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Pre-holiday rant: I am NOT a snob!
Tangenting off of the new Thanksgiving thread, WHY oh why are people who are passionate about food and recipes and freshness and variety and good quality, etc., often considered to be snobs and/or people to be made "fun" of? Is it an attack fueled by jealousy? I understand that some people just don't care that much about food, but I am equally sure that many of those people have passions that I am ignorant about/don't care about, but I don't make fun of them for it!
Why do I always feel like I need to hide or defend or explain my preferences for fresh vegetables and butter instead of margarine?
I've apparently missed something... of course the only Thanksgiving thread I've read is the one asking about non-traditional foods 'cause I think "normal" Thanksgiving food is boring and/ or crap. I'm totally cool with being called a snob for that.
I don't bother to talk food to people who I know don't share the interest in food. If you're referring to this site (or other food sites), who on Chow is NOT a "food snob"--that is, someone who cares about the eating experience?
Sometimes it's not even about the food that I'm considered a snob. I take great pleasure in having all of my matching serving dishes for presentation (nothing fancy, it's 13 year old Pfaltzgraff!). I also like things to be matchy matchy even if it's paper plates and napkins for a casual get-together. Some people are so offended! I'll never understand.
It's like we should be punished or ridiculed if we don't just serve Tostitos and jarred salsa in the respective bag and jar. (Not that there is anything wrong with that but I want it a little fancier!)
I guess the question is why do you feel the need to hide and/or defend yourself?
Do you routinely talk about freshness, quality? Do you often rave about your latest recipe? Go on about you would never, ever eat XYZ ?
Often times one's passion can come across as bragging or passing judgement on what another person likes.
Food is one of those hot topic issues like breast feeding and politics. If your passionate about it you are going to ruffle some feathers. Just check out any of the many TJ, fast food or chain threads on this site alone.
Be content with who you are and don't try to hide or defend yourself. Chances are you'll just get aggravated and most likely you really won't change their mind.
Dunno. Do you denigrate others for their food choices? Make a big deal about too much sodium in this, too many chemicals in that, too many preservatives in that can of cream of crap soup? In my experience some people find that offensive and will defend themselves against what they perceive as attacks about what they are used to and what they grew up with.
Well, in the context of recurring traditional ritual meals (Thanksgving, Christmas, Pesach, Rosh Hashanah, Dia de los Muertos, sundances, et cet.), I totally can understand why: it's social policing.
Those meals are by their very nature communal affairs, and they have liminal associations that trump personal creativity needs, among other things. Social policing behavior is designed to make sure those dimensions of the meals are honored and respected and not subordinated to other needs.
Ritual by its nature is boring in the sense that it is repetitive. People who don't get that or resist that are likely to be targeted for social policing.
Rituals do evolve. Gradually. One dish at a time. Maybe.
re: Karl S
Dear Karl,
Evolve this.
Green Bean Casserole
re: Samalicious
Possible, but only at the edges, as it were. Recipes that attempt to gourmandize it miss the point: the core combination has liminal associations (mostly good for most Americans; vile for a small minority) that cannot be easily tampered with. About the most one can do with it is add some duxelles to the canned COM soup (no, making a beautiful COM soup from scratch misses the point), maybe some fried shallots with the French's fried onions (not substituted). Maybe a pinch of cayenne. Absolutely no barely cooked green beans, btw.
re: Karl S
I have found that I can get away with good quality frozen green beans instead of canned - provided I make a big deal of them being on sale. I also tend to add a ton of bacon, and thats one addition I haven't seen people object to, well except one relative who is semi-vegetarian.
AND . . . don't think their ire is directed at you personally. I remember several years ago when Nancy Reagan was replacing the White House China. The US was coming out of a recession and many people felt the first lady was going a bit Mary-Todd-Lincoln. I remember one "salt-of-the-earth" friend who stated with utmost sincerity "Melmac was good enough for my mother, what is Nancy's problem?"
