FoodNerd experiences the typical Seattle gardener’s dilemma: What to do with a bumper crop of zucchini?
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FoodNerd experiences the typical Seattle gardener’s dilemma: What to do with a bumper crop of zucchini?
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The recession has had one odd but happy unintended consequence for those of us without the means to drop $100 on appetizers and a couple rounds of drinks: Recession-special happy hours at swanky downtown hotels, at least two of which are offering bargain-basement prices on food and booze to lure customers in the door.
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Dear Dumpling Dojo, I know you’re only a “pop-up” restaurant—a temporary restaurant filling a fleeting niche in Seattle’s dining ecosystem. You’ll be gone soon enough, replaced by yet another Bank of America outpost at the former site of Siam on Broadway. Maybe you see your impermanence as a reason to ignore the sort of things [...]
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Last weekend’s “Mobile Food Chowdown”—an annual event held this year in the shadow of Safeco Field—promised a standoff between street food vendors between Portland and Seattle—12 food carts from Seattle, and just four from Portland. Veraci Pizza Did it deliver? Not even close—not because the vendors’ food wasn’t delicious (most was), but because the lines, [...]
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Seattle is far from the most difficult city to get around, and dine in, without a car. I can think of many worse ones: Houston, where I’m from; any of the small barbecue towns scattered across the Southeast; even cities like Portland, where local planners have cut 120 positions and dramatically reduced service in response [...]
More »While I was eating $1.99 Safeway Organic tomato soup for lunch (don’t hate—it’s close to payday), here’s the menu city council members and staff were enjoying at their annual departmental retreat, held this year at the downtown Bell Harbor Conference Center: Organic Mixed Greens with Assorted Dressings Classic Caesar Salad Seasonal Fruit Salad Greek Pasta [...]
More »While I was eating $1.99 Safeway Organic tomato soup for lunch (don’t hate—it’s close to payday), here’s the menu city council members and staff were enjoying at their annual departmental retreat, held this year at the downtown Bell Harbor Conference Center: Organic Mixed Greens with Assorted Dressings Classic Caesar Salad Seasonal Fruit Salad Greek Pasta [...]
More »Lest readers think my M.O. is to go to restaurants on opening night and slag on them for failing to live up to my inflated expectations, take note: I waited a full week to go to the Spice Room, the new, hotly-anticipated Thai restaurant in Columbia City. And guess what? I loved it. I’m going [...]
More »Lest readers think my M.O. is to go to restaurants on opening night and slag on them for failing to live up to my inflated expectations, take note: I waited a full week to go to the Spice Room, the new, hotly-anticipated Thai restaurant in Columbia City. And guess what? I loved it. I’m going [...]
More »This, in no particular order and chosen somewhat arbitrarily from memory, is my list of some of the best meals I made in 2009. Tellingly, perhaps, several of them are from the now-defunct Gourmet magazine, and none are from its putative replacement*, Bon Appetit. 1. Salsa Verde Carnitas (Pork Tacos with Green Sauce) This recipe, [...]
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This, in no particular order and chosen somewhat arbitrarily from memory, is my list of some of the best meals I made in 2009. Tellingly, perhaps, several of them are from the now-defunct Gourmet magazine, and none are from its putative replacement*, Bon Appetit. 1. Salsa Verde Carnitas (Pork Tacos with Green Sauce) This recipe, [...]
More »Or, FoodNerd reads the critics’ prognostications for 2010 so you don’t have to.
More »My pretend boyfriend, Ezra Klein, has a smart piece today about—stick with me here—the behavioral economics of Thanksgiving. Basically, Klein argues that we can control what we eat at Thanksgiving—and how much—by planning for our (predictable) irrationality beforehand, while we’re still feeling rational. Start with a soup course (what economists refer to as a “default”), [...]
More »Some last-minute foodie links for the slow pre-Thanksgiving news day: Mark Bittman has a recipe for make-ahead gravy; Ruhlman shares his method for make-ahead stock. Why not combine the two? (And while you’re at it, make Ruhlman’s Brussels sprouts with bacon, roasted red pepper, and pine nuts—or just gawk at his wife Donna’s amazing photos, [...]
More »When Gourmet Magazine went under, one of the biggest losses was that of Barry Estabrook, whose writing on food politics set the magazine apart from other food and wine glossies like Bon Appetit and Saveur. Estabrook’s writing—on slavery in tomato farms, antibiotic use in fisheries, and the USDA’s “dysfunctional” management of the US organic program—made [...]
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