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[click "Play" to hear Chef Richard Chen on the Telluride Wine Festival]

Chef Richard Chen - Wing Lei photo by Barbara Kraft

Forget what you remember about the Chinese food from your childhood when superstar chef Richard Chen comes to town for the 28th annual Telluride Wine Festival. We are not talking about Moo goo gai anything. We are talking strictly uptown: "Reverse fusion." Chef Chen's food is French-influenced Shanghai, a mix of Shanghai, Cantonese, and Szechwan cuisines. His restaurant, Wing Lei at The Wynn, Las Vegas, is the only Chinese eatery in North America to have earned a Michelin star and the AAA Four Diamond award, also in 2008.

Cooking is in Chef Chen's  DNA. He began his career at the age of seven, working in his parents’ restaurant in his native Taiwan, and continued to work in their kitchen after the family established a restaurant in suburban Chicago.

23 June, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Bouqion interview]

Bertrand New 1-07dCopy You may hear unfamiliar murmurings on the streets of Telluride this weekend. The conversation won't be about dogs on sacred tracts of land or the local economy.
The talk may be about "terroir" versus technology. This weekend is all about drinking wine, consuming copious amounts of fabulous food. It is the 28th annual Telluride Wine Festival.

The French word “terroir,” from a Latin root meaning “earth,” describes the relationship between a given wine and the place that wine comes from. The ongoing debate in the wine world about “terroir” versus technology asks the question: Is wine about some place or about the expertise of someone, aided by technology? At its heart, however, the debate is all about the Old World, meaning primarily France, telling the New World, meaning places like Napa, it’s all about the land stupid: We have had it for centuries. You are upstarts.

22 June, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Kristin Holbrook on scarves]
IMG_1565 It's Friday in Telluride, the end of the week, a great day to tie one on. But I am not talking about bending the elbow at a favorite watering hole. I am talking about scarves.

According to Telluride Inside and Out's fashion expert, Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts, scarves, classically associated with cold weather, are, the hottest summer fashion accessory and about as glam as it gets. Think anew Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Sarah Jessica Parker (aka. Carrie) in "Sex and the City."

More recently, Jennifer Aniston was photographed on the set of her lastest movie, "the baster," wearing a cashmere silk number by faliero sarti. Other A-list actors and models, including Halle Berry, Reese Witherspoon and Heidi Klum, are similarly all wrapped up.

19 June, 2009 /

[click to hear Dr. Ptak speak about skin rejuvenation] Obama's stimulus package is meant to address our sagging economy. Telluride's Dr. Jeff Ptak, a board certified plastic surgeon with a private practice in town, has a stimulus package of his own to address your sagging...

19 June, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Chris' interview]
Chris Szymberski One of the early signs of summer in the Telluride region is the truckloads of fresh fruits, vegetables, flowers, meats, fish, and crafts and more to market every Friday.

The Telluride Farmers' Market opened last weekend, June 12.  Now in its seventh year, the Market on South Oak Street features about 40 vendors coming from a 100-mile radius with their wares. They will be manning their booths through October.

Chris Szymberski manages the Telluride Farmers' Market – and he comes by his Carhartts naturally.

18 June, 2009 /

The weather was cool and cloudy in Telluride on Friday for the first Farmers' Market of the season. That didn't stop locals and visitors from going from stall to stall, selecting the early season offerings, chatting with the producers, chatting with friends encountered along...

12 June, 2009 /
[click "Play" for Kristin Holbrook interview]

Intro:

IMG_1550 Who needs Andre Leon Talley when Telluride has Kristin Holbrook, fashionista/co-owner of local fashion emporium Two Skirts?

Kristin is a New Jersey native and graduate of the University of Virginia in English and Art History. After college, she spent three years teaching skiing in Vail, where she met her future husband Kevin, a broker at Peaks Realty. A year later, she moved to town. Within two years, in 2001, Kristin and Joanne Corzine had opened their store on Main Street, 127 West Colorado Avenue.

Two Skirts features fashion classics and the latest and greatest from New York – but only trends immune to altitude sickness.

Kristin will be posting a regular column for "Telluride Inside...and Out," "Fashion Friday."

12 June, 2009 /

It's been a stormy several days in Telluride, but that hasn't stopped a contingent of wounded vets from enjoying a busy schedule of activities with TASP. Participants from all over the country did some rock climbing, biking, jeeping, horseback riding, rafting and generally digging...

10 June, 2009 /

In addition to the Friday farmers' market in Telluride, there is a Saturday market in Norwood from now until October 10. Local producers and artisans are featured from 9am until 1pm at the San Miguel County Fairgrounds in Norwood. For more information on the...

09 June, 2009 /

[Click the Play button to hear interview with Tony Daranyi]

IMG_2756 The annual Telluride Farmers' Market is part of the change we can stomach.

Now in its seventh year, the Telluride Farmers' Market  features over 60 vendors, coming from a 100-mile radius to bring fruits, vegetables, flowers, meats, fish, and crafts to town every Friday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., June – October.

Over Memorial weekend, Telluride Mountainfilm hosted a symposium on food, and  screened the film "Food, Inc." The eat-your-brocolli message became clear: food does not come from shelves. Most of what Americans eat is supplied by agro-businesses that are no longer sustainable, but are government subsidized nevertheless. Small farms are not subsidized, but they are way more productive, netting, on average, $1,400 per acre versus $39 per acre for a farm of about 1,400 acres. Because they are so much less productive, larger farms need to pump their numbers through cost-cutting measures that translate into abuse for farm animals and mass distribution that abuses our environment.

09 June, 2009 /