The Denver Cupcake Truck
The Denver Cupcake Truck
This afternoon DOD fortuitously stumbled upon The Denver Cupcake Truck at 15th and Tremont. It’s only the second day that the old time delivery truck has hit the streets of Denver. I quickly and giddily purchased a couple samples to try back at DOD headquarters… Zippy Lemon: a lemon cake filled with lemon curd and topped with cream cheese frosting; Mile-Hi Mocha: a mocha cake frosted with espresso butter cream then dipped in heath bar bits; and perhaps my favorite, Rockin’ Red Velvet: a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, dipped in sugar and silver dragees. Other flavors include: Vanilla Party, Chocolate Overload, Pistachio and Denver Snowball. The Denver Cupcake Truck also offers a daily Mystery flavor. Today’s feature was a blueberry cupcake topped with a maple frosting. Pancakes, much? Cupcakes cost $2.75 a piece or four for $10.
Rockin' Red Velvet
And YES, I just ate all three of those cupcakes in just the last half-hour… and would have seriously considered a fourth if I didn’t have the breakfast that I did this morning. I need some ice cold milk, bad… and maybe a nap in the next hour when my sugar high comes down.
Interested in finding the truck’s next stop? I suggest following TDCT’s Facebook page, or Twitter and giving these baked goods a try!
More and more I’ve been asking myself the following: Is Denver joining the culinary ranks of New York or San Francisco? I hope so! Denver has a tremendous opportunity to reanimate it’s street food culture, and to give it an identity similar to, but distinct from Portland’s. If recent signs, like the barbacoa-like lamb gyro I had courtesy of Denver’s Gastro Cart, are forecasting a trend, then Denver has a lot to look forward to. Imagine a 16th Street Mall that could one day deserve this: http://www.foodcartsportland.com/
Kalinda
Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma
I’ve posted about The Good Wife before but I am feeling the need to extoll its virtues once again, and particularly those of Archie Panjabi, who plays the character of Kalinda Sharma. Kalinda is an investigator for the firm of Stern, Lockhart, and Gardner. And she is, in a word, fantastic. The writers have made her character multilayered, devious, conniving, intelligent, sexual, and saucy. In short, she is not simply a bit player but has all the complexity of a (particularly interesting) real woman. And as one of about five Indian women on American television in speaking roles (fewer?), that’s no small feat (Panjabi is British, though plays an American on this show). That Panjabi manages to make the most of what the writers provide for her is, of course, all to her own credit.
Viewers may remember the episode when Kalinda was a witness and manipulated the judge into dismissing the testimony she did not want to be giving. She did this by making not-so-very veiled hints about the judge’s own sexual proclivities (which included reenacting scenes from plantation life with African American prostitutes). It was genius. Last week’s episode featured another true gem. Kalinda is at a college gym and wants access to a locker. She’s dealing with a college kid or perhaps assistant coach who works there.
Kalinda: You got the keys?
Coach Kid: Don’t you need a warrant or something?
K: Yeah, if I were a cop. I can get bolt cutters in here but it’d be easier if you just opened it.
CK: So you’re not a cop?
K: No.
CK: And you’re not with campus police?
K: Unh uh.
CK: So who are you?
K: Kalinda
And he opens it! Not only does the writing make fun of the way that we all, schooled in cop shows, think we know what to ask in such a situation, but it also points out that we wouldn’t know quite what to do when faced with answers like Kalinda’s. And as preposterous as it sounds, you believe it. Or, at the very least, her performance is so good that you’re thrilled into wanting to believe it. And that’s pretty much the same thing.
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