Bill St. John
Bill St. John has written and taught about restaurants, food, cooking and wine for more than 40 years, locally for Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post and KCNC-TV Channel 4, nationally for Chicago Tribune Newspapers and Wine & Spirits magazine. The Denver native lives in his hometown.
Contact Bill St. John at bsjpost@gmail.com.
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How to cook grilled pork shoulder two ways
Such is the case with pork shoulder, an inexpensive part of the pig due to its varied musculature, ample fat and copious connective tissue. But therein lies its deliciousness: with...

Two summer salad recipes to keep you cool and refreshed
Here are recipes for two summer salads that both nourish and refresh. The first is a tabbouleh from chef Alon Shaya, who helms the wildly popular Denver restaurant Safta. The...

Remember that famous Spring Fling cake? You can buy it again in Denver
Craving The Market's Spring Fling Cake? The former head baker is offering the fan favorite at his new bakery.

How to use saffron, the rarest and costliest of spices, in dessert
Saffron, indisputably and for centuries the globe’s dearest flavoring, begins all its measurements in grams.

Easy sauce recipes for summer meals
Here are short recipes for four sauces that beat the heat in summertime and that pour in from around the globe.

How to choose the right EVOO
Like most of us cooks, your pantry or refrigerator holds three different hot sauces, a couple of types of mustard, two or three sundry salad dressings and some kind of...

On Father’s Day, we hope our children will remember our good moments – but itap not up to us
Trying to make "cents" of fatherhood isn't always easy.

How to cook with tinned fish, a luxurious ingredient even on a budget
Travel, wrote Francis Bacon, the 16th-century essayist, is a form of education. “They who travel into a country, before some entrance into the language,” he wrote, “go to school.”

How to soak, brine and (safely) eat lupini beans
You cannot eat the lupine’s legume raw; it is overpoweringly bitter, even acrid, and toxic. So here's how to prepare them correctly.

How to cook chard, a veggie of many colors, three ways this summer
No one is quite sure why the leafy green is called “Swiss” chard, mainly by speakers of English only. Other languages and peoples call it merely “chard” or prefix that...