When Iris started school, I figured she’d get colds all the time. It didn’t occur to me that she’d bring them home and give them to me. It took a whole week and a half for this to happen. By the time Iris graduates from high school, I am going to look like a patient […]
This week on Serious Eats: Cooking With Kids: School Lunches Personally, I can see the storm cloud of chicken nuggets gathering on the horizon, but my daughter Iris, 3, just started preschool, and her school doesn’t serve hot lunch. So I have to send sack lunch, and if it’s no good, I have no one […]
I’m at the Tully’s Coffee on 19th. I ordered a tea for here. At this Tully’s, for some reason, their tea-sized mugs are a random assortment like you’d see in an office lunchroom. This time they did something that has never happened to me before in hundreds if not thousands of visits to Seattle coffeehouses. They […]
Iris could spend a whole afternoon tasting jams at the Woodring Orchards stand at the Broadway farmers market. You can taste any of their products, using the same little plastic spoons they have at the ice cream shop. Woodring doesn’t actually have an orchard. They buy excess product from local farms and turn it into preserves. […]
As I wrote a couple months ago: There’s an odd vacuum in the local hamburger bun market. You like sesame seed buns, right? I do. What I don’t like is a bun so large that it dwarfs my patty or forces me to make a gargantuan meat disc. When I go to the supermarket, […]