Food + Beverage

Liquid Warmth, One Bowl at a Time

A Culturally Diverse Sampling of Soup Around Colorado Springs Article by Cara Bukacek Fun fact: Every culture has its own, unique soup recipe. It is a universal dish that easily incorporates various culinary traditions, regional ingredients and spices, and unique cultural expressions. Many restaurants around Colorado Springs have delicious soup offerings. This soup guide will introduce you to a sampling of the various cultures represented here in our increasingly diverse city.   Sopa de...

Beauty

Delicate Art of Perfumery

Wit & West: From Local Garden to Small-Batch Fragrances Article by Rochelle Reeder | Photography by Wit & West, Blue Sky Photography It is a labor of love. Enfleurage is a time-honored process of capturing fragrance compounds using odorless fats and then extracting that fragrance by washing the fat with alcohol to retain the fragrance. This technique became well-known in 16th century France and is effective in extracting delicate fragrance compounds and capturing the scent of a living flower...

Education

Wild Horses of the West

A Dialogue with The Cloud Foundation’s Ginger Kathrens Article by Kristian DePue | Photography by The Cloud Foundation & Ginger Kathrens Thirty years ago, Ginger Kathrens was perched on a remote spot in the Pryor Mountains, set up with a camera and a long lens that shot out like a cannon. From the corner of her eye, she noticed movement along a tree line, out of which came trotting a beautiful, feral Palomino with a newborn foal following close behind. Nearly white, Kathrens named the newborn...

Health + Wellness

"Beefing Up" for Better Health

Carnivore Trend Fueled by Pursuit of Healthy Lifestyles Article by Candace Krebs, Ranch Foods Direct | Photography by Ranch Foods Direct   It’s been over a year since Edie Cooper Willhite went on the carnivore diet, and she’s never felt better. “I’m kind of surprised that I stuck to it, but I was convinced by all the informational videos I’d seen. It made sense to me that meat was the proper human diet,” she explained. “These are real doctors, and they are seeing real results.” Most of the...