Lifestyle

Marinate Camembert, Czech-style, for your next low-effort snack

Nakladany Hermelin (Czech-Style Marinated Camembert).Tom McCorkle/Washington Post Though recently I’ve woken up in a panic from similar nightmares chock-full of…

January 12, 2021 • Luke Pyenson

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Food

New tipping rules will help restaurant owners and hurt workers, advocates say

On Dec. 30, the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division published its final rules on tipping, including some 11th-hour additions.…

January 9, 2021 • Tim Carman

Colorado River

Paradox Valley salt injection well could shut down

Project prevents natural salt loading in Dolores and Colorado rivers

January 9, 2021 • Jim Mimiaga

Newsletter

How St. Ignatius just might help you keep that resolution

Ignatius of Loyoia. Vintage engraving. From Popular France, 1869.Adobe Stock Almost inevitably, in a few short weeks, many find they…

January 9, 2021 • Gordon Rixon

Southwest Life

Warming already baked in to exceed climate goals, study says

A A new study says the amount of global warming already baked into the air because of past carbon pollution…

January 9, 2021 • SETH BORENSTEIN

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Briefs

Colorado Produce Safety Alliance to host on-farm composting webinar

Participants will learn how compost production and the FMSA Produce Safety Rule intersect. To register, visit us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kIWNxhKBT6eue8FR-Gl8sQ. For more information,…

January 9, 2021 • Herald Staff Writer

Food

I was an air fryer skeptic, but now it’s the only thing that gets me excited about pandemic cooking

I had resisted buying an air fryer precisely because too many friends had gushed about them with obnoxious enthusiasm. I’d…

January 6, 2021 • Cynthia R. Greenlee

Food

Why you’ll always find sweetened condensed milk in my kitchen

Thai iced tea is one of several simple creations that use sweetened condensed milk.Tom McCorkle/Washington Post The iced tea was…

January 6, 2021 • Becky Krystal

Southwest Life

Hunting tags help bring back New Mexico’s bighorn sheep

money from hunters pays for conservation programs

January 4, 2021 • MATT DAHLSEID

Southwest Life

Endangered ferrets receive experimental COVID vaccine

Colorado researchers aim to protect endangered species

January 4, 2021 • JONEL ALECCIA

Book

The best food books of 2020 that will get you thinking, not cooking

These books sometimes argue with each other, too, which only heightens the pleasure of flipping from one volume to another.…

December 31, 2020 • Tim Carman

Animas River

Five environmental issues to watch in 2021

Drought, overuse of public lands, mine cleanup top list in Southwest Colorado

December 31, 2020 • Jonathan Romeo — Staff reporter

Craft beer

Ska Brewing Co. releases dark version of a favorite beer

Brewery will alternate between Mexican Logger and Mexican Style Lager Dark

December 30, 2020 • Nick Gonzales — Staff reporter

Food

These 10 food trends were the distractions we needed in 2020

Each of the everybody’s-making-it dishes that popped up this year spoke to our hungers – for sustenance, maybe, for comfort,…

December 30, 2020 • Emily Heil

Newsletter Lead

Looking back at 2020: The year in pictures

pandemic and social protests gave us indelible images – but the year unfolded in other ways, too

December 24, 2020 • Herald Staff Report

Business (general)

Pandemic gives rise to Durango-based grazing board business

Saghie started Farm to Fingers after COVID-19 brought her home

December 23, 2020 • Nick Gonzales — Staff reporter

Food

Christmas dinner can be festive – and thrifty – with this $60 feast for four

I set myself the goal of figuring out a dinner for four that felt 100% holiday-worthy, but cost just three…

December 22, 2020 • Katie Workman

Animal

How did the warm fall impact the natural world?

Weather affects river levels, animal behavior, bird migrations, plant life

December 22, 2020 • Jonathan Romeo — Staff reporter

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Briefs

First Presbyterian Church Durango to host virtual Christmas Eve service

For the Zoom link and other options to see the service, visit www.fpcdurango.org.

December 20, 2020 • Herald Staff Writer

Southwest Life

More must be done to protect Colorado River from drought, U.S. says

An aerial view of Lake Powell on the Colorado River along the Arizona-Utah border. A set of guidelines for managing…

December 19, 2020 • Felicia Fonseca

Food

Crack open the best 2020 wine books for rich history, international politics and a vintner’s lively memoir

I was thrilled to learn this year that the Academie du Vin Library was reissuing Hugh Johnson’s seminal work, “The…

December 18, 2020 • Dave McIntyre

Food

Figs stuffed with goat cheese are the low-effort, high-flavor appetizer you need

Figs With Goat Cheese, Pistachios and Mint. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Tom McCorkle for The Washington Post.du1-i-syn That moment sealed…

December 17, 2020 • Ellie Krieger

Food

Crisp on top and cheesy throughout, this butternut squash and apple gratin belongs on your fall table

Ginger Gold is a perennial favorite, but FYI, for that teeth-pulling delight, I haven’t found an apple firmer than an…

December 16, 2020 • Joe Yonan

Food

Food giants seek ban on soy from deforested Brazil region

Soybeans are unloaded into a truck during a harvest March 7 in Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, Sao Paulo state,…

December 15, 2020 • Thomas Buckley and Agnieszka de Sousa