Cuisine: Taste of the Week: A manly breakfast pie

by John Lehndorff

Taste of the Week: A manly breakfast pie

Fstopped eating egg pie. A bestselling book was published that year entitled Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche. It was a silly guide to masculine living in a world thankfully becoming progressively less macho. Manly men in France and the U.S. laughed at the silliness and kept eating well-made quiche. I’ve always loved and made quiche because, well, it’s pie for breakfast. Julien Jeannot knows real quiche. At Lafayette’s Jeannot’s Patisserie &

Bistro, the French-born pastry chef melds nutmeg-accented creamy eggs what’s not to like? Jeannot’s classic quiche Lorraine is rich and creamy, not rubbery, and baked long enough to caramelize the cheese-y top. I enjoyed a slice with a side of raspberry preserves, plus a fresh fruit and berry salad and a cup of dark-roasted coffee. The bistro’s breakfast/lunch menu also features salade Lyonnaise topped with bacon and a poached egg, croque monsieur, and a salmon English The cases are full of traditional French classics including croissant, pain What I like here is the attention to detail all around. Jeannot’s is not cheap quiche, but it’s well worth savoring.

Another Roadfood Attraction: Donut Attraction

C For decades visitors knew they were National Park entrance when they rounded a corner in Estes Park and saw the Donut Haus sign. Doughnut lovers have a new reason to smack their O U R T E SY OF DAILY DONUT lips at high altitude since The Daily Donut opened recently near the original Donut Haus location. With windows where you can view the doughnut frying, glazing and topping process, Daily Donut is far more entertaining than another Estes Park culinary attraction I visited. Beef Jerky Experience is just a whole lot of jerky hanging out. The Daily Donut was opened by the same folks who operate the You cream and coated in chocolate glaze. My favorite variety is the yeast-raised doughnut with thick maple glaze and a crown of smoky bacon pieces. The shop’s menu also features baked and fried cinnamon rolls, sticky buns, and, on the savory side, Texas kolaches and breakfast burritos.

Culinary Calendar: Take this Class

Please take this class or a similar knife skills class. It is the single best thing you can do to make food prep easier, faster, safer and more fun for the rest of your cooking life. The Knife Skills Class June 18 at Longmont’s Journey Culinary Ltd. shows you how to choose a knife, sharpen it, hold it safely and chop, dice, slice and mince (journeyculinary.com). … Slow Food Boulder County org). … The Denver Greek Festival, June 17-19, features an array of Greek foods (thegreekfestival.com). … Botanica: A Festival of Plants is June 18-19 at Lafayette’s Three Leaf Farm, with workshops about wild foods and a farm dinner (botanicafestival.com).

Send information about Boulder County and Colorado food and drink events, classes, festivals, farm dinners, farm stands and tastings to: nibbles@boulderweekly.com.

It was hot and humid, like most June afternoons in Buriram, Thailand. A crowd of over a hundred had gathered in the northern province for a small fair and exhibition, presided over by the nation’s health minister, Anutin Charnvirakul—who was handing out seedling cannabis plants with a big smile. Charnvirakul, who has largely spearheaded the Thai government’s decriminalization movement, gave out 100 free cannabis plants to Thai citizens that day, and the government plans on giving out 1 million more over the next six months. At the beginning of 2022, Thailand announced that it would be decriminalizing cannabis this year, clearing a pathway for home cultivation and entrepreneurship. “It is an opportunity for people and the state to earn income from marijuana and hemp,” Charnvirakul wrote in a social media post. “Anyone can sell it if they obey the law.” in a new era for the Land of Smiles. An era that will see

Thailand’s opportunity and tourism revenue skyrocket.

And an era that represents a second chance for thousands of people currently serving time in Thailand’s jails. Cannabis isn’t new to the Thai people or culture. It’s been part of their traditional medicine and cooking for centuries, and was only made illegal in 1935. Since then, though, the Thai government has remained fairly strict about it: If a person was caught smoking cannabis in public, they’d be handed a three-month jail sentence and However, in 2018 the nation legalized medicinal cannabis. And the levee of prohibition started to show some cracks. “This is a New Year’s gift from the National Legislative Assembly to the government and the Thai people,”

Somchai Sawangkarn, chairman of the drafting committee, said at the 2018 announcement of Thailand’s medicinal cannabis policy. Then, in January, the Thai government’s plant was coming off the prohibited drugs list sometime in 2022; people would be allowed to cultivate it at home. And just six months later country to decriminalize cannabis—beating the Under Thailand’s law, Thai citizens can grow up to six plants per-household (which can be sold to hospitals, research facilities or used in food or cosmetics). To produce more than that, a cultivation permit from the government will be required; and any cannabis businesses have to be licensed by the state. Charnvirakul told the Bangkok Post that over 700,000 applications for cannabis permits and licenses have already been submitted. “That exceeds the target,” he said. And it indicates how eager the Thai people are to start tapping into this new revenue stream. To date (10 years into recreational legalization), cannabis has made almost $13 billion dollars in Colorado alone. Just last year, the state raked in $423 million in tax and fee revenue. And every year, recreational legalization attracts millions of visitors from other states. Thailand could soon see similar explosions of wealth called a “green gold rush.” Jonathan Caulkins is an American drug policy researcher who has produced several cannabis reports for the RAND corporation looking at how legalization affects state economies and social welfare. He likens the revenue legal states make off of cannabis tourism to that of casinos in the ’80s.

Thailand’s green gold rush “Nevada had casinos then, and it was only Nevada,” he says. “And in those years you had tourists from other Thailand beats U.S. to end prohibition of cannabis, states coming in spending their money there.” decriminalize sale and cultivation, and expunge He also points out that when a legal state borders a cannabis convictions cantly more revenue, as people cross state lines to make their purchases. That applies to countries too. by Will Brendza “Thailand could draw tourists from [prohibition nations] as a place to get away from [their] own country’s rules, to indulge,” Caulkins says. Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, and Chinese all travel to Thailand in droves throughout the year, and all come from countries with standing cannabis prohibitions. While the revenue possibilities will soon make a huge difference in Thailand, the expungement aspect of this policy suffering in the county. With this announcement, some 4,000 prisoners currently serving jail-time for cannabis offenses will not only be released, but their records will be wiped clean. It’s a progressive step for a county that only recently started breaking down cannabis prohibition, and one that the U.S. could surely learn from. According to the ACLU, 40,000 Americans are currently behind bars for cannabis crimes, even though it’s been fully legalized in 19 states. Thailand has yet to set forth a comprehensive law for regulating recreational cannabis, now that it’s been decriminalized. But business owners are already taking steps to position themselves for when their parliament does. One business owner who has already started selling cannabis flowers at her shop, alongside her terpene-infused gummies, told ABC News she knows tighter regulations are coming. But for now, cannabis has “become as free as garlic [and] as chili.” Email the author at wbrendza@boulderweekly.com