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We’re counting down the Christmas shopping days with an editors’ gift guide. Check back daily to find out our must-have items this holidayFrom hops to Hoosier pie, these new books by local authors celebrate the intersection of food, drink and family in heartwarming and sometimes unexpected ways. Cameron Psiaki Follow Seattle magazine contributor and local…
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We’re counting down the Christmas shopping days with an editors’ gift guide. Check back daily to find out our must-have items this holiday season. Local jewelry designer Regina Chang struck a particularly Pacific Northwest cord with her nature-inspired fall line ($40-300). Heavy on earthy materials like geodes, agates, silver–even driftwood–Chang’s latest work is rustic, statment-making…
Tom Douglas Rethinks Kitchen Wares
His new line on amazon.com is cooking stuff for frugal brainiacs and so logical even Spock would app
There are no unitaskers allowed and prices range from low to more-than-reasonable for ingenious restaurant-quality kitchen equipment. Tom Douglas wants everyone to get in the kitchen and cook, and to have a much easier time doing it. He has spent the last 1 ½ years at home and in his restaurant kitchens testing and improving an…
The David Barton Project: Counting Down the Days
Follow Seattle mag editorial assistant Jacquie Perez as she blogs her way through the excruciating p
Hi, readers! If you’re one of the few people that noticed (besides you, mom), I apologize for being MIA for the last two weeks. It turns out a full-time job can really cut into one’s blogging time. I was still working out though – I don’t think coming down with the plague could get me…
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We’re counting down the Christmas shopping days with an editors’ gift guide. Check back daily to find out our must-have items this holiday season. What do you get when you take a bunch of really, really good bacon, and render it down with spices and onions? Bacon jam! The folks at Skillet Street Food have…
Savor Specialty Foods opens in Ballard
Husband-wife team Steve Klemaier and Holly McLean serve up everything from gourmet gluten-free cooki
Where else can you find Iberico ham, carefully selected wines, Fran’s chocolates, and local cheeses–all in charming spot? Husband-wife team Steve Klemaier and Holly McLean opened the doors today to Savor Specialty Foods in Ballard–a store every passionate food lover needs to check out. At Savor Specialty Foods, you’ll find cured meats from Boccalone (I’ve…
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We’re counting down the Christmas shopping days with an editors’ gift guide. Check back daily to find out our must-have items this holiday season. THE 2010 NIKKI MCCLURE REVIVE CALENDAROlympia artist Nikki McClure’s signature graphic paper-cut designs run throughout this 11-by-11-inch calendar in bold black and white and a few pops of color. McClure’s date-checker…
Claudio Corallo Chocolates move to S. Lake Union
Check out this little gem for their gourmet chocolates, and little pastries made by Le Gourmand.
stunning, delicious chocolate from Claudio Corallo Last weekend, I was walking by the Whole Foods in S. Lake Union when I noticed a little store filled with customers crowded around a small glass-topped counter. Upon closer inspection, I realized this was the new location of Claudio Corallo chocolates, formerly located in Ballard.)The store is small and…
The Must List: December 17-23
Our top-do's for the week
Our top to-do’s for this Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday MUST TASTEART’s Chocolate BuffetThursday (12/17) · Two words: Chocolate buffet. Need we say more? Okay, fine: Earl Grey chocolate tart. White chocolate panna cotta. Spiked hot cocoa. Drooling yet? Thursday is your last chance–ART Restaurant (located in the Four Seasons) is offering an incredible spread of chocolate…
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We’re counting down the Christmas shopping days with an editors’ gift guide. Check back daily to find out our must-have items this holiday season. Looking for some new tunes? Pick up Caffe Vita GIVE, a $7, 30-track compilation CD featuring Northwest darlings the Fleet Foxes, Common Market, Cave Singers, and Sera Cahoone, among others. Proceeds…
High Time for Eagles
Check Out Eagles and Salmon on the Skagit River
If immersing yourself in the natural history of the Pacific Northwest is your idea of a good time, be sure to check out the North Cascades Institute’s single-day field excursion “Eagles and Salmon: Northwest Icons on the www.roddyscheer.com src=http://www.roddyscheer.com/xfer/USWASK-00378.jpg padding=6 /> Skagit.” That’s just what I did this past weekend, and came away with a…
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Seven-foot tall nutcrackers make this restaurant holly jolly, and Santa himself shows up on the week
The dining rooms at Salty’s restaurants look like huge toy boxes this December, as 7-foot tall hand painted nutcrackers, along with lots of smaller nutcrackers, lights and holiday decorations turn them into holiday wonderlands. With the amazing water views that each restaurant has there are marvels everywhere you look. The larger-than-life nutcrackers, inspired by Seattle’s…