I’m meeting Laurie and Iris downtown this morning, so I figured I’d catch some wireless action at the central library. No dice—they don’t open until ten. But I spied a Free Wi-Fi decal at the Juan Valdez cafe at 5th and Pike, which opened last year. It turns out that the Valdez cafes are essentially an […]
No good story, I know, starts with “I woke up hung over,” but bear with me. I woke up hung over this morning after a rare night of carousing. It was 8:50am, and there was a chef on the phone. He was returning my call. I wanted him to taste some roast chickens with me for […]
Last night at dinner, a friend asked me what kind of perks I get as a food writer. Well, here’s the story of one. I’m writing a column for Seattle Magazine called Chef Test. The first one ran this month. Pastry chef Dana Bickford and I tasted six brands of chocolate chips, plain and in cookies, […]
You know Cold Stone Creamery, the place where they mash mediocre ice cream up with add-ins on a frozen marble slab? Wouldn’t it be great to have a scene in a book or movie where the villain works at Cold Stone and tortures an underling by mashing his face against the frozen slab? In the same […]
Wouldn’t it have been funny to post nothing for four days and then put up a one-liner that read, “THE LOBSTERS, DEAR GOD, SAVE ME FROM THE LOBSTERS”? Possibly with a photo of a lobster photoshopped onto my face. So here’s how it turned out. When we got to USP, all of the lobsters in the tank […]