Author Archives: John Lehndorff
John Lehndorff is the Boulder Reporting Lab’s Food Editor. He has hosted Radio Nibbles on KGNU for more than 30 years and co-hosts the monthly Kitchen Table Talk show. In 2026, the Colorado Restaurant Association honored Lehndorff with a Lifetime Achievement Award as the first journalist to be inducted into the Colorado Foodservice Hall of Fame. His Nibbles newsletter earned a first place award in the Colorado Press Association’s 2026 Better News Media Contest. A Boulder-area resident since 1976 and a former restaurant cook and cooking teacher, Lehndorff was the Food and Features Editor of the Daily Camera, Senior Editor at the Aurora Sentinel, and Dining Critic for the Rocky Mountain News. He was Exhibit Historian for the Museum of Boulder’s recent Boulder Eats! exhibit. Author of Denver Dines (a restaurant guide), his writing has appeared in Bluegrass Unlimited, Town & Country and the Washington Post. Lehndorff is the former Executive Director of the American Pie Council and Chief Judge at the National Pie Championships. A veteran Colorado music critic, he has interviewed musicians ranging from Earl Scruggs, Merle Haggard and Emmylou Harris to Adam Duritz (Barenaked Ladies), Ani Difranco and Sierra Hull.
