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…
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…
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Feast Portland is here! You have one last chance to take off work on Friday afternoon and get tickets for the Friday Grand Tasting. Can't do it? There IS still a way you can get a taste of Feast Portland. Back…
Photo Credit: Tom Douglas Restaurants
Tickets are still available for Tom Douglas' Hot Stove Society Food Lovers' Weekend, April 28- 30 in Seattle. The weekend's theme: World Flavors, including Brazilian, Caribbean, Chinese, French, Indian, Malaysian and Persian cuisines. The weekend kicks off on Friday night with a reception and demos, followed by two days of eating,…
Portland is a world-class food city, no question. Every time we visit, I’m impressed with the restaurants, the quality of the farmers market and with the humbleness of its chefs. While Feast Portland is a mainly a celebration of Oregon food and wine, the event attracts chefs and purveyors from the across the country. The…
Is anyone ever really ready for summer to be over? Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer is nearly here, but the thing is, as long as the weather holds out, why let the party end? Why not take a half day on Friday, 9/16? Get a ticket for Feast Portland’s Friday Grand Tasting and…
At Tom Douglas' Culinary Camp, breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
What do you eat after Tom Douglas' Culinary Camp, a five-day eating extravaganza that started with foie gras and caviar and ended with Chinese barbecued pork, chicken and sausage? On Friday, my total consumption was: coffee, half a peach, a graham cracker with peanut butter, a package of Top Ramen, a small kale salad and a corn tortilla quesadilla. It was a far cry from the previous day, which started with an array of Bavarian meats, soft pretzels and beer.
When I heard Tom Douglas was going to be at Costco signing copies of the Dahlia Bakery Cookbook
a couple of months ago, I expected organized chaos a la Giada de Laurentiis’ signing. I rolled in about 30 minutes before it was slated to start and Tom was already there. No need to pre-purchase a book, get in line outside and have a handler scribble your name on a post-it for the inscription. I walked right up, got a book (one for me, and one for my mom), had a chance to have a little chat with Tom and then was on my merry way for the rest of my Costco shop.
