While Iris did the Puyallup today, Laurie and I hit the Ballard Farmers Market. One of the biggest of Seattle’s markets, Ballard’s has some special features. There’s the bruschettina lady, who has been profiled in Sunset as well as all the local media, whose wares are justifiably famous, and who is now moving to Italy. […]
We just made a major Trader Joe’s pilgrimage. Lately I’ve been eating lunch at home more often and wanting lunch to be cheap and fast. I have an addiction to eating lunch out, which combined with a delusion that lunch out is $5 gets expensive fast. So the Joe’s frozen section is delightful. I got […]
Anita of Married with Dinner fame has selected me to share my list of Five Things to Eat Before You Die. I urge you to take this list seriously. If you do not eat these five things, I can’t be responsible for the consequences. Lasagna Bolognese. You have to make the pasta yourself. You have to […]
The October issue of Parents has a great baby food feature. Not only does it have many great ideas for finger foods, but it’s artfully presented. If I have one quibble, it’s that there aren’t enough high-fat items on the list. Not only do babies require a high-fat diet, they find fatty foods easier to chew […]
Laurie and I spent Christmas 2000 in Paris. Ever since then I’ve been doing something dumb: lamenting the things we didn’t do, even though almost everything we ate was fantastic. Now my friend Emily, who is currently in Paris, has given me another thing to pine over. While in Paris, I noticed an unusual type of […]