Food, food, food. Yak, yak, yak. You can’t turn on the radio during a Denver weekend without running into a food show. Hours and hours of them. It’s enough to make you . . . hungry?
Pat “Gabby Gourmet” Miller is the queen of this hop — on local radio for 32 years, the last 20 at KHOW-AM 630 at 1-3 p.m. Saturdays. She also publishes the popular “Gabby Gourmet Restaurant Guide,” soon to be out in its 25th edition. She writes columns for Colorado View Magazine, Colorado Expression and Out Front. And she appears on KMGH-Channel 7 during the 11 a.m. news hour Wednesdays. Although she has guests from all over, the focus is Colorado dining, often fine dining. She knows all the players — everywhere.
“The Restaurant Show” with Warren Byrne is on KEZW-AM 1430, 9-noon Saturdays and 5-7 p.m. Wednesdays. He too has been at it for 32 years. “My show is like a cocktail party on the air,” Byrne says.
Mike Boyle ran restaurants before he started talking about them 19 years ago. He has two shows in Colorado Springs and two shows here on KNUS-AM 710, 3-5 p.m. Saturdays and 10-noon Sundays. “Most of us just want a good meal and a good deal,” he says. In other words, he doesn’t want a deconstructed BLT. Last year he hosted more than 120 dinners for $7.10 for two.
Pierre Wolfe started talking food in 1958 — and he’s still talking about it on the Business Talk Radio Network, hard to find on your dial but easy to get 1-3 p.m. Sundays at .
And just back to the scene — former Tante Louise operator Corky Douglass is on 101.5 FM, 3-4 p.m. Saturdays, with “Corky’s What’s Cooking in Colorado.” No shortage of advice. Stay tuned.
Here comes the bride.
Ellen Hart Peña is engaged to longtime boyfriend Rob Woodruff. Cheers!
Ellen was married to former Denver Mayor Federico Peña, with whom she had three children. They divorced in 2001, and Federico has since married former TV exec Cindy Velasquez.
Ellen and Woodruff plan to marry in Albuquerque on Dec. 27. Ellen will take the name Ellen Woodruff Hart. Go figure.
“I’m so excited,” she told me. “He’s the love of my life. This is wonderful.”
The monkey tree.
Love is in Colorado’s thin air — at least on TV’s “The Bachelor/Bachelorette” shows.
DeAnna Pappas was the bachelorette in 2008 and chose the unlikely Breckenridge snowboarder Jesse Csincsak. The nation was stunned — but alas, the couple broke up a few months later.
Now comes news that Pappas is engaged to schoolteacher Stephen Stagliano, the twin brother of a former “Bachelorette” contestant who is also engaged to a former “Bachelor” contestant. Meanwhile, Csincsak has proposed to former “Bachelor” contestant Ann Lueders. They plan to marry in Las Vegas and return to live in Breckenridge.
City spirit.
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Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Tuesday and Friday. You can reach him at 303-954-1486 or bhusted@denverpost.com. Take a peek at Husted’s next column at blogs.denverpost .
