{"id":28,"date":"2008-11-25T22:00:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2023-05-30T20:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:31:07","slug":"hats-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eataspen.com\/blog\/hats-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Hats off."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0May 6, 1950-Nov. 19, 2008<\/span>
\nAspen\u2019s Reggie Barbour, long time local chef, author, and all-around fun guy, died peacefully after a short stay at Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado in Grand Junction on Nov. 19, 2008.
\nA professional chef and business man, Reggie started his career at the Pomegranate Inn in Aspen and then owned a restaurant in Paonia. Aspenites will remember Reggie as the chef and manager at Boogie\u2019s in Aspen for nearly 20 years.
\nIn 2007, his book \u201cColorado\u2019s Forks in the Road: An Adventurer\u2019s Guide to Unique Restaurants\u201d was published with great acclaim from New York to L.A.
\n\u201cSoupsk\u00f6l\u201d was Reggie\u2019s baby. He started the annual friendly competition to judge the best soup from all Aspen restaurants, and it remains part of his legacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

His book is Available at the Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0May 6, 1950-Nov. 19, 2008 Aspen\u2019s Reggie Barbour, long time local chef, author, and all-around fun guy, died peacefully after a short stay at Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado in Grand Junction on Nov. 19, 2008. A professional chef and business man, Reggie started his career at the Pomegranate Inn in Aspen and read more »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[35,177,501],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aspen-chef","category-food","tag-alt-media","tag-cooking","tag-soupskol","author-dmwkes","aspen-chef","food"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t