By Marguerite Cleveland
Chef Jan Parker came to the culinary field later in life after a career in banking. At the age of 30, with two small children and a husband deployed with…
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Spirits
Holiday Gift Guide: Drink Gear We Dig
The holidays are great but what’s not as great is the annual sweat you work up as you try and find the best gifts for family and friends. You’re on…
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Recipe: Hibiscus Gin Fizz for Drinkable Sunshine
At the Bookstore Bar & Café in downtown Seattle, quirky ingredients are as abundant as the impressive collection of books that spans the walls. Green tea simple syrup, ginger-infused whisky,…
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Recipe: Chuckanut Bay Distillery Bourbon Pork Tenderloins with Horseradish Cream
As a Bellingham, Washington, resident, I love Chuckanut Bay Distillery. The spirits made by my hometown distillery are great, the people are friendly, the mission to slowcraft locally distilled spirits…
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Sip Northwest’s 2018 Best of the NW Tap Takeover!
Join us at TeKu Tavern in Seattle on Thursday, Dec. 6 to celebrate Sip Northwest’s seventh annual Best of the Northwest beer and cider winners! With more than 25 different newly award-winning beers…
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Hood River Wonder with Wanderback Whiskey
Down in Hood River, Oregon, barrels of whiskey sit stored inside a picturesque old red barn on Phil Downer and Sasha Muir’s farm. The couple didn’t exactly foresee that buying the…
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Civic Duties and Civic Cocktails: Five Classic Drinks for Election Night
Soon, the political ads that have bombarded your TV for the last six months will finally disappear and hopefully any stress or nerves will be put to rest Tuesday night….
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Cocktail Recipe: Fog Room’s Kingslayer
It’s tough to pick a focal point at the Fog Room bar in Seattle’s new Charter Hotel (official grand opening tonight!). There’s the view from the lounge’s station on the 16th…
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Cocktail Recipe: The Pompous Mousse
Last month, Seattle-based drinks distributor American Northwest hosted its first live cocktail competition featuring Victoria Distillers‘ Empress 1908 gin. An open call for recipe submissions resulted in 27 creations coming…
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Growing Gains with Chuckanut Bay Distillery
For Chuckanut Bay Distillery, what started as a small distilling operation in 2011 has grown into much more. Following the purchase of the current location in Bellingham, Washington, the distillery released its…
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