Summer Reading Week 1
Because one of the best parts of traveling is discovering new and wonderful food and drink, we're kicking off our travel-themed program with a cuisine theme. Read any book with a cooking, restaurant, or other food-related theme, or answer the trivia question:

What is the name of a Colorado winery in the Palisades?

You might find information to help answer this question in the Vertical File, which is located in the large black file cabinet next to the Colorado Collection. The Vertical File contains a wide variety of materials that are updated too frequently to catalog, small items, quick facts, and other useful materials. Find everything from the name and address of your local state legislator to American Diabetes Association health factsheets to FAFSA applications to tourism brochures.

To find out more about vineyards, wine tasting events, winemaking, and other related topics, take a look at the links below:

The Colorado Wine Board has an excellent collection of information, including printable maps of wineries, a historic timeline of the wine industry in Colorado, a comprehensive list of wineries, and tips and recipes for grape growing and cooking with wine.

The Colorado Winefest, from September 14 to 17 in and around Grand Junction, is The Event for wine lovers in Colorado. Find out about the event, the wineries, and the sponsors.

There's a pretty technical but interesting discussion about the quality of Colorado wines on Stephen Reiss' Aspen-based wine blog.

Are you thinking about trying your hand at making your own wine? My favorite almost-local brewing supply stores are Old West Homebrew in Colorado Springs and The Brew Hut in Aurora. Beer At Home, another Denver-area brewing store, has links to more brewers' supply stores around the state.

There's more to the Grand Juction/Palisades/Glenwood Springs area than vineyards, though. The Western Colorado Museum has a great history of Palisade. Western Style Magazine has a nice community profile on Palisade, as well as on Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs. And the Palisade Chamber of Commerce has links to vineyards, orchards, hotels, and restaurants in the area.

Finally, some reading suggestions to help you get started:

Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child / Noel Riley Fitch 641.5 Fit
Blackberry Wine / Joanne Harris F Har
The Callahan Chronicles / Spider Robinson SCI Rob
Catering to Nobody / Diane Mott Davidson MYS Dav
Dark Tort / Diane Mott Davidson MYS Dav
(and other Goldy Bear novels)
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder / Joanne Fluke MYS Flu and AC Flu
Cherry Cheesecake Murder / Joanne Fluke MYS Flu and AC Flu
(and other Hannah Swenson novels)
Chocolat / Joanne Harris F Har
Colorado: A Liquid History and Tavern Guide to the Highest State / Thomas J. Noel CC 647.95788 Noe
Don’t Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America / Morgan Spurlock 614.593 Spu
Five Quarters of the Orange / Joanne Harris F Har
French Women Don’t Get Fat / Mirielle Giuliano 613.2 Giu
Fried Chicken: An American Story / John T. Edge 641.6 Edg
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café / Fannie Flagg F Fla
The Guide to Colorado Wineries / Alta and Brad Smith CC 641.2 Smi
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen / Julie Powell 641.5 Pow
Keeping the Moon / Sarah Dessen YAF Des
Much Depends on Dinner: the extraordinary history and mythology, allure and obsessions, perils and taboos, of an ordinary meal / Margaret Visser 394.1 Vis
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals / Michael Pollan NEW 394.5 Pol
Secrets of the Tsil Café / Thomas Fox Averil F Ave
Sideways / Rex Pickett LPF Pic
Six Thousand Years of Bread / Heinrich Jacob 909 Jac
The Summer of My Greek Taverna / Tom Stone 913.8 Sto
Like Water for Chocolate / Laura Esquivel F Esq and AC Esq
A Year in the World / Frances Mayes NEW 914.04 May

Are you hungry yet?