Lifestyle

by Lisa Barlow

Oysters It’s Valentine’s Day and while you may be content to buy your love a pretty box of chocolates, there are a host of other foods that can convey your message more effectively.

Since ancient times clever cooks have concocted seductive recipes to tempt their paramours and the list of edible aphrodisiacs they have come up with is long and varied. Some foods merely look suggestive. Others have been clinically proven to help get the job done.

In the first category, bananas top the list. Mae West’s famous query says it all: Is that a banana in your pocket …or are you happy to see me? Asparagus and carrots, like figs and cherries, also arouse some fertile imaginations. But then just about anything can excite some folks. In her book Aphrodite, A Memoir of the Senses, Author Isabel Allende says she tested her recipes on friends over 40 “since even a cup of chamomile turns on the young.”

The team negotiates with the village of Jomsom in Nepal only to find thier world of oppurtunity getting smaller. Ben Clark devises a plan, unwilling to give up. Follow Clark and teammate Jon Miller as they share the experience reviewing the film footage and often...

[click "Play" to hear this week's conversation with Ashley Deppen]   Color associations may vary within a culture at different periods and between cultures across the globe. But the facts are indisputable: colors convey emotions. Telluride is a colorful town. So and so is...

 Students from the 2010 Snowshoe Overnight brave the elements at 11,000 Ft. February 10, 2011 Telluride Institute's Watershed Education Program (WEP) is launching the first annual Nucla Middle School Snowshoe Overnight this week from February 10th to 11th!  WEP will be conducting this program in...

by Lisa Barlow

Bean Chili use Hey Super Bowl fans, what are you planning to eat during the Big Game? Mac ‘n Cheese Jalapeno Poppers? Mile High Nachos? Grilled BBQ Potato Skins? Smokin’ Hot Buffalo Wings?

Football and food seem to go together so inextricably that even a fair weather fan like myself knows that I need get my game on in the kitchen this Sunday. And there is plenty of inspiration out there to help me plan my menu. Every celebrity chef with a TV show seems to have weighed in with his or her variation of a classic gridiron favorite. 

The statisticians are busy thinking about Super Bowl fare as well. But their numbers have often been a little wonky. It is probably closer to 8 million pounds of avocados used to make guacamole this weekend than the 80 million that is often reported. That’s still an awful lot of chip dip.

[click "Play", Pip talks about what to wear to the "Fling"]

 

IMG_0820 Fashion Friday is a regular weekly column identifying fashion trends and translating them into Telluride style with help from our fabulous fashionistas at Two Skirts. This week, however, is an exception.

Two Skirts owner, Kristin Holbrook, is a longtime supporter of the San Miguel Resource Center, the Telluride's region's only nonprofit working with victims of the the grave challenges of interpersonal violence. On Saturday, February 5, Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village, 7:30 – 11:30 p.m.. the Resource Center hosts its only major public fundraiser. The 2011 theme is "Heroes and Villains," and there are prizes for best costume.

In support of the event, one of the best parties of the winter season, Kristin and Ashley Deppen have turned over their regular Fashion Friday interview to our town's vintage/costume queen, Pip Kenworthy of Pip's Fine & Funky Consignments,100 West Colorado (downstairs from Overland).

Just an FYI: If you are skiing in Telluride this week, be alert for the "Wild Bunch"- wheelchair athletes, people with vision impairment, skiers missing a limb or two. You'll find them on Chair 9, dropping in on La Rosa, any bump run. They...

[click "Play" to hear Ashley Deppen talk about Cynthia Vincent's designs] Last week it was cashmere queen Minnie Rose. This week for Fashion Friday, Telluride's Two Skirts is focusing on accessories by Los Angeles designer Cynthia Vincent: her 2011 line of Spring shoes...