Boulder already treats granola like a utility. It lives in backpacks headed up Mount Sanitas, in jars beside the coffee maker, and in the kind of afternoon snack that never pretends to be a meal but still works like one.
That is why food always wins here. Granola fits the Boulder lifestyle almost perfectly: portable, filling, endlessly adaptable, and equally useful before a hike, between classes, or during a long afternoon at work.
Boulder also has some genuine granola history. Nutrition counselor Elizabeth Stein launched Purely Elizabeth in 2009 and introduced the company’s first granola in 2011. The natural-foods company is now based in Boulder…