In fact, I believe there is an expression for this . . . ummm . . . oh yeah, "Putting on airs." So if it makes you happy, just plaster a good mannered smile on your face and say "but it just makes me happy", and be done with it. Just don't be disappointed when they don't do it. In fact, find some way to praise their green beans, like the innovative use of great-aunt Selma's crystal punch bowl to serve the casserole in, such a whimsical contrast to the chinet plates. I had no idea that bowl was oven safe. Oh, and look, you found the silver colored plastic-ware. It looks so nice! You got that from Costco didn't you?
re: KaimukiMan
Very well put. And frozen green beans work just right for me. But, sadly, not very fresh green beans (much as I love fresh green beans, and I always cook them tender). The freezing process gives a proper texture.
re: Karl S
Frozen hericot vert for me, the best of both worlds!
re: coll
I like barely-steamed green beans, sauteed mushrooms with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, either a bechamel or (heaven forbid) some jarred alfredo sauce, mixed together and put in a casserole with some fried onions on top and baked. Sort of a justification, or food snobbery, maybe, but that's how I like it. It's one of my favorites, in fact.
I suspect that the word "casserole" attached to a dish tends to draw sneers and scornful titters from dilettantish food snobs who subscribe to a blanket disdain for most of that which came before them.
Do you talk about your passion so much that people are annoyed, or talk down to them because they don't have the same passion as you do? Many times, people don't realize that they sound like they are talking down to those who don't share the same love of food/wine/cigars as they do. Let them enjoy their margarine, and you enjoy your butter.
Yea, my friends call me Martha Stewart. But I kinda just embrace it - it's a complement, they are not really 'making fun' of me. It's a bit of respect -not jealousy, I think.
I know when to shut up about food. Recently got some blank looks from my close friends when I told them how excited I was to participate in CH Cookbook of the Month for the first time.
That's why we have each other at CH...we get it.
Appreciating good food can be a social issue. Some co-workers keep inviting me to a mexican restaurant after work. I went once and it was terrible! Disgusting! They like it because it's cheap, but I would pay NOT to go there. Since they seem to like it, I shut up about why I won't go but have suggested we go to another (better) place. I will probably join them again just to be social but will have to find something edible on the menu.
I agree with boogie baby, we have to be careful how we share our love for food, so we don't make others feel inferior for their choices.
re: foodcompletesme
I agree with you. I don't talk to the vast majority of my IRL friends about food in any detail because they're just not into it to the same degree. That is why I'm here.
No one has ever, to my face, ragged on my cooking or desire to use fresh, local, interesting ingredients. In fact, they mostly gobble what I make. My harshest critics, foodwise, are my kids!
re: EWSflash
re: EWSflash
Back in the day, Gallo and Carlo Rossi was as good as it got, mostly.
None of my friends or acquaintances has ever criticized my food choices. Nor I theirs. Some, you could call 'foodies', and others just eat.
I have friends and relatives who eat vegetarian, gluten free, Southern, or any number of preferences, but never have I heard a word of disparagement from any of them. In fact, we all have made a point to cook *for* one another's needs and likes.
Guess I am lucky!
re: kitchengardengal
Well maybe (lucky) More likely is you have friends/relatives who are adults (emotionally/psych) . Can I find a way to replace
mine? People are perpetually 'keeping score' - and are almost always doing the 'snarky' comment.. I try to do as your f/f do - but its consistently one-way. Be thankful for these people.
re: kitchengardengal
I think you have good friends because you are one fyi
Honestly, I have never experienced this. However, I also don't criticize anyone's food choices (in front of them). My secret thoughts about health, freshness and taste....I keep to myself and not make it an instant topic of conversation. If I am served something I don't want to eat...I just say "no thank you" or maybe I take a spoonful and smile.
My goal is a no drama thanksgiving meal...it is a goal....not always possible with family ;)
i'm with you.
have found many more kindred souls on the Los Angeles board.
the "not about food" board and the "general topics" board seem much more centered on and accepting of commercial/highly-processed "food."
I don't think I've ever actually been made fun of or accused of snobbery, but my boyfriend's family definitely doesn't understand me. A few comments have been made, but none were particularly disheartening.
However, knowing them, they save the nasty comments for when I'm not around. :)
I am NOT a snob. I'm a foochebag who needs to learn to keep his mouth shut.
