Roots and Grubs

Iris: I don’t like soda. Grandma: I don’t like soda either. Not everybody has to like everything. Iris: Everybody likes dumplings.

Iris’s current favorite word is actually. Cut to Monday morning: Me: Hmm, what should we make for dinner tonight? Iris: Salmon! (pause) Iris: Actually, shrimp. So I made this Rick Bayless recipe that I’ve been wanting to try forever, shrimp in mojo de ajo. To make the mojo, you cook a ton of garlic in […]

My least favorite dinner growing up was roast chicken. I didn’t actively dislike it, but it tasted, you know, like chicken. Like nothing. So I’ve never roasted a whole chicken. There is one roast chicken in Seattle that I do like, and it’s the one that is synonymous with roast chicken here: Le Pichet. I […]

Is there anything more lovely than the pristine surface of a newly-opened jar of peanut butter? I feel sorry for jars of natural peanut butter, which can never offer the world such beauty.

Yesterday I had a meeting at All City Coffee in Pioneer Square, and it’s jumped immediately onto my list of my favorite coffeehouses. While I was enjoying my cappuccino, I realized two things. First, I seem to have a weakness for mezzanines. Two of my other favorites, Joe Bar and Top Pot downtown, have mezzanine […]