Eat a Peach: The Review Amazon Didn’t Want You to See

Review Copy Provided by the Publisher I received a review copy of David Chang's Eat a Peach from Clarkson Potter and attempted to submit my review to Amazon today. It's shorter form than I would have done for the blog, but when Amazon rejected it, I knew I needed to put it up immediately. Was…

ByMichelleSeptember 8, 20200Comments

Book Reviews

Food Fiction: Mixing it Up by Tracie Banister | Review

**Book provided by the author for review** In Mixing it Up, Cecily Sinclair is living the dream — she’s a Cordon Bleu-trained chef with her own Cable TV cooking show, Serving Romance. After the network is acquired by another media conglomerate, Cecily keeps her job, but the show undergoes a major makeover as the network tries…

ByMichelleSeptember 21, 20170Comments

Recipes

Six Delicious Summer Dishes from Josh McFadden’s Six Seasons

Israeli-spiced tomatoes with yogurt and chickpeas from Joshua McFadden's Six Seasons cookbook. I first cooked from Six Seasons, Josh McFadden's vegetable-centric cookbook, before it came out in May. Spring took its time getting here in the Pacific Northwest and I only had a chance to cook a few recipes before summer came on full force. I'm…

ByMichelleAugust 29, 20170Comments

Book Reviews

Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden | Review

Cucumber, Celery and Apricots with Pistachios from Josh McFadden's Six Seasons. **ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review** 2017 seems poised to deliver a bumper crop of vegetable cookbooks. Josh McFadden, chef of Portland's Ava Gene's, rolled out Six Seasons in May; Chef Jenn Louis' Book of Greens and Jeremy Fox's On Vegetables both came…

ByMichelleJune 22, 20170Comments

Restaurants

First Look: Chef Jason Wilson’s the Lakehouse Opens in Bellevue

The Lakehouse opens today at the Lincoln Square Expansion in Bellevue. Helmed by Jason Wilson, chef-owner of Seattle's Miller's Guild, the restaurant is an elegant interpretation of northwest vacation homes of the past. It reads like an architect's getaway with artisan touches throughout the space, from hand thrown stoneware dishes to custom knives made by a bladesmith in…

ByMichelleJune 15, 20170Comments

Events Restaurants Travel

Feast Tofino: Food Fest West Coast Style

If you’re driving to Tofino, British Columbia, the last major leg is the pass connecting Port Alberni with Ucluelet and Tofino. It’s a windy road and in the winter, chains are required. The thing is, that’s until the end of March. But then, April stretches into May and it’s Spring – harvest time on British Columbia’s…

ByMichelleMay 17, 20160Comments

Book Reviews

Fiction for the Food Obsessed: Nuts by Alice Clayton

Finally, a rom-com that does food right! Usually food is an accidental backdrop in a story. Hero and heroine meet cute at a farmers market, or there's a front-of-the-house hookup between host and bartender in a restaurant, but the food is usually window dressing rather than a focus. In the last couple of months, I've read two…

ByMichelleMarch 4, 20160Comments