Food - The Durango Herald

Forget the chocolate: Advent calendars go for booze, cheese

NEW YORK – Advent calendars are hitting the bottle. The cardboard calendars, typically filled with chocolates, are now being stuffed with cans of beer and bottles of wine. Others ...

DATE: Dec 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Make a sweet bread that requires you eat it with your hands

Monkey bread is a knotty-looking loaf of sweet bread made from balls of dough coated with cinnamon, sugar and melted butter. It’s traditionally served warm so that the sticky baked pieces ca...

DATE: Nov 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Fiber: The first step to preventing diabetes

November is National Diabetes Prevention Month. When we talk about diabetes prevention, we are talking about Type 2 Diabetes. Individuals with Type 1 are born with it. According to the Cente...

DATE: Nov 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Healthy food options in Gem Village, one night a week

Area chefs team up to offer Tuesday night take-home service

DATE: Nov 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Easy as pie (easier!), and oh soba good

Here’s a way to transform soba noodles that’s so good and easy you don’t need to wait until you have leftovers to make it. It’s a simple idea, based on spaghetti pie or pasta frit...

DATE: Nov 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Tips for an easy, appetizing Thanksgiving feast

Durango-area cooks share their Turkey Day secrets

DATE: Nov 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Late-night food options few and far between in Durango

As darkness descends, Durango’s food scene dries up

DATE: Nov 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Nuts bring the heat and the sweet

These scrumptious nuts, glazed with maple syrup and seasoned lightly with warming hints of cinnamon and cayenne, are practically effortless to make. They have the seemingly magic power of el...

DATE: Nov 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Give your Thanksgiving green beans something beyond the casserole treatment

Green beans seem to take on a new, inclusive holiday identity when they’re cut in this Indian-inspired style (a la Beans Thoran recipes of Kerala) and flavored with mustard seed and fresh gi...

DATE: Nov 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Rules lack teeth for defining a ‘healthy snack’

While shopping at Walmart, I saw something weird: One of the aisles had an overhead sign touting “Healthy Snacks,” however, the “healthy” items on the shelves were anything but. We’re talkin...

DATE: Nov 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Thanksgiving turkey can be as simple as rub and roast

Just rub the bird with oil, this simple dried seasoning blend and roast it: What you get is a nicely browned turkey and pan juices that are flavorful enough to serve on their own. ...

DATE: Nov 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Spice, condiment shop Durango Artisan Foods warms up winter

Former engineer creates flavors ‘scientifically, methodically’

DATE: Nov 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday