Cookbooks

Revised and updated for 2009.

The Rocky Mountain News started the column “Recipe Please” in 1998 as a forum for readers to request their favorite restaurant recipes. The column was so popular that in 2004, Recipe Please, the cookbook, became a reality. Three printings, five years, and a few hundred “Recipe Please” columns later, it was clearly time for a new edition. This time around the author assembles not only new recipes from the more recent columns, but also some of those “don’t miss” recipes from the first edition. In addition, Marty includes some of the recipes from local chefs that have become her personal favorites in her almost thirty years at the News.

Click here to see a sample of the amazing recipes in the cookbook.

Since 1979 the Fawn Brook Inn and the Groicher family have been known not only for Hermann's fine food but also for their hospitality. The restaurant thrives with a clientele that comes from all over the world to enjoy the magical experience of dining at the Fawn Brook Inn—the quaint log cabin nestled in the town of Allenspark, Colorado, surrounded by the beautiful Rocky Mountains. It has become not only a place for far away visitors but for the local residents as well. It hosts an annual Christmas Eve banquet, charity dinners, family celebrations, and engagements. It is a destination for annual anniversary and birthday dinners, and is a much-anticipated occasion for customers and friends. The Fawn Brook Inn is a destination where everyone who visits immediately feels like family.

But if you don't get the chance to dine at this 5-Star Restaurant, you can still enjoy the delicious food with this invaluable cookbook, which includes hundreds of Hermann's delicious recipes—from soups to sauces to cherry strudel to Black Forest Beef Rouladen. It also has great cooking tips, instructions for high-altitude cooking, how to handle fruits and vegetables, how to use herbs and spices, and even how to build a ginger-bread house!