It's probably just as well that the camera was still in my suitcase in the back of the rental car. Probably wouldn't have been a good idea to be taking pictures while driving yesterday afternoon. There had already been a serious accident on I-64, a backup I'd soon be caught [...]
Fresh herbs are the norm in so many recipes today, a very happy change from those days when all our herbs were from little tin cans in the kitchen cupboard. That comes thanks both to the availability of fresh herb bundles in grocery stores and more of us home cooks growing chives, thyme [...]
It's a summertime tradition, to be sure, though for me iced coffee has been a bigger part of the season than usual this year. Has a lot to do with the heat, no doubt. While I was in New York City early June, during that heat wave, I drank a few iced [...]
Open this week in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle: the third in the city's mini-empire of outstanding Neapolitan pizzerias brought to us by Via Tribunali. This new outlet lands in a turn-around neighborhood that was a historic hub of Seattle a century ago. (Georgetown Brewing Company down the street, brewers of beloved Manny's [...]
Some day I'm going to actually get around to this, checking on the earlier history of my Seattle neighborhood to see if cherry trees figured prominently back when. Our house is nearly surrounded by them. To one side an ancient, sprawling Rainier tree packed with cherries that I can spy [...]
Such an unassuming little bag. Such delicious treats inside! (And yes, I could have chosen to have my treats cradled in a box instead, but cost is a hair more and the bag was just going home to my own kitchen counter...) I'd be surprised if any food-conscious Seattleite hasn't [...]
Yes, another trip to Vegas. This time mid-June with good friends John and Kathy Casey. Even bigger Vegas hounds than us, they have far more wee-hours stamina than I do, though one night I did manage to stay up until 2:30 am (woo-hoo) or so, thanks to a particularly fun [...]
It all started with last week's episode of Splendid Table, host Lynne Rosetto Kasper and her guest David Rosengarten waxing deliciously poetic about the perfect burger (you can listen here, this spot's about halfway through the program). The Splendid Table is golden in the world of food media, but sometime the show's just mean. I [...]
A couple of summers ago I did an article for Seattle Magazine about the trend of urban chicken-keeping that was sweeping Seattle, and surely still is. The story was instigated by a trip on the City Chicken Coop Tour, put on by Seattle Tilth. It snuck up on me this [...]
Great minds think alike, don't you agree? My food-writing cohort and friend Nancy Leson spelled out a few days ago--in delicious detail--the steps she (and her husband Mac) uses to turn out perfect whole chicken roasted on the backyard grill. I'd served at home last Saturday night very much the same [...]