(what I said once to a cousin: "oh yeah I found this great Chinese restaurant, but I doubt it's the kind you'd like" (what I shoulda said) "oh yeah I found this great Chinese restaurant, they cook all kinds of weird parts and it's so spicy it'll snap your cap"
Look anyone who is very "into" anything is gonna bore everyone else when they start talking about it. I really love medieval history, but I don't inflict that on other people because I know it's a dry subject for most. Likewise my close friends do me the courtesy of not going on about indie bands or professional sports when they're around me.
Consider how you present your interest to others in conversation. If you are consistently being labeled a snob by diverse groups of people then the only common denominator is you, yourself.
re: RealMenJulienne
I agree. I can go on and on with a fellow colleague who loves food as much as I do while others are rolling their eyes so I reserve the conversations for him and not for others.
re: RealMenJulienne
You may have just drilled down to the core of the matter. Bravo.
re: RealMenJulienne
Wow ! You have friends who DON'T go on and on about sports because they know you're not all that interested? I find that spouting names, stats, history, and sportscaster-like opinion is one of the few things most of the men I wind up in social situations with DO talk about....... while I mostly just listen. I've always thought it was a guy thing.
re: Midlife
It's a sports oriented guy thing, but I assure you it's not all men; hopefully they do have a few other, however minor, interests to bring to the table?
I think because they interpret our "need" for good quality/freshness as meaning that what they cook/like as not being "good enough". I'm not sure how to get around that dynamic.
Along the Thanksgiving angle - I've long ago realized that people don't like their "Thanksgiving" meal messed with, so I only do one, maybe two, "gourmet" or "new" dishes, the rest is very traditional and keeping in line with what most of America grew up with. My guests (even the foodies) want nostalgia for Thanksgiving, so they get Pepperidge Farms cubed herb stuffing (what the S.O. grew up eating) and a smaller side of a home-made stuffing that I get to experiment with from year to year.
This is truly Not About Food. You are being targeted not because of the value of your preferences, but because they don't match the shared values of the majority of the group.
You are outnumbered, and you are being bullied.
The Mr. refers to a certain type as "gun geeks." These are the guys (mostly men) that can quote every detail about a fine gun but can't hit the wide side of a barn. To me that defines the food snob, all knowledge no practical skills.
The folks I love on this site are curious, knowledgeable and eager to share and learn.
As for the ones who make fun, as others have said, I simply do not engage them in conversations on food. Heck, our football team is 8 and 0. I can talk about the Chiefs and start another kind of ridicule.
We love who and what we love. Sometimes it is better just to STFU.
Happy Halloween!
Ever stop and think maybe you *are* a snob?
And, in fact, maybe we are all snobs here?
After all, when you are conversing with people speaking the same language, no one in that conversation is ever really aware that they are speaking a foreign tongue to those who are not fluent in their dialect.
re: ipsedixit
My foodie friend and I are always telling each other stories of how our families don't understand us and think we're uppity/snobby/etc, and then we stop and think.... "But I guess we are?" :)
I'm really not, though, because I'll eat anything a host puts in front of me, I'll never judge someone else's cooking (at least not out loud), and I'm not exactly working with truffles and foie gras. I just take more pride in what I produce than those around me.
re: ipsedixit
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?"
-David Foster Wallace, commencement speech at Kenyon College 2005
I don't think I am a snob. I'm pretty open to any type of cooking. If it requires a canned soup, so be it. If I can make it myself, so be it. I don't always know the exact wine to do in a braise, but I keep trying. I'm not, by any means, a "chef". But I cook what I like and most times, I like what I cook. My family agrees (mostly). So I don't consider myself a snob. BUT - I'll put in my 2 cents from experience and I don't mind getting criticized for it. Tomorrow is another day. I still plan to cook what I cook. Be it canned, boxed or frozen. I think we all at some time or other, use some of those products. And yes, when it is in season, I will buy fresh. Otherwise, if I wasn't able to can/freeze it ahead of time, you'll get what you get.
re: boyzoma
I have no problem using cream of mushroom soup from a can sometimes. But I'll also drive 15 miles to the product market with fresher produce than going to the 5-6 markets within 2 miles of my house. Sometimes, you want that green bean casserole from canned green beans and canned soup, and sometimes you want fresh sautéed green beans with toasted almonds. Yes, I know I can make refried beans from scratch, and yes, I know they are so easy. But sometimes, you just don't want to. :) We aren't a Chef Boyardee family, but we are a Campbell's condensed soup and canned refried beans kind of family.
