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  • If you live in Seattle…

    If you live in Seattle…

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    …you can have Craig’s sister, Kristin, as a waitress. Go visit her at her restaurant, The Fremont Classic, and tell her I sent you. This is her waiting on us last week:…you can also be in Craig’s movie! If you want to be an extra, send an e-mail to info@trueadolescents.com with a brief physical description,…

  • Happy Trails

    Happy Trails

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    Yee-haw: that’s me, Molly and Kristin (Craig’s sister) on horseback at the top of Tiger Mountain. We went horseback riding yesterday (both Molly and Kristin have experience with horses; I don’t–which made trotting very painful) and it’s the best $60 I’ve spent in a long time. I’m heading back to New York tomorrow so until…

  • Into The Pages of Gourmet Magazine, A Summer Dinner Party Spectacular

    Into The Pages of Gourmet Magazine, A Summer Dinner Party Spectacular

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    I recall a movie from my childhood–“The Peanut Butter Solution”–at the end of which a young boy whose hair has fallen out (I don’t exactly remember why) enters a room filled with magical, sparkly, landscape paintings. The paintings, you soon learn, are enterable: whichever one he picks, he can walk into. And I felt like…

  • An Impromptu Food Blogger Meet-Up

    An Impromptu Food Blogger Meet-Up

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    Fate must be a fan of food blogs. It just so happens that my arrival in Seattle coincided with the arrival of David Lebovitz who you may recognize from the lyrics to a pretty brilliant song. The Seattle food blog militia got together and planned a dinner in my honor (David doesn’t have any honor)…

  • Two Seattle Sandwiches (Consumed at Crave & The Baguette Box)

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    Here are two sandwiches to enjoy in Seattle. In both cases, I was stranded at a coffee shop in Capitol Hill (Victrola on the first day, Vivace on the second day) because Craig, who has meetings throughout the day, drops me off at these places so I can do my own work while he does…

  • In Praise Of Simple Syrup

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    Coffee drinkers in summer do well to ice their drinks–an iced latte is my summer coffee drink of choice. Smart coffee shops (Joe in New York, Victrola and Vivace here in Seattle) understand that raw sugar doesn’t dissolve in a cold drink. So iced latte drinkers are normally left with two unpleasant options: grainy sugar…

  • From The Dept. of Unfortunate Food Business Names (As Seen In Seattle)

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    Not sure which is worse: this or the relatively new Vegan restaurant that opened up near me in Park Slope: “The V Spot.”

  • Anthos

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    We leave Seattle for a moment to talk about Anthos, where I ate with my parents a few weeks ago. I wasn’t going to write about it–not because I didn’t like it, but because the room was so dark and my pictures didn’t come out so great and I wanted to do the food justice–but…

  • Needs

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    I used to sleep with two pillows. I’d lay one carefully on top of the other and fall asleep with my head elevated: my dreams took place very high off the ground. And then, one day, I slept over a friend’s house and he only had one pillow to give me. I couldn’t sleep. When…

  • Campfire Cooking

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    The tents are in the car, the sleeping bags are rolled and ready, and tomorrow we leave bright and early to go camping on the beach. Last night I asked Craig if we could build a campfire and he said “Sure” and I said, “Maybe I can cook on it?” And he said, “Nothing too…