I’ve got a thing about jars. Ball, Kerr, pint, jelly, quart, half-pint, regular mouth, wide mouth; I love them all. I’m not sure how something so boring can make me so happy, but such is the life of a food nerd. Maybe it’s the possibilities of what could go in them. Of course, my favorite …
Yakima is in the center of Washington State and it is a center of agriculture. Apples and hops keep the local economy afloat, but plenty of other vegetables and fruits are produced by this valley as well. I suppose you could say it produced yours truly, too, since Yakima happens to be where I grew …
Imagine being surrounded by the most extravagant, spectacular displays of food you’ve ever seen. I don’t think jaw-dropping is taking it too far. Add to that: you can take as much as you want and it’s sort of like your job to eat it. This was my experience at a recent conference for food bloggers at the Fairmont Olympic …
A Vegetarian in Seattle: Homegrown Sustainable Sandwich Shop Read More »
I was recently in Seattle for my first ever bloggers conference. It was for women who blog about food, if you can imagine that such a thing exists. (There are so many little subsets of society that we don’t know about until we join them.) So, of course, I thought of nothing but food and eating for 3 days; not a …
A Vegetarian in Seattle: Chaco Canyon Organic Cafe Read More »
Perhaps it’s not surprising that on a 30-square-mile island in the San Juans, it’s customary for the 2200 residents to wave to each other whenever they pass by car. It can unsettle newcomers or visitors who reciprocate a little too late and struggle to identify how they could possibly know the other driver. It does …