One of the pleasures of shopping at the farmers market is learning which products are truly superior to supermarket stuff and which offer only the advantage of good karma. For some reason, although I love kale and fennel, I love supermarket kale and fennel better than any I’ve bought at a market stall. But many […]
I’m at Tully’s in the U District, and I have good news and bad news. The good news is that all three of the U District Tully’s locations now have free wi-fi. The bad news is that they’ve changed the name of their Frappuccino competitor again. The first rendition was the Swirkle. Last summer it […]
So, I did go to Organic Wednesday at Pike Place Market yesterday, and it turns out summer is finally here. I was really planning to get some berries, but I was sideswiped by the fact that Alvarez Farm had their first tomatillos of the year. I bought a pound of those, some nice red onions, […]
Say you took a typical fast-food burger place like McDonald’s and gave the menu an extreme makeover. Oh, nothing fancy. Replace the meat with humanely raised, antibiotic-free, local beef. Instead of American cheese slices, Tillamook cheddar. Instead of Mystery Hake for the fish and chips, Alaskan halibut. Fresh local berries for the milkshakes. Salads made […]
We stopped off last Saturday at the Portland Farmers Market. If there is a better farmers market anywhere in the world, it’s hard to imagine what it would be like, except that maybe it would have a wider range of Asian street food. It’s not that I don’t appreciate our Seattle markets, but they’re simply […]
