August 2014
How to Prepare the Spicy Sambal Sauce
Wild Ginger executive chef Jacky Lo on the art of making the famed restaurant’s fiery sambal
A face shield and eye goggles aren’t common kitchen tools, unless you’re executive chef Jacky Lo, who, along with his team of cooks at Wild Ginger, gears up each summer with a full-on production line—cooking with more than 3,000 pounds of chiles—to prepare sambal. While they make more than 10 different sambals throughout the year,…
Locally Made Bow Ties and Accessories For the Dapper Man
“Bow ties really reflect an individual’s pride and attention to detail,” says Erin McCoy, owner of Hank’s Haberdashery, a snappy line of dapper bow ties ($40) and pocket squares ($20) available on Etsy. The Eastlake-based McCoy started Hank’s Haberdashery in 2012 as a way to indulge her creative side (she’s a women’s health researcher at…
A Plan for a Mountain Bike Trail is Creating Divisions
Ambitious plans for a neglected green space sparks debate over Seattle Parks’ mountain bike policy
In South Seattle, a forested green space The Seattle Times once called “Walden Pond in urbania” is now a battleground between mountain bikers seeking to bring the sport back to Seattle parks and advocates for undeveloped natural areas that protect wildlife and wetlands. The contested ground in question is Cheasty Greenspace, a 43-acre natural area…
The 2014 Washington Wine-Buying List
Bookmark this list of all the winners and finalists from our 9th Annual Washington Wine Awards
*Download this list as a PDF WHITE WINES White Wine of the YearChateau Ste. Michelle 2012 Eroica Riesling, Columbia Valley, $22 Sauvignon Blanc, $20 or lessWinner: Lobo Hills 2012 Sauvignon Blanc, Yakima Valley, $17 Finalists:Guardian 2012 Angel Sauvignon Blanc, Red Mountain, Klipsun Vineyards, $20 SOLD OUTEfestē 2012 Feral Sauvignon Blanc, Ancient Lakes, Evergreen Vineyard, $20Cedergreen…
2014 Washington Wine Awards Methodology
Nominations for this year’s Washington Wine Awards were solicited via a survey of Washington wine and food professionals. The top vote-getters in the wineries, winemaker, vineyard and sommelier awards were selected as winners. The more than 100 wines receiving the most votes in the varietal categories qualified as finalists for a blind tasting, which took…
9th Annual Seattle Magazine Washington Wine Awards Tasting Panelists
The participants were involved in our March 3, 2014 tasting
Nominations for this year’s Washington Wine Awards were solicited via survey from a panel of Washington wine and food professionals. Read more about how we determined the winners. Tasting panelists who are winemakers were excluded from voting in categories in which their wines were finalists. The names of tasting panelists who were also on the…
How Our 107-Year-Old Pike Place Market Survived
Knute Berger visits Pike Place Market 50 years after its reputed demise
In his poem “Bubbs Creek Haircut,” Beat poet Gary Snyder drew on impressions from a trip through Seattle in the mid-1950s: Seattle has the best for logger gearonce found a pair of good tricouni boots at the under-the-public-market store, Mark Tobey’s scene, torn down I hear—… Not so fast, Snyder. That’s not what happened. At…
This Calamari is Not Your Typical Appetizer
Crack in a box? Yes, indeed.
If you think of chewy, deep-fried rings with a side of dipping sauce when you hear the word “calamari,” get ready to have your mind blown. RockCreek has fried calamari on its menu, but it’s more of a squid dish than your typical appetizer. Technically, it’s called point judith calamari “Kari-Out,” but what it really…
The Best Food Trucks in Seattle
We present our top picks from the latest food truck models
!–paging_filter–h2NEW and NEW-ish/h2pspan style=”color: #ff6600;”[grilled cheese]/spanbrstrongimg src=”/sites/default/files/newfiles/0814_foodtruck_2.jpg” style=”float: left; margin: 10px;” height=”232″ width=”350″Cheese Wizards/strongbrThe Seattle tech community welcomed with open arms Bo and his little brother Tom Saxbe’s playful double-decker safety-yellow grilled-cheese truck two years ago. (Cheese Wizards now stops regularly in and around South Lake Union as well as twice monthly in Bellevue and…
Super Stylish Made-in-Seattle Clothing for Kids
Clothing designer Reina Acab’s new line takes kidswear beyond classic pink and baby blue
!–paging_filter–pRecent Seattle Pacific University apparel program graduate Reina Acab is a rare breed of designer. She’s interested in pushing boundaries with her garments, but mindful of the needs of her audience, which, with her new line, Même, happens to be the 1- to 7-year-old set. With edgy silhouettes (drop-crotch pants) and a minimalist color palette…
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