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This winter, just stew it

Improving a recipe that just mixes everything together

DATE: Jan 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

For Auschwitz survivor, telling her story is reason to live

NEW YORK – Bronia Brandman pulls up a sleeve on her leather jacket and shows the blue tattoo inked on her forearm that is a muted witness to her pain under the Nazis at Auschwitz. ...

DATE: Jan 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

How to use gluten-free flour blends in your everyday baking

I realize that not every recipe is for every person. Interest, diet, skill, equipment: They’re all variables that make it impossible to please everyone all the time. One of the most common q...

DATE: Jan 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Colorado Native Plant Society to host lecture on rare and endemic plants

Colorado Native Plant Society will host a lecture by Lauren Bansbach on rare and endemic plants of the San Juan Basin at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis C...

DATE: Jan 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Why classic white bread dinner rolls are suddenly trendy

In the U.S., bread sales aren’t rising the way they used to. The market in bread and bakery products is projected to grow at a dismal 1.5% from 2020 to 2023. Yet a modest dinner roll is elbo...

DATE: Jan 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Artist uses snow as canvas for massive geometrical designs

SILVERTHORNE – Simon Beck carefully plots his course before shuffling through a windswept snowfield high in the Rocky Mountains. Using a compass, snowshoes and his background as a...

DATE: Jan 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

A silent worship revival at an Episcopal church for the deaf

NEW YORK – The Lord’s Prayer ended with the bang of dozens of fists that landed on open palms after a circular motion and a thumbs up in a joint “Amen!” Not a voice could be heard...

DATE: Jan 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico expands land holdings

JEMEZ SPRINGS, N.M. – A national preserve in northern New Mexico that is sometimes referred to as the “Yellowstone of the Southwest” has added another piece of property to its land holdings ...

DATE: Jan 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Reflexology unlocks pain relief by treating nerves in the feet

Practice can provide benefits from head to toe

DATE: Jan 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Colorado Parks and Wildlife cautions anglers to avoid purchasing fishing licenses on fraudulent websites

After being alerted to a fraudulent website claiming to sell Colorado fishing licenses, Colorado Parks and Wildlife urges people to be wary of third-party sites offering deals on CPW product...

DATE: Jan 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Have it both ways for Dry January with these cocktails that shine with or without the booze

Hello, celebrants of Dry January – if “celebrants” is indeed the right term for those abstaining from drink for a month. How are you holding up? Are you counting the minutes till Feb. 1? Are...

DATE: Jan 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Brad Pitt is ‘the Laurence Olivier of eating’ on screen. Here’s why we like to watch.

Nachos, popcorn, sandwiches, dumplings, peanut butter, a possibly poisoned pot roast and rat blood. These are things Brad Pitt has ingested on screen over the course of his three-...

DATE: Jan 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food