I don't get that (being considered a food snob) a lot- primarily because I keep my mouth shut. But I honestly think I am kind of a food snob. When someone tells me about a great recipe involving cream of *fill in the blank* soup, I just cringe inside. My biggest cringe moments (one of) are recipes for garlic bread that involve garlic salt. But cooking and gardening (and hunting and foraging) are my interests so I figure I can't fault anyone else for not being just like me.
I know what you mean and your rant was quite amusing :-)
A snob is generally someone who tends to look down on others for not sharing their passion.
How would you like to spend a whole evening listening to someone going on all night about their butterfly collection and implying that you are somehow deficient because you don't share their enthusiasm.
i love food, but I realise that not everyone will share the same passion so it doesn't totally take over my life.
I dislike food/wine/coffee snobs especially the braggers. I get a lot of visitors to my blog from people who have googled "Food Snob" so clearly it is an issue out there.
There is a fine line between sharing and bragging.

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The Herald-Sun newspaper in Durham, N.C., where the company that makes the drug is based, said it was glad for the boy's sake that he was able to get the medicine. But the process leaves us pained, the editorial board wrote. This is no way to make health-care decisions.
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In the days leading up to the drug company's change of heart March 11, contrasting photos of Josh – smiling at baseball games and then lying in his hospital bed with tubes sticking out of his body – were all over the Internet. He has beaten cancer four times since he was 9 months old. But the disease has left his body without much of an immune system, and in February he was infected with a virus that left him close to death.
Nearly 20,000 people signed a petition supporting compassionate use for Josh, which allows a drug to be administered outside of a clinical trial. Hundreds bombarded Chimerix, a small, publicly traded company that makes the drug, with emails and calls on the boy's behalf.
Critics of the strategy say they sympathize with Josh's parents and admire them for being willing to do anything to save their child, but they decry the crowdsourcing of medical decisions and warn that the case may set a dangerous precedent.
You couldn't get a more troubling and impossible-to-resolve moral dilemma than this one, said Arthur Caplan, director of the division of medical ethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center.
From the perspective of the public and future patients, it's best for the company to focus on getting the drug approved as soon as possible so that the largest number of people can be helped, Caplan said. But from a patient's point of view, getting immediate access to the drug is what's important.
It's a trade-off between the public good versus self-interest, Caplan said. They conflict. There is no way of getting around it.
Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, patients with life-threatening conditions have become increasingly vocal about demanding access to drugs still in development. The Food and Drug Administration in 1987 created rules, amended in 2009, for expanded access or compassionate use to allow what it says is broad and equitable access to those treatments.
But the program remains limited. Since 2009, the agency has approved an average of 1,030 applications each year; each request may be for multiple patients.
Josh, who on Wednesday received his second dose of the treatment – an antiviral drug called brincidofovir – remains in intensive care at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.
His mother, Aimee Hardy, wrote hopefully on Facebook that the virus in Josh's blood is replicating more slowly, and he is in less pain than before.
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Coughing and sneezing into your elbow or a hankie is more important than previously thought but may still not be enough to prevent the spread of disease, a new study says, after researchers in the United States found that violent respiratory events produce turbulent gas clouds that play a key role in transferring infectious germs.
Mathematics and engineering researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) observed that, when individuals sneezed and coughed, the small pathogen-bearing droplets within the expiration cloud may travel five to 200 times further and in a turbulent fashion compared with previous estimates, which assumed larger mucus droplets flew further than smaller ones and in a straight line and did not account for the cloud.
"When you cough or sneeze, you see the droplets, or feel them if someone sneezes on you," applied mathematics professor John Bush, co-author of the study told the MIT News office.
"But you don't see the cloud, the invisible gas phase. The influence of this gas cloud is to extend the range of the individual droplets, particularly the small ones."
