Archive for July, 2009

123 Fake Street

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Last year, my local Starbucks location slated to close. Okay, “my local Starbucks” is a joke, since there are five Starbucks within a short walk of my house. Anyway, one of them was put on the closure list. Instead of closing, however, it shut down for a couple of weeks and has now reopened as […]

More monkey than ever

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

If you live in Seattle or have access to the Internet, you have the opportunity to hear or see me in the next couple of weeks. If you have already heard and seen enough of me, don’t worry! The book promotion is winding down and I can go back to whatever it is I usually […]

Smeltings

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Smelt season is back. I was at Uwajimaya yesterday and there they were, beautiful silver smelt, some with roe, for $2.79/lb. Iris has been asking for smelt as her pick of the week every week for like two months, so I’m glad they’re finally here. Cooking smelt could not be more simple. You can clean […]