The Carnival Cafe and the history of Natural and Organic Foods in Boulder

I wanted to share an excellent article from the Boulder Weekly by Roger Freed from this August about the Carnival Cafe and the counter-cultural milieu from the 1960s and 1970s in my hometown of Boulder which ultimately incubated a potent regional cluster of wholesale and retail business in the natural and organic foods sectors in the Boulder area. See quote below:

"The Carnival Cafe was a colorful potpourri of enthusiastic alternatives. Vibrant posters papered the walls, and plants possessed corners and overflowed from shelves. A huge, U-shaped , glass display counter dominated the middle of the main dining room and housed hand-made trinkets for sale and whole-grain goodies generous in their size , price and healthy ingredients. The insider name of the bakery section was "the Dateful Bread." Behind the back counter, bangel bedecked girls in tie-dye T-shirts and saris baked next to the long-haired fellows in sandals who were cooking."