Entries tagged with 'Washington'
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"Seattle has many hot dog joints but until recently didn't have its own definitive Seattle Dog." [Artwork: Hawk Krall] Past Weeks' Dogs Beer Marinated Chili DogDepression Dog24-Hour DogThe Philly ComboTijuana Dog Whenever I think I'm out of regional hot dogs to cover, I get four or five e-mails about hot dogs I've never even heard of. It's amazing how quickly a hot dog style can be established. This week's dog, the Seattle Style cream cheese dog, seems to have popped up out of nowhere. Served at carts and trucks all over the city, popular for a quick lunch or after the bars at 2 a.m., the Seattle Style hot dog is a wiener or Polish sausage grilled and often split...
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Pink box from Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, Oregon. [Flickr: mulmatsherm] There are many cultural differences between the West and East coasts but it takes a true doughnut eater to notice the one involving different-colored bakery boxes. When Jessie Oleson of Cakespy (and our own baking blogger) moved out west, she spotted the Pepto Bismol-colored boxes after being so used to white ones. It turns out the difference has something to do with Cambodia (yes, we're all over the map here). According to an "Ask Chris" column in Los Angeles Magazine: Cambodians fleeing the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s arrived in large numbers in Southern California, where they were recruited by Winchell’s. At the time the coated, greaseproof boxes...
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[Photograph: Rachel Strawn] Frank Bruni and I have at least two things in common: We’ve both hung up our professional feedbags and we’re both over the moon about the lardo lollipops at Salumi in Seattle. I got to meet the author of Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater when he was in the city on a West Coast leg of his book tour. We had lunch at the renowned salumeria started by Armandino Batali and now run by his daughter, Gina Batali, and her husband, Brian D’Amato. But before he sat down at the head of the table for 10, my friend and former Seattle Post-Intelligencer colleague Rebekah Denn and I double-teamed the former New York...
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[Flickr: pouryourheartintoit] This might sound corny, but as a food critic I always appreciated when a restaurant was a labor of love. As much as I admired the panache and precision of many a white linen tablecloth venue, there was something especially charming about a Mom-and-Pop place trying so hard to please. That's how I would describe the newest hot spot in Seattle, Delancey, a pizza place run by a young couple who’ve put a lot of heart and soul into doing things just right. And I’m not just saying that because I’m trying to butter up the boss and get my foot in the door either. When I wrote a few weeks ago about my frustrating efforts to...
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Searching for the Missing Links... [Photographs: Leslie Kelly] There were men wearing lederhosen while om-pah-pah music floated through the air and tourists sipped on stout steins of beer. This must be Germany, right? No, it’s the Bavarian Village of Leavenworth in Washington, a favorite destination for Seattlites looking to get out of town and up in the mountains or float down the pristine Wenatchee River. Me? I came looking for links. Seemed fitting since my summer has been a regular sausage-o-rama. First, I worked as a brat jockey at Shultzy’s near the University of Washington. Then, there was the great hunt for the best boudin in Cajun Country. So, when I traveled to a family reunion in Leavenworth, I carved...
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Mike James combined his passion for wine and video games by starting 8-Bit Vitners, a winery based in Walla Walla, Washington. This summer the winery released its first vintage, a red blend, called Player 1, which you can buy online for $18 per bottle. In an interview at SuppleWine.com James mentions his picks for best videogames to go with Player 1: Mega Man 2 on the NES or, for a more current came, Shadow of the Colossus for PS2. He also says he hopes to release a white wine, appropriately called Player 2, next spring. [via Unique Daily] Related Creative Wine Labels Why Serious Eaters Should Be Serious Wine Tasters Serious Grape: Winter Red Wine Blends...
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Rachel Yang assembling her dishes. Since coming out from behind my critic's cloak of anonymity, I've met a few chefs whose restaurants I’ve reviewed. There’s often that awkward pause during which I wonder whether they're going to stick a fork in me. Not so with Rachel Yang, the chef-owner of Joule, who said she was happy for us to finally meet. Yang and her husband/business partner Seif Chirchi came to Seattle a few years ago after working in New York for some of the biggest names in the business: Alain Ducasse (at the now-shuttered Essex House), Thomas Keller (at Per Se), and Daniel Boulud (at DB-Bistro Moderne). The French-Korean restaurant she helmed in 2007, the now defunct Coupage, was...
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Critic Turned Cook follows former Seattle Post-Intelligencer food critic Leslie Kelly on her journey away from the keyboard and into the kitchen. Take it away, Leslie! All right chefs, cooks and hardcore food fans: Raise your wing if you've ever plucked a freshly butchered chicken. Does the thought make your skin crawl? I honestly didn't know if I could do it, but I somehow managed to step up during an intense culinary program at the Quillisascut Farm School of the Domestic Arts, a little slice of utopia about six hours east of Seattle in Rice, Washington. Loads of people give the local/sustainable talk, but few make it their life mission as have Rick and Lora Lea Misterly, makers of incredible...
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Critic Turned Cook follows former Seattle Post-Intelligencer food critic Leslie Kelly on her journey away from the keyboard and into the kitchen. Take it away, Leslie! Rolling out sheets of pasta at Betty. Seattle is such a chill city—frosty, some might say. (I'm not talking temperature. This week, we’re experiencing a record-breaking heat wave.) This casual vibe might explain why I have yet to witness a fiery meltdown in any of the kitchens I’ve worked in so far. Where are the Gordon Ramsay-like tirades? How come these chefs don’t scream at their staff? Nobody has come to blows or exchanged bitter words. No plates have been smashed. At the latest stop on my journey from keyboard to kitchen, a neighborhood...
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Photograph taken by rudolf_schuba on Flickr Starbucks rose to dominate the coffee landscape by slapping its logo on thousands upon thousands of virtually identical cafés from Jakarta to Peoria. But now, trying to shed its image as a corporate monolith, Starbucks is actually removing its brand from a number of its stores, starting in its birthplace, Seattle. The Seattle Times reports that three un-Starbucksed cafés will open under other names, like the rechristened “15th Avenue Coffee and Tea,” debuting on Monday. It will serve beer and wine, and host music performances, poetry nights, and other community-oriented events. It's still Starbucks pulling the strings—but with no green logos in sight....
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