Being closely involved with the foodie crowd, through my wife, I shared her excitement as we watched the (drum roll) Final Episode of “Top Chef” on Bravo Wednesday night, when “Boulder’s own” Hosea Rosenberg, chef at Jax Fish House, won out over everyone in grueling weeks of competition and became “Top Chef” – he won the whole thing (and $100,000).

We go back pretty far with Hosea – back to when he was a chef at the old Dandelion restaurant on Spruce Street, where he learned a lot about cooking under the tutelage of acclaimed Denver chef Kevin Taylor. We were part owners of that restaurant, and Michele was a very hands-on manager of it for quite a while — until, that is, we moved to Amsterdam in 1999 for my consulting assignment.

In any case, Hosea’s performance on “Top Chef” was amazing – his food and his kitchen dexterity were beyond my mortal contemplation as a mere consumer (not producer) of great food. All hail Hosea!

Other articles by Bob Wells

• Flagstaff tree thinning: threat level still high - May 20th, 2011
• Is the tree-thinning orgy winding down yet? - May 16th, 2011
• Why we cancelled all the newspapers - March 25th, 2011
• Dogs versus cats - March 8th, 2011
• Elk in the shadow of Red Rocks - March 8th, 2011
• Getting ready for collapse with "food localization" - March 1st, 2011
• Live coverage from Cairo - January 28th, 2011
• World enviro-day draws scant Boulder crowd - October 11th, 2010
• A sun-splashed bash to dedicate CU's big new Visual Arts Complex - September 24th, 2010
• Weekend of thanks - September 19th, 2010