib day at the senior livin...

Editor’s Letter, Spring 2017

Rick Scibelli

My eighty-year-old mother is dwarfed by our kitchen table as she half-heartedly peruses a laminated food menu. It is from the senior living apartments across t...

This Point until Tomorrow

Rick Scibelli

The following project took on several iterations. The original idea was to interview kitchen workers. The back of the house – dishwashers, prep cooks, the line....

Editor’s Letter Winter 2017

Rick Scibelli

Some three hundred miles offshore and three more above the Atlantic floor, I hear a dog barking out somewhere on the moonless November water. Every night, I a...

The Ute Coffee Shop Never Changes

Rick Scibelli

At the Ute Coffee Shop in Cortez, Colorado, it is apparent that the regulars don’t exactly trust me. “What magazine?” one says. “This magazin...

The Trout are Waiting for You. (or, how to fly fish)

Rick Scibelli

It may seem that the sport of fly-fishing is one of those private clubs of which you have quietly concluded you will never be a member. We have all stood at the...

Editors Letter Spring 2016

Rick Scibelli

For those of you who are faithful readers of this magazine, it may seem evident that we avoid politics or anything hinting at activism. This is because I dislik...

Editors Letter, Winter 2016

Rick Scibelli

Winter lends itself to reevaluation. The short days tweak moods with weak light. The low-hanging sun asks, “when I am back, what will we do? Where will we go? A...

Editors Letter Fall 2015

Rick Scibelli

In this somewhat meat-centric issue of Edible SWC, I have been thinking about my uber-ethical foodie friend who refuses to eat so much as a cheese puff if it co...