Today on Serious Eats: SmartShopper: A Real Yo-Yo of a Device It’s an electronic shopping list, and catalogs like Sur La Table and The Sharper Image are pushing it this holiday season. And if your idea of fun is getting into a screaming fight with your fridge, I highly recommend you pick one up. SmartShopper […]
This month on Culinate: The stinking rose I’d long dismissed pre-peeled garlic cloves as being in the same category as those jars of minced garlic, which are pretty bad. But I was intrigued for two reasons. First, Gower is a great cook. Second, you don’t argue about garlic with Koreans.
As you may know, I write a monthly taste-test column for Seattle Magazine. For a long time it wasn’t available online, but now they’re posting some of them on the magazine’s web site. For example: Ethan Stowell on Olive Oil Joseba Jiménez de Jiménez on Sherry Vinegar Tamara Murphy on Bacon You get the idea. […]
Iris and I went for a ride on the monorail this afternoon and stopped for fries at the McDonald’s at Westlake Center. While we were in line, Iris looked up at the big M, turned to me, and asked: “Dada, how do you know this place has fries?”
When Iris was born, she received a gift from the Seattle Public Library: a free board book. I chose My Food/Mi Comida by Rebecca Emberley. (I also got to thinking about how I could exploit this free gift thing, maybe by bringing in a huge sack of babies and demanding dozens of free books.) Each […]
