Tom Douglas’ Cookbook Social Celebrates Northwest Authors & Artisans

Join the Festivities at Palace Ballroom on December 10 For all the home cooks and aspiring home cooks in your life, there's no better place to look for gifts this holiday season than Tom Douglas' Cookbook Social. At the Palace Ballroom on December 10, this year's line up includes two of my favorites from the…

ByMichelleDecember 5, 20180Comments

Events

PCC COMMUNITY MARKETS NOW OPEN IN BURIEN

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…

ByMichelleMay 25, 20180Comments

Photo One-offs

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Author Kevin Kwan Signs at University Bookstore

Author Kevin Kwan stopped at University Bookstore in Mill Creek on Sunday. Part of a three-city mini tour in the Pacific Northwest, Kwan promoted the paperback release of book #3 in the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, Rich People Problems. Kwan read from the book and answered a wide range of questions about the books, the…

ByMichelleMay 7, 20180Comments

Book Reviews Recipes

CHINESE SOUL FOOD by Hsiao-Ching Chou | Book Review + Recipe

Stir-fries in Chinese Soul Food are so fast, I made the Chinese Rice Cakes with Chicken and the Beef with Asparagus on the same night. Chinese Soul Food is a book you'll actually cook from, not just look at the pretty pictures I've had the good fortune to attend one of Hsiao-Ching Chou's dumpling classes at…

ByMichelleApril 9, 20180Comments

Book Reviews Events

TOM DOUGLAS COOKBOOK SOCIAL KICKS OFF THE HOLIDAY SEASON

The Tom Douglas Cookbook Social comes to the Palace Ballroom on December 4. This year's line up is a who's who of Seattle and Portland chefs, you have to admit it's been a pretty great year for cookbooks. The $20 entrance fee puts a glass of wine in your hand and gets you tastes from several…

ByMichelleNovember 13, 20170Comments

Book Reviews

My Rice Bowl by Rachel Yang and Jess Thomson

Grilled Chinese Broccoli with Walnut Pesto and Garlic Confit from My Rice Bowl by Rachel Yang and Jess Thomson. I have been having the best time cooking from My Rice Bowl by Rachel Yang and Jess Thomson. It might surprise you to hear that this isn't strictly a Korean cookbook. A rice bowl, that's bibimbap, right?…

ByMichelleOctober 2, 20170Comments

Events Restaurants

The Carlile Room’s ‘Work Release’ Series Goes to South Texas

When you're out to dinner, you have to make the choice between whether you're there to enjoy the food or shoot it. If you're with friends, you might be able to get away with standing up in the middle of the meal to get an overhead shot, but when you're seated communally, not so much.…

ByMichelleOctober 27, 20160Comments

Book Reviews Restaurants Travel

Around the Fire Dinner at the Carlile Room

Most of the time when you pick up a cookbook, you have no way of knowing how much you're gonna get out of it. Gorgeous photos, sure, but as you look through, how many of these recipes will you really make? So when you have an opportunity to have a pro put together a dinner…

ByMichelleJuly 20, 20160Comments

Book Reviews Cooking

PURE FOOD by Kurt Beecher Dammeier |Book Review

Pure Food: A Chef’s Handbook for Eating Clean, with Healthy, Delicious Recipes by Kurt Beecher Dammeier     -- 3 and 1/2 stars **ARC provided by the publisher for review** Effort to get Americans cooking and eating clean gets a bump this week with the release of Kurt Beecher Dammeier’s latest cookbook, Pure Food. The…

ByMichelleJuly 6, 20161Comment

Events Just for Fun

Issaquah Farmers Market Returns May 7

What a week. May the Fourth, Cinco de Mayo and maybe most importantly – the return of Farmers Market season in the Pacific Northwest. {Cue the fanfare!} After a weirdly warm winter, the Issaquah and Redmond Saturday markets return on Saturday, May 7. While the first weeks of the season are usually all about asparagus, radishes, rhubarb,…

ByMichelleMay 4, 20160Comments

PCC COMMUNITY MARKETS NOW OPEN IN BURIEN

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Author Kevin Kwan Signs at University Bookstore

CHINESE SOUL FOOD by Hsiao-Ching Chou | Book Review + Recipe

My Rice Bowl by Rachel Yang and Jess Thomson

The Carlile Room’s ‘Work Release’ Series Goes to South Texas

Around the Fire Dinner at the Carlile Room

PURE FOOD by Kurt Beecher Dammeier |Book Review

Issaquah Farmers Market Returns May 7

Book Review: A Ghastly Catastrophe by Deanna Raybourn

The Fourth Princess by Janie Chang

26 New Asian and Pacific Islander Books for your 2026 TBR