All it took was one sample of Eva Teague’s breakfast sausage, at the Boulder Famers Market last summer, and I suspected there was no turning back. A week later I tried her Italian sausage, and then I truly knew: I would buy sausage from Eva Teague, the owner of , and nobody else.
On the last Saturday of the market I bought a few pounds and thought: I guess I won’t be eating sausage until spring. But I was wrong. Teague now opens the doors of her Boulder County farm on Tuesdays, between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. In addition, if you want some sausage, bacon, chops or any of the other cuts from the Berkshire pigs that she raises, you can just give her a call and arrange a pick-up.
“I didn’t imagine I would own a pig farm,” said Teague, who was pursuing a PhD in English at a Connecticut university when she left East Coast academia a few years ago for Front Range farming and ranching. Last year, she raised 40 pigs. She works as a server in a fine Boulder restaurant to pay the bills, but plans to keep expanding Plowshares, with more pigs, more chickens (she will sell chicken meat in the spring), and vegetables.
If you want to try Teague’s products, call her at 720-259-1954 or go to her website, plowsharescommunity farm.com. The farm address is 8104 N. 63rd St., Longmont.
It has been quite a journey for Heather Alcott, the owner of , a Japanese-style bakery set to open this week in the Congress Park neighborhood. She had to persuade Japanese manufacturers to let her bring their unique oven to America (nobody in the United States, until Alcott, had ever before plugged-in a baum-cake oven).
She had to learn how to make the cakes, train others, find a space, and more. And then the city inspection officials and the power utility had to figure-out the unusual oven before granting it a thumbs-up. The journey, it appears, is poised to reach a new stage; Alcott said last week the bakery and cafe should open this week. The space is charming, and the cakes looks sublime. The bakery, glazebaumcakes.com, is at 1160 Madison St., 720-308-2420.
He won kudos and an award from the for a brussels sprouts dish last year, and so the organization asked chef Paul Nagan, with in Greenwood Village to host “Beaujolais Tour 2013,” a week-long celebration of fine dining. Just $50 gets you three courses — including crispy brussels sprouts with Gala apples and toasted hazelnuts (the award-winning dish) — paired with wines. The event runs nightly through Jan. 27. Make reservations now at zinkdtc.com or by calling 303-253-3517.
The chefs are different, but the concept of the Denver Five is back for its sixth season of cooking and serving. The idea: Every year, choose five chefs who represent Colorado’s food scene. They cook dinners together, including at the and, in September, at the . The hope: Help put Colorado chefs and restaurants on the national culinary map. Leigh Sullivan Enterprises, a Denver restaurant consultancy, selects the chefs each year. This year: Matt Selby, executive chef and partner at ; Kevin Morrison, owner of ; Ian Kleinman, owner of the ; Jorel Pierce, chef de cuisine and butcher at ; Sean Yontz, chef at and ; and Jonathan Greschler (formerly of Fuel, and one of last year’s “Five”), now sommelier at .
Douglas Brown: 303-954-1395, djbrown@denverpost.com or twitter.com/douglasjbrown