The paper titled Violent expiratory events: on coughing and sneezing, and published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, was also co-authored by Lydia Bourouiba, an assistant professor in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and French visiting graduate student Eline Dehandschoewercker, for science and engineering college ESPCI ParisTech.
Using high-speed imaging, fluid dynamics experiments and mathematical modelling, the researchers found that a cough or sneeze released "droplet-bearing turbulent momentum puffs of moist, buoyant air ejected in a direction that depends on the individual".
An animation produced by researchers shows a puff of gas explode out from a sneeze that continues travelling outwards as a "cloud".
"It highlights the importance of the cloud and the extension, range and position of the droplets," Professor Bourouiba said.
"The main recommendation is sneezing into your elbow but that doesn't affect the cloud."
Professor Lidia Morawska, director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at Queensland University, backed the study and said that some droplets in sneezes could be carried as far as 12 metres.
"A common rule of thumb adopted by health professionals when discussing the risk of droplet-borne infection assumes that we are quite safe at more than one or two metres from a patient. Clearly that is not the case if the cough or sneeze is directed toward you," she said.
Professor Bouruiba suggests engineers and architects might want to re-examine the design of ventilation and airconditioning systems in workplaces, hospitals and aircraft to reduce the transmission of pathogens.
"The practical application would be really starting to look into how these multiphase turbulent clouds contaminate indoor air and how the smaller droplets could end up being deposited in ventilation systems.
"Now that we have the physical picture in place, we can more easily think about the strategies that might be more appropriate to change that air flow and position pattern," she said.
However, Professor David Isaacs, specialist at the Department of Infectious Diseases & Microbiology at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, said that, while the study was "interesting", it did not reflect real-life studies.
"This is theory rather than practice," Professor Isaacs said.
"The paper has got some implications in terms of how far you think the sneeze spreads, but what you really want to know is how infectious someone is with a disease."
Professor Isaacs said previous studies had shown that infectious diseases such as measles, chicken pox or influenza, could spread down a corridor even if a patient was in a closed room.
While hospitals already filter air streams, the best way to prevent the effects of being sneezed on is the old-fashioned hankie.
"You should cover your mouth when you sneeze ... so the use of handkerchiefs or tissues, masks if you want to, if you can stand wearing a mask all day, and hand-washing will stop the spread of respiratory infections," Professor Isaacs said.
The paper acknowledges that problems associated with disease transmission are numerous but that the theory allows researchers to revise the "existing physical picture of respiratory disease transmission".
Professor Bourouiba said the next phase in her studies was to better understand how filtration and air circulation interact with the gas cloud and droplets, and to find out how many pathogens are actually contained in the droplets.


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The Reno City Council has approved an agreement to establish an urban market in downtown Reno.
The market eventually would include one or more indoor restaurants, a gourmet food market, arts and crafts, meat, cheese and produce, officials said.
Several locations are being considered under the agreement with the Nevada Certified Farmers Market Association.
Ann Louhela, representing the farmers association, said an outdoors market should open this summer with indoor stores and restaurants being phased in later.
The agreement says the redevelopment agency and farmers group would choose the site together. Business hours and financial help from the city would be discussed.
Councilman Dave Aiazzi said the market would help the city live up to its green priorities by providing a market for farmers to sell produce and other goods.
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As the Nassau County clerk, I am writing to again caution Garden City homeowners about mass mailings that are continually being sent urging them to purchase a "certified copy" of the deed to their home.
Homeowners should be aware that these mailings are solicitations from private companies offering to obtain a deed on the homeowner's behalf. For their service, these private companies are charging more than 1,000 percent over clerk's office fees. Also, residents should know that only the county clerk's office could issue certified copies of deeds.
Please know that it is never necessary to utilize one of these companies to obtain a copy of your deed. Certified copies of deeds can always be obtained from the clerk's office for a nominal charge. Anyone wishing to request a certified copy of the deed to his or her home can contact my office at 571-2664 for further information.
