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Hunting for Majestic Porcini Mushrooms

Hunting for Majestic Porcini Mushrooms

How to use these meaty mushrooms found in the woods

To the English, they’re “penny buns.” French speakers know them as cèpes, Germans say steinpilz. Here, in mushroom-hunting circles, we commonly call them kings, short for king boletes. On restaurant menus you’re more apt to see the Italian word for them, porcini (meaning “little pigs”), since this is the term of commerce for this mushroom…

Make this Refreshing Drink on a Sunny Afternoon

Make this Refreshing Drink on a Sunny Afternoon

Crisp Washington Rieslings and sweet, seasonal peaches combine for a perfect summer sipper

Come summertime at Mark Takagi’s house, you’ll find sangría. And lots of it. “It’s the perfect, refreshing, unpretentious drink on a sunny afternoon,” says Takagi, a wine, beer and spirits specialist of 26 years for Metropolitan Market. “I drink pitchers of it all summer long.” Traditional red sangría is more popular than the white version,…

Seattle Children’s Farmers Market Salad

Seattle Children’s Farmers Market Salad

Ingredients For the salad: · 1 lb English cucumbers, half moon slices · 1 lb. haricots vert, stems trimmed and blanched · 1/2 lb. Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes, quartered · 3 ripe avocados, diced (add immediately before serving) · ½ lb Quinoa, cooked · 1 lb. baby arugula · 1 lb. baby kale · ½ lb….

Former Whole Foods Chef Hired To Revamp Hospital Meals

Former Whole Foods Chef Hired To Revamp Hospital Meals

Seattle Children's Hospital hires chef Ryan Garcia to improve quality of patient meals

In 2007, chef Ryan Garcia and his wife had to spend a stressful week at Seattle Children’s Hospital as the couple’s newborn recovered from the flu. During that time, he ate a lot of the hospital’s food—suffice it to say that when the chance to be on the other side of the plate came up…

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