Over the past month, we asked Denver Post readers and our staff to help us come up with a list of people in Colorado who should be recognized for their extraordinary accomplishments or ideas that either occurred or came to fruition in 2013.
Click for the complete list of this year’s winners.
Food and drink
WINNER:
Delores Tronco, a street food pioneer and partner in the , which opened last month on 25th and Larimer streets in the RiNo neighborhood of Denver. Tronco left a job as a strategic communications consultant to follow her passion, forming the Justice League of Street Food. The Denver Post’s Kristen Browning-Blas says Work & Class, which was constructed from a shipping container, is “the kind of place you wish were in your neighborhood so you could eat there every week.”
HONORABLE MENTION:
Jon Emanuel, Project Angel Heart’s executive chef and independent blogger. Emanuel is founder of the and is a driving force behind at the Colorado Convention Center. In November, 40 restaurants participated in the gala to benefit Project Angel Heart, which dishes out some 1,000 meals a day at no cost to people with life-threatening illnesses.
