Food

Food truck owner aims to extend stay

City weighs permit extension for Mariana’s Authentic Cuisine

You can’t beat the freshness

Lucas Manymules, 5, takes a big bite of Harvest Stew at Wednesday during lunch at Needham Elementary as the school celebrates Colorado Proud Meal Day. The stew is made up…

Hatching chiles in Durango since 1991

Chocolate cake may be good for the ticker

A new study published this week in the journal Heart reports people who ate 15 to 100 grams of chocolate a day in the form of everything from Mars bars…

Delicious graduation

2nd graduating class shows what they’ve learned from its culinary curriculum

Hail or assail kale? Debate rages on bumpers, in kitchens

A bumper sticker calls for curbs on the now-ubiquitous, green, leafy vegetable.Special to the Herald/J.J. Kale Kale has taken the food world by storm as a vitamin-packed super food. Everywhere…

A beefed-up market

Ranchers benefitting from higher prices, higher demand, but consumers must pay up

Homegrown food for the Durango Farmers Market

Local edible extravaganza to begin its 19th season

Just sailing along

Tailwind Nutrition offers endurance-activity fuels

Local food co-op will remain independent

Merger with La Montañita of N.M. is ‘off the table’

The future of agriculture appears dry

175 gather to discuss water

No low-cost fast food? No problem

High school students help lure Subway into town

Schlotzsky’s-Cinnabon coming downtown

Sandwich shop to open Feb. 12

Getting more for Manna

Quality donations provide quality food at soup kitchen

Schools work on food waste

Durango school district making effort to curb students from throwing away uneaten food

This could be a new paradigm for groceries

Food hubs link consumers with locally farmed food

$97,683 grant to help schools with local foods

Kids learn about farms, economy

Food giants spend millions to take on GMO labeling

But on one particular issue, the campaign ads are entirely lopsided. Labeling genetically modified food, commonly called GMOs – meaning “genetically modified organisms” – is on the ballot, and has…

Proposition 105 looks at labeling genetically modified food

Proponents paint Proposition 105 as providing consumers with choice. “Don’t we have a right to know what’s in our food?” asked Larry Cooper, a backer of the Right to Know…

A very good year

Local winemakers expect great results from 2014 harvest

Chow down on pies with neighbors

Ohana Kuleana hosts first pie contest

Foods co-op names its general manager

Afternoon shoppers browse through the Durango Natural Food’s deli.Durango Herald File photograph Gaddy until recently was co-general manager. Gaddy, a 2000 graduate of Fort Lewis College with a degree in…

Extra produce needed for hungry

The food will go to families in need. Volunteers are needed to collect, wash and bag produce on the same days at the same time. Volunteers may contact Celeste Greene…

Co-op members want new board

Recent merger talks leave bitter taste

Rooting for a farm business

Hesperus farmers highlight Denver luncheon

Natural Foods merger nixed

New Mexico partner no longer interested

Durango Natural Foods pondering a merger

Co-op members talk about possibly linking with larger N.M. co-op

Local natural-food co-op no more?

Durango Natural Foods, group based in N.M. may hook up

Montezuma County co-op is blossoming

Southwest Farm Fresh looking to step up distribution for harvest

As these grocery stores wither and die, towns’ citizens struggle

Eastern Plains officials look to future after rural supermarkets close their doors