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Tue 19 Jan 2010 9:21 pm

Seattle Food & Wine Ticket Giveaway



The Seattle Food & Wine Experience is coming up Feb. 28 at Seattle Center, and the organizers are giving away a pair of tickets to our readers.

What can you expect? 

For the wine part of the experience, the posted list of participants includes DeLille Cellars, Erath, McCrea, and 100+ more, with breweries to boot. Around 20 eateries are signed up, from Maximus/Minimus (out of hibernation for the day) and Frost Doughnuts to Artisanal and Campagne and — yes, seriously, check out what these folks have been doing – the Tulalip Casino’s restaurant, Tulalip Bay. Kathy Casey will give a signed cookbook to the first 300 guests.

Tickets are $49 apiece (with a portion going to the non-profit Beecher’s Flagship Foundation), which gets you unlimited samples of food and non-alcoholic beverages, and 50 tasting tickets for alcoholic drinks (at 1-3 tickets per taste). Interested in a chance to get in for free? Just leave a comment here telling me what you like (or, if you prefer, what you don’t like) to see at food festivals. We’ll pick the winner using a random number generator at 9 p.m. PST on Feb. 2.

Updated 2/2 to announce that our random number generator has picked comment #19, Dave, as our winner! Congratulations! 

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Tue 12 Jan 2010 11:22 pm

Indulge Adventurously



I wrote about our old friends the Mangalitsa pigs in the new issue of Cooking Light, as part of the magazine’s list of ten ways to eat right in 2010. Yes, those pigs — the ones that inevitably draw the words “fatty, lardy, rich” in any word association game — in Cooking Light. The logic is that the porkers fall under the heading of “Indulge Adventurously,” meaning that “a healthy approach to eating includes permission to satisfy that part of the soul that craves truffles, butter, chocolate, or cheese –in modest proportions.”  (A small serving of Mangalitsa is rich enough to be more satiating than a less modest plate of a lot of other chops, for that matter.) Mag editor Scott Mowbray wrote that he knew the idea “may provoke a few double takes” alongside more typical health-conscious rules like “Eat More Whole Foods” and “Choose Healthy Fats”. However, “What we believe is simply this: The revival of farmers markets, the awareness of the environment, the national excitement about chefs, the relaxing of black-and-white ideas about fat, carbs, and fiber, the reaffirming of food’s role in healthy social interaction — it’s all good. It can be knit together in a positive, nurturing, cook-centered, and fun approach to healthy eating…”

A few excerpts from the print story are over here, though I don’t see the full version online. Other writers contributed nifty pieces on topics like cooking at home (if Grant Achatz can do it, so can you).

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Mon 11 Jan 2010 1:21 am

Jane and Michael Stern Coming to Town



Jane and Michael Stern are coming to Benaroya Hall Tuesday as part of the Seattle Arts & Lectures series. I wrote a bit on Al Dente about whether the Sterns and their Roadfood writings are still relevant in the age of Yelp. (The answer: Heck yes.) 

The last time the Sterns came to Seattle, I had the happy task of trying to share some of Seattle’s best Roadfood bets with them. It was surprisingly tough, as I discussed here. 

In the three years since that tour, though, Seattle seems to have added another layer of eating out, a new willingness to expand beyond the fine-dining and into the just plain fine. This time, I’d send the Sterns any number of new places — Lunchbox Laboratory, Skillet, Marination Mobile, just for starters.

Where do you think they should eat? And if you want to dine with them, albeit in fancier digs, they’ll also be speaking at a fund-raising dinner to benefit Arts & Lectures at the Palace Ballroom Monday night.

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