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Shiga's Garden: fittingly, a story of sunshine and cooperation

Posted Tue, Oct 13, 6 a.m.

Volunteers, artists, and an absentee landowner are together creating a P-Patch honoring the father of the University District Street Fair.

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A taste of the next mayor's diet

Posted Tue, Sep 29, 6 a.m.

By Ann Bauer

With one candidate "born to eat," the other fighting the "campaign 15" pounds, the road to Seattle City Hall is paved with good intentions ... and chocolate bunny crackers.

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Humor: That's a lot of potatoes!

Posted Sat, Sep 26, 10:54 a.m.

By Steve Clifford

Some are even edible, and they come with a great deal of Irish lore and meaning for the author's fragile sense of identity.

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Braised words: 'Julie & Julia' inspires a retro writing experiment

Posted Fri, Sep 25, 6 a.m.

By Matt Fikse

The popular movie about Julia Child inspires our writer — not to cook with lots of butter, but to write longhand, and then use a typewriter and carbon paper. Tasty lessons result.

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At the food bank

Posted Mon, Sep 14, 5:28 p.m.

By Anthony B. Robinson

Many languages. Way too many carbs and sugars. Few takers for the gallon bags of mustard.

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Doc, got anything to make me immortal?

Posted Thu, Aug 27, 6 a.m.

By Robert Fortner

They're working on it, and the average life span just went up another 72 days. Here's a survey of some current scientific approaches to reversing aging.

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A tasty dash through Northwest wine country

Posted Fri, Jul 31, 6 a.m.

By Harris Meyer

Among the highlights: the wineries in the new Lake Chelan appellation, where a cooler climate is producing Alsatian-style whites.

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Showdown at Icicle Creek

Posted Wed, Jul 15, 6 a.m.

By Daniel Jack Chasan

A long dispute over the way U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service operates its hatchery has moved to the courts. The case involves a prominent nearby landowner, Harriet Bullitt, and sheds light on the impact of hatcheries and water diversions.

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Throwing a hissy fish

Posted Mon, Jun 15, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

PETA objects to the Pike Place fish tossers, but they'd do better if they focused on a real menace: fish sticks.

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Starbucks has a G.M. moment

Posted Mon, Jun 8, 6 a.m.

By Matt Fikse

Judging by its latest ad campaign, Starbucks is losing touch with its customers, just as G.M. did. So here's a suggestion to turn the coffee giant around.

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And for Seattle's next 'world's fair,'...

Posted Fri, Jun 5, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Puget Sound boosters are proposing to launch an annual Global Health Celebration in 2012 to re-brand Seattle for the new century.

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Local motion

Posted Fri, May 15, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

A Seattle native sees progress in our foodie culture, but being a locavore is what we did before someone thought up that name

The dive king

Posted Fri, May 8, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

If Rick Steves were a drunk, this might be the book he'd write. Seattle's grittiest bars and taverns are the subject of a new guide to local dives, shadowy repositories of the real, slurring-its-words Seattle.

Hard times. What would Forrest Gump do?

Posted Wed, Apr 8, 6 a.m.

By Kent Kammerer

He may be the last person highly educated Seattleites would turn to, but he had excellent lessons for coping with a deep recession.

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NW wine industry: worries and bargains

Posted Thu, Feb 26, 6 a.m.

By Harris Meyer

Economic squeeze challenges vineyards and rewards consumers

Humor: A portfolio for hard times

Posted Sun, Feb 22, 6:22 p.m.

By Steve Clifford

It's time to start allocating your assets for the apocalypse. Dog food is a particularly good play at this time, for instance.

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Budget trip for the new year: Khirghizstan

Posted Mon, Jan 5, 6 a.m.

By Steve Clifford

Our humorist offers a cheap alternative to last year's "staycation."

Five things that make even a Mossback happy

Posted Sat, Jan 3, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Set aside the nostalgia for a moment, and consider the good aspects of the new Seattle. Really.

Self-congratulatory environmentalism

Posted Tue, Dec 23, 6 a.m.

By Adam Vogt

Back East, folks somehow think it's enough to carry a reusable bag to a farmer's market. That prompts a screed against saving the earth with symbols.

The science of chocolate

Posted Thu, Nov 13, midnight

By Michele Solis

A Fremont shop will show you how chocolate goes from bean to bar.

Other media

Inside B.C.'s illegal abalone poaching business The valuable delicacy, which Canada is trying to rebuild by protecting, is the center of a multinational poaching network.

VANCOUVER SUN

Northwest hops growers stuck with a glut Two years ago, there was a shortage, prompting growers to plant heavily. Bad move. But don't expect beer prices to drop.

THE OREGONIAN

Soil expert says wine industry talk about "terroir" is mostly hokum Vintners obsess over minerals in their soil but its effect on taste in wine is below the threshold of human taste, says a geologist who consults to the industry.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Food co-op with an attitude You thought the West Coast had a monopoly on successful organic ventures? Fuhgeddaboutit. This co-op grocery is in Brooklyn, it's got 15,000 members, and every one of them volunteers to work at the store. Or else.

NEW YORK TIMES

How much CO2 does your bowl of breakfast oatmeal emit? The Swedes, not surprisingly, can tell you. The environmentally obsessive nation has new food label guidelines that spell out the amount of carbon dioxide emissions associated with everything from pea soup to pickled herring.

NEW YORK TIMES

Blog posts

Barkeep: Another 'moderate' round, please!

Posted Sun, Oct 18, 3:09 p.m.

by Knute Berger

Health experts say that "moderate" drinking is practically no drinking at all, but that's not what they show on Mad Men. Nor would it sustain the Northwest economy.

Regional domestic porn

Posted Mon, Oct 5, 2:33 p.m.

by Feliks Banel

With foodie magazines closing, one addict worries mightily about what his life would be like without the glow of Sunset.

Starbucks' midlife crisis

Posted Fri, Jul 17, noon

by Knute Berger

On Seattle's Capitol Hill, the coffee company is ditching its brand for a hipper, indie-friendly make-over.

With street food goes responsibility

Posted Thu, Jun 18, 6 a.m.

by Knute Berger

Just what is Seattle's favorite, indigenous hot dog of choice?

A gross anecdote to chew over

Posted Mon, Jun 15, 4 p.m.

by Knute Berger

Seattle scores high on another list of top places to visit.

Vancouver has Starbucks withdrawal pains

Posted Tue, Apr 21, 6 a.m.

by David Brewster

The grieving B.C. city needs to recall how it inspired Starbucks in the first place, with a little help from Berkeley

Lower prices for wine? Don't drink to that.

Posted Wed, Mar 25, noon

by Harris Meyer

Big-box retailers such as Costco want volume discounting, but the state Liquor Board, as usual, fears any such moves would lead to too much tippling. A look at this year's harvest of proposed wine laws.