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I am pleased to report that restaurant week was a successful week as a result of the Chamber of Commerce's efforts for the first annual event and the success of their Friday evening program in which "eateries" offered food outside of their establishments. Judging by the crowd, it was evident how much it was enjoyed by all.
It has come to my attention that certain companies are sending out mailings to homeowners offering to file STAR exemption forms on homeowners' behalf for a fee – as high as 100 percent of the exemption obtained.
Please be aware that homeowners may file applications for STAR exemptions (as well as other property tax exemptions) with the Nassau County Assessor's Office for free. You do not need to pay a fee or have a company complete the forms for you.
Please visit the county assessor's website at www.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/Assessor/index.html to view brochures and print application forms for exemptions. Applications for the STAR exemption are due on or before Jan. 4, 2010.
Please share this information with your friends and family.
Once again, compliments are due to the Recreation Department for arranging the 2009 season's outstanding Concert Series at the Village Gazebo, located on the Village Green at the corner of Stewart and Hilton Avenues.
This week's program is scheduled for Thursday, July 30 and will feature Tom Wagner and the Village Music Makers. The program will begin at 7:15 p.m. and admission is free. Please bring your lawn chair or blanket and enjoy a very pleasant evening. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be held at the Cultural and Performing Arts Center at Cluett Hall at the St. Paul's School. Please contact the Recreation Department at 465-4075 with questions pertaining to the concert.
"The stalemate in the New York State Senate has ended. With the gridlock over, more than 130 important bills that affected localities across this state and allowed them to hold the line on property taxes have been passed.
Please mark your calendar for the Chamber of Commerce's First Annual Restaurant Week, which began Monday, July 20. Participating restaurants on Franklin Avenue, Seventh Street and New Hyde Park Road are offering prix fixe menus. As a culmination to Restaurant Week, restaurants and various "eateries" will offer food outside of their establishments Friday evening, July 24, between the hours of 6 and 10 p.m. with a rain date of Saturday, July 25.
I hope that you will be able to eat at some of Garden City's fine restaurants not only on Seventh Street but also along Franklin Avenue and New Hyde Park Road.
In summertime, our libraries swell with children who are doing summer reading and participate in great programs offered to them there. Adults are often eager to find a summer blockbuster to take to the beach for leisure reading. Of course, this is all in addition to the fantastic array of daily activities the library has to offer its residents year round. Therefore, each summer too, legislators like to offer residents an opportunity to also pick up useful booklets from various State agencies and receive free essential information that may answer a question they have a concern about.
I am pleased to report that this year was a safe one for our village. The police department has reported that it was a very quiet one and there were no incidents reported.
Working under a special permit from the village, food establishments on Seventh Street, New Hyde Park Road and Franklin Avenue have placed tables and chairs outside their shops and restaurants for your convenience and enjoyment. Please stop by to let the merchants know that you appreciate their efforts and enjoy the many fine tastes of Garden City. As of today, there are 30 establishments that are participating in the Outdoor Dining Program.
The LiCalzi family visited the Military History Exhibit at the library with the principal intent of viewing the materials and memorabilia concerning our son 1st Lt. Michael L. LiCalzi, USMC who died in Iraq in 2006 serving our nation.
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It won't be as cold tonight as temperatures fall back into the single digits/teens in most areas. It'll be dry overnight with partly cloudy skies overhead.
Expect a mix of clouds and sun across Southern Colorado this weekend. Most areas will stay dry though there's a slight chance for rain/snow around the Pikes Peak region including Colorado Springs Sunday afternoon/evening. Temperatures will be tolerable this weekend with most spots topping out in the 40s both Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
The mountains will continue to see snow throughout the weekend. An additional 1 to 2 feet of snow is possible over the western and central mountains through Monday. Not only will it be snowy up in the high country, it'll be windy as well with wind gusts as high as 50 mph at times. Avalanche danger will remain high as more snow piles up on the mountains.
Colder air will move in for the start of the workweek with highs in the 30s Monday. There's a slight chance for some snow across Southern Colorado Monday. Tuesday looks partly sunny and dry for now with warmer highs in the 40s.
Expect the gradual warm-up to continue Wednesday through Friday of next week with dry conditions holding out for the second half of the workweek.
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