I've got France on the brain this week. France and Croatia are headed to the World Cup final, I'm reading the Paris Wedding, then Bastille Day falls on Saturday. It's all France all the time. So it should come as no surprise that it creeped into my cooking as well. French Potato Salad with Green…
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In Mr. HotShot CEO, Jackie Lau delivers equal parts sizzle and serious. It’s a rom-com that doesn’t rely on extremes to create attraction between its already magnetic main characters.
Mr. HotShot CEO continues the Kwan Sisters series, this time pairing Courtney Kwan with Fong Investments CEO Julian Fong.…
Tickets are still available to marquee events at this year's Feast Portland, September 13-16, 2018. If you missed out on the sold out Franklin Barbecue and Friends dinner, you can still get a taste of Aaron Franklin's cooking at 80's vs. 90's, a brand new event at this year's Feast. Twenty chefs from Portland and…
If your budget won't let you take a trip to Europe this summer, try one of these summer reads and get away to Scotland, Oxford, Paris and even the wine country in Burgundy.
If you like your summers drenched in sunshine, but with a light sweater, check out Jenny Colgan's The Endless Beach. In it, Flora…
I'm still not over The Americans finale. It was such a satisfying piece of television, you want to go back to the beginning and watch the six seasons over again. Bingeing it, I think you'd have a different sense of how the show's relationships developed -- Philip and Elizabeth as a married couple with…
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Honest, Sexy, and A Summer Must Read Romance
Helen Hoang’s THE KISS QUOTIENT is a stellar debut. About a woman with autism who hires an escort to teach her the ins and outs of sex and romantic relationships, THE KISS QUOTIENT is sexy, smart, and a fantastic showcase…
In Roni Loren's THE ONE YOU CAN'T FORGET, Rebecca's relationship with Wes is a catalyst for trying new things, which for her, includes Indian food.
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Roni Loren’s The Ones Who Got Away series follows a group of friends 10 years after they survived a school shooting. Book 1 was…
This month, @RainyDayBites' Instagram-based cookbook baked from Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh. There have been some pretty impressive bakes and a whole lotta butter spread across several feeds. The two challenges for the month were Blackberry and Star Anise Friands (p. 103) and Take Home Chocolate Cake (p. 152).
I don't consider myself an…
SPEAKEASY, book #5 in Sarina Bowen’s True North series pairs May Shipley and Alec Rossi in a scorcher of a romance that has hidden layers.
PCC Community Markets opened its 12th store this week in Burien. The largest community-owned food market in the United States, Burien PCC is the co-op's first store south of Seattle. It features an in-store taqueria, pizzeria, and yogurt bar with Pure Èire dairy. It's also the only store in the group to offer freshly ground peanut…
