It's been a big week for salmon, at least here in the Seattle area, with two sizeable stories in play. One new, one older but with a new timeliness. The new news was the terrible failure of farmed salmon pens near the San Juan Islands. I'll admit to not having [...]
Between gin, snacks and salmon, it's kind of hard to know which of those favorite topics I touch on more often here. But with the traditional mid May launch of Copper River salmon season just passed, it's little surprise salmon is on top of mind right now. It's something like [...]
Yes, I know. I just wrote about salmon in my last post. And I'm writing about it again today. Deliciously redundant because it is, in fact, officially salmon season now that the first gleaming specimen has made its way south from the Copper River up in Alaska. I'll admit to [...]
Asparagus, tulips and salmon, oh my. It must be spring in the Northwest. Though, granted, this year's very chilly and damp spring has meant delay in the produce and flower departments, it's unlikely that the piscatorial harbinger of spring will be off its typical mid-May schedule by much. The Alaska [...]
These days more than ever, it's nice when you can make a dollar spent go farther. If you're a fan of wild Northwest salmon and have an interest in supporting the livelihoods of the people who work to bring food to your plate, here's a delicious opportunity for you to [...]
This is a post I hesitate to start because, like gin in the previous post, salmon is a subject near and dear to my heart. Once I get rolling, it's hard to not follow various tangents about my experiences with the glorious fish. I'll take it as a personal challenge [...]