Volume 6, Issue 4
January 15, 2025 - February 14, 2025
115-year-old home on Tennyson Street earns landmark status Currie/Dryer Cottage will be preserved for generations to come BY MERYL PHAIR SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
An artisan design on a product of Rebel Bread, which has been using Colorado-grown grains since at least last year. COURTESY OF EB PIX
Bakeries, breweries, Broncos: Denver is getting creative with local grains Colorado-grown, milled flours come to forefront of food scene
age as they were putting together their inventory of local grains. “We launched it (Indian Jammu) a Devin Jamroz knows there is some- month ago and we’re getting it into more thing special about the white wheat vari- chefs and baker’s hands to play with,” ety known as India Jammu that is grown Jamoz said. “It could potentially change in Colorado. the game and change the narrative The CEO of the company Dry Storage around the usability of single-varietal, in Boulder said the grain made its way to stone-milled flours because it is just so the front range after being pulled from easy to use.” a seed vault in 2020 and passed into the While Colorado is known to grow highhands of local baker Andy Clark at Moxie protein winter wheat due to the temperBread Co. in Louisville. ature fluctuation and a relatively short Clark milled some but got so excited growing season, Jamroz said more than over the bread it produced that he hand- 80% of the wheat grown in the state is ed it off to the MASA Seed Foundation in shipped elsewhere. Boulder where it wound up with several Local grains can be expensive comlocal farmers and eventually to Dry Stor- pared to commodity flour and more challenging to work with due to their unique characteristics, but the POSTAL Customer appeal of local sourcing along with PRESORTED STANDARD heightened nutrition and taste has U.S. POSTAGE been bringing regional flour back to Denver’s food scene. PAID Launched with a mission of bringDENVER, CO ing local grains back into the supply PERMIT No. 2565 EDDM chain, James Beard Award-nominatBY MERYL PHAIR SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
ed chef Kelly Whitaker and Id Est Hospitality founded Dry Storage in 2019 to create a product they were struggling to find in the local market. Following a successful trial with six local farms in the San Luis Valley, Dry Storage has partnered with local farms using regenerative and organic practices, milling their wheat and distributing the four to a growing number of regional partners, along with operating a cafe, grain mill and bakery based in Boulder. Similarly to many mass-produced staples such as coffee, modern mills can produce large quantities of commodity flour with a consistent flavor profile, enabling identical products to be created anywhere. Stone mills like the one used by Dry Storage don’t strip away as many nutrients, maintaining the grain’s unique flavor profile. “There’s an undeniable taste of Colorado,” Jamroz said. “You can tell the difference between wheat that’s been grown here and grown elsewhere.” SEE GRAINS, P8
When Daphne Salone first saw the small cottage on 4450 Tennyson St., with its blue walls and yellow-trimmed porch, she fell in love. In 2006, she purchased the Currie/Dryer Cottage and operated her accounting office out of the Berkeley Regis neighborhood before renting out the structure as a single-family home. During that time, Salone said she witnessed the immediate neighborhood “explode” around her. “Older houses have been scraped off and replaced with condominium complexes or multi-story homes,” Salone said. “As buildings started getting demolished, I thought, ‘This is tragic.’” Salone was unaware how unique her property was until a chance encounter showed up at her door. The great-grandchildren of the cottage’s namesake paid a visit, expressing their surprise that the cottage set back from the street by a garden and the adjacent bungalow were still standing and in remarkable condition. SEE TENNYSON, P10
WHAT’S INSIDE PG. 2 NEW ADMINISTRATION Immigration groups, advocates prep for Trump deportation plan
PG. 11 GO WEST National Western Stock Show returns through Jan. 26
PG. 12 NEW HORIZONS Plans submitted for 213-unit facility on Mullen Home campus
PG. 13 NATIVE ROOTS Colorado Indian Market & Southwest Art Fest is Jan. 25-26