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Top of Her Class Liken’s passion for crafting cuisine that tastes like Colorado is coupled with a devotion to making the least impact on the land. To that end, her progressive American entrees (elk carpaccio, sweet-potato agnolotti, ancho-braised short rib) are served beside produce grown in an educational greenhouse program she helped start with students at nearby Brush Creek Elementary.