Oh, you know. The Julia Child movie that's been in the works for a while now. The one starring Meryl Streep as Julia? Based on that Julie & Julia blog/book? I'm not an ET watcher, but a friend just passed along this link to a preview from the show. On that [...]
It all started with a simple hankering I had on the way home one afternoon a month or so ago. In the corner of the parking lot of my local grocery is a Tully's. Some handful of years ago they started selling (really quite tasty) soft-serve ice cream, in coffee and vanilla, [...]
I always loved summer camp as a kid. For many summers my folks dropped me off at Camp Killoquah north of Everett for a week of canoeing, swimming, archery, making sand candles, singing camp songs. I can't remember much about what I did last month, or the name of someone [...]
Now that it's actually springtime in Seattle (at least for another day or so), it's hard to remember having been in the snow up in Whistler early last month. But watching a rerun of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations show on Vancouver a few days ago brought back to mind my [...]
This is a simple little technique that I picked up somewhere in the course of my culinary development a couple of decades ago. I have a feeling it morphed out of having had that peler à vif technique drummed into us at cooking school (a technique I use pretty often, as [...]
Still in a bit of a fog following a very full week in Denver last week for the IACP conference. Much as we have opportunities to get out on the town for meals and excursions, cocktails and random breaks -- it never really feels like I'm able to do justice to a [...]
I count this among the small pleasures in life: flipping through the day's mail, as I did last week, to see that it includes a copy of Seattle magazine's annual "Best Restaurants" issue. Not only because I'm an adamant fan of our local restaurants and love to see what's on the [...]
When you hear "Edible Book," what comes to mind? Me, I guess I'm just too literal for my own good. When I got an email a couple months ago about next weekend's Edible Book Festival, I thought it was just a colorful, creative way of referencing a gathering of cookbook [...]
Like I needed one more decadent treat to have on my list of favorite vices.... But I found one anyway. I had an errand to do at Theo Chocolates in Fremont yesterday (honest, I really did). While there, couldn't help reliving a couple of my favorite bites from a previous trip. [...]
Wow. Ten years already. I was at, if not the first, definitely the second Cask Ale Festival put on by the Washington Brewer's Guild. In fact, I think this festival was among the earlier ventures the Guild took on after forming in the late 1990s. The first cask festival had [...]