Food, Stories, Life
Photo by Julie Whitehorn I went to the most lovely party this past weekend, I have to tell you about it. It’s the season, you know—warm days and evenings that stay light late. It’s summer party season. In this case, it was a surprise birthday party. The birthday girl had… Read More
The niecelets had their first sleepover at my place last week. I’ve been involved in other sleepovers they’ve had—tag-teaming with my mom—and I took them to Canada last summer, but this was the first time it was just the three of us for twenty-four hours. I decided we should make… Read More
Have you ever met a new person and knew instantly the two of you would be friends? It happened to me last summer with a restaurant. The first time I visited The Walrus and The Carpenter, an oyster bar that opened in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle last year, I… Read More
Oh, people—I have been waiting a long time for today. Weeks, definitely, months is more like it. It feels like I’ve been waiting ages for strawberry season. Actually, I’ve been waiting for over a year. It was last spring that we bought a couple of pots of Shuksan strawberries. Around… Read More
I’m going to share a recent addiction with you: Salty Seeds from Nettletown. Nettletown is the year-old Seattle restaurant opened by Christina Choi, whose food showcases her combined Swiss-Chinese heritage and love of wild and foraged edibles. I’ve written about Nettletown before (raved is more like it). It is the… Read More
Travel into the mountains and back in time with this memoir of life and tradition in rural Japan. Includes ten homestyle Japanese recipes
Read more about it here.
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