Ok, it wasn't really ice cream. It was amazing, rich, dense, creamy gelato that drew me downtown one early evening last week. My friend Maria Coassin, who opened Gelatiamo in 1996 (my how the time flies!) was celebrating a recent remodel of her small, bright space at the bustling corner of [...]
This is what I sat down to last Thursday afternoon: Twenty glasses, a judging sheet, a bottle of water and a pencil, with a platter of freshly shucked kumamoto oysters delivered forthwith. The tools of the trade for an oyster wine judging. This Seattle gathering at Anthony's HomePort at Shilshole [...]
Suddenly I'm the calendar girl. This additional date for you to consider on next month's calendar has me particularly thrilled. The memoir that Patricia and Walter have written, We've Always Had Paris...and Provence: A Scrapbook of Our Life in France, is being released early May and they're setting off on a whirlwind tour [...]
I've come across a couple of interesting events that you might want to sign up for next month: one in Bellevue for the urbanites, another in the North Cascades if a little road trip sounds good. First, the road trip. May 17 and 18, Maria Hines will be a guest [...]
The IACP conference gets into high gear later today. Yesterday was my last vestige of unstructured time before the agenda gets packed. After a productive morning of work in the hotel room, I treated myself to a couple hours walking around the French Quarter. And after all that serious thinking [...]
I leave bright and early tomorrow for a week in New Orleans, where I'll be attending the annual conference of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. I'm on the board, so being at the conference is something of a command performance. But I've only missed one conference--San Antonio, for no [...]
This post proves that one person's culinary curiosity is another person's comfort food. Yesterday I was shopping for lamb shanks at the combo meat/seafood counter my (very) friendly neighborhood grocery store. (I'd tell you what I did with the shanks, but afraid it's for a magazine article later this year, along with [...]
As promised in a post last week, I picked up some sunchokes at the Full Circle Farm stand at the West Seattle Farmers Market Sunday. It follows in the heels of an event I attended where Andrew Stout from Full Circle joked that everyone in the room needed to develop five [...]
I just got a press release from Food & Wine Magazine announcing the 2008 winners of their coveted "Best New Chef" recognition. Of course, I'm always thrilled when Seattle chefs gain recognition nationally. An ovation goes out to Ethan Stowell, chef/owner of Union, Tavolata and the new How to Cook a [...]
I went to a Chef's Collaborative event here in Seattle on Monday night. I really love the crowd at these member meet-and-greet gatherings. Can always count on seeing pals from the food and beverage world, including Charles and Rose Ann Finkel from Pike Brewing Company and Pub; Fernando and Marlene Divina from [...]