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

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

    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

    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)…

  • La Carta de Oaxaca

    La Carta de Oaxaca

    You know you’re in love with a restaurant when you have a specific craving for it. Usually when I visit a different city, I like to eat all my meals at different places to make the most of my trip. But yesterday after horseback riding (more on that later!) I turned to Kristin, Craig’s sister,…