Roots and Grubs

Iris: When I’m a grownup, can I drink beer? Me: Sure. Iris: Can I drink pale ale? Can I drink amber? (pause) Iris: Can I drink RIP CURL?

My all-time favorite book of food essays is not by MFK Fisher, Jeffrey Steingarten, or A.J. Liebling. It’s by a Canadian reporter named John Allemang. The Importance of Lunch (which is out of print in the US but can easily be found on Bookfinder or Amazon.ca) features a number of remarkably unstuffy pieces about food […]

Someone searched MSN for the following topic and ended up on R&G. I hope it wasn’t urgent. child eaten by lobster

Most of the stuff I write is pretty lighthearted, but sometimes I turn in a story so hard-hitting that the rest of the local media can’t help but be swept along in the tide of newsworthiness. That was the case last week. As I mentioned, I recently held a chocolate chip tasting for Seattle Magazine. Today […]

Today Iris and I went down to Pike Place Market because we needed some slab bacon from Bavarian Meats. Iris remembered that last time we went there I bought her a chocolate umbrella. Iris does not forget candy. But this time she got something more memorable. Here’s how things go every time I go to Bavarian […]