Reservation Watch
The family-style feasts are selling out fast, so get on in there if you’re going.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Aug 23, 2011 at 09:29AM
Reserve now to experience a Moroccan feast or apple harvest dinner at the Pantry.
Photo: The Pantry at Delancey via Facebook
The Pantry at Delancey’s family dinner—it changes monthly and is held twice per lunar cycle—is sold out in September.
And one of November’s apple harvest dinners is already booked too. (The meal on November 3 has seats remaining.)
Also available: Places at the table during both of October’s Moroccan feasts. Call or email to secure your spot.
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In the Spotlight
She’s one of Gourmet Live’s “50 Women Game-Changers” of food.
Posted by: Christopher Werner on May 23, 2011 at 10:28AM
Molly Wizenberg is at it again, doing Seatown proud and keeping company with the Great Ones.
Late last week Gourmet Live published a list of 50 Women Game-Changers, a rundown of “the most important women in food. Period.” On it are writers, editors, TV personalities, and toques from around the world, from years past and today. Claiming the twentieth spot is Seattle’s Wizenberg. Gourmet writes: Orangette, a blog circa 2004, has great, accessible recipes, and Wizenberg famously spun a book deal (A Homemade Life), a restaurant (Seattle’s Delancey), and a husband (Brandon) out of the blog. Not in that order—and, as she winningly relates, unintentionally.
Hazard a guess as to who is No. 1?
P.S. Wizenberg is speaking at a UW fundraiser on May 26 should you care to hear the game changer speak.
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In the Spotlight
She’s one busy girl.
Posted by: Christopher Werner on May 19, 2011 at 01:54PM
Molly Wizenberg barely had time to pose for this photo.
Chances are by now you’ve scoped out Gilt Taste, the edible offshoot of the wildly popular online marketplace Gilt Groupe. The site just launched yesterday, and behind it is a corps of culinary heavyweights (Ruth Reichl, Melissa Clark, Francis Lam) plus an also-impressive list of contributors. Notice a familiar name on that roster?
It seems Seattle’s Molly Wizenberg, Orangette blogger, Delancey co-owner, A Homemade Life author, will pen prose for Gilt while also drafting a new memoir for Simon & Schuster, named for the Ballard pizzeria.
Molly, care to share any time management tips? We’re all ears.
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Eat Your Television
Mission Sustainable and Spilled Milk are two funny and informative new A/V endeavors from Seattle food folks.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 08, 2010 at 02:28PM
I had a good time watching the pilot of Mission Sustainable, the Seattle-based television program bent on showing families some inconvenient truths about their home lives.
In this introductory episode, a team of experts invades the house of one brave local family. Seasonal Cornucopia founder Becky Selengut handles the kitchen, testifying to the evils of superprocessed breakfast sausage and farm-raised frozen shrimp, then taking the featured family on a trip to Mutual Fish and, later, presenting them with organic cake mixes courtesy of PCC.
Earnest but charming, Mission Sustainable manages to walk that thin line between informative and wonky/preachy, and the advice is very down-to-earth and approachable. I really hope it finds a home out there in TV Land. You can help that effort, by the way, by watching the pilot on the website and commenting. See site for details.
Then there is Spilled Milk, the podcast collab between Molly Wizenberg (the local lady behind the world-famous Orangette blog) and her very funny friend Matthew Amster-Burton, author of the book Hungry Monkey. Take a listen to that over here.
The junk food episode is already legendary.
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Seven easy steps!
A survival guide to the hottest restaurant in town
Posted by: Kathryn Robinson on Dec 14, 2009 at 08:00AM
Went to Delancey the other night and got in. You know Delancey, the pizza destination brought to upper Ballard by Orangette blogger Molly Wizenberg and her partner Brandon Pettit. Impenetrably packed. Two-hour waits.
But I got in on a Friday night and now I have some tips.
1. Come on a Friday. The staff tells us they have no idea why but that’s your best shot for a table. Unless you’re planning to…
2.…arrive with a party of six. Then you can make a reservation and just sail on up. Do this.
3. Come at 5pm. No wait at all when they’ve just opened their doors. Unless you’re waiting for them to open their doors.
4. Get Danielle for your waiter. She gets service, knows the menu, is unflaggingly cheerful and kind, and is completely on your side when it comes to working the kitchen. Love Danielle.
5. Order dessert first. I mean…not to eat it first. Just peruse the list and figure out what you want off the top, both because dessert is the very best thing about Delancey AND because if the sable cookies that accompany the Meyer lemon budiono with anise caramel and candied pistachios aren’t yet cooked—this gives the kitchen time to cook them. And this dessert rocks to high heaven.
6. Wear a sweater. Since it’s winter, and the building is drafty, and you’ll be there early before the place has gotten warm, and those pizza oven jockeys get hot enough to want the doors open…just wear a sweater.
7. Don’t come Dec 23 to Jan 5. No, I’m not trying to clear the joint for my personal use. It’ll be closed.
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Food Finds
Molly Wizenberg, a Seattle blogger loved far and wide, tells us about her own local food loves.
Posted by: Kristin Cordova on Oct 27, 2009 at 01:00PM
After returning from a research trip to Paris in July 2004, Molly Wizenberg glanced down at her candied Orangettes and a blogger was born. A marriage (to Brandon Pettit, her co-owner at Delancey pizzeria in Ballard) and a best-selling book later, this Seattle tastemaker is at the top of her game.
Ingredient of the Moment / Market Stall
I’m really excited about all the apple varieties from Jerzy Boyz. They’re at the U District farmers market. A couple owns it, and they have the greatest heirloom apple varieties. I used their spy gold, which is a cross between the northern spy and the golden delicious, to make a simple, free-form apple tart.
Cookbook
I have this huge stack of cookbooks people have given to me or sent me review copies. It’s 15 books tall! But I’m really excited to read The Grand Central Baking Book [co-authored by Grand Central Baking Company co-owner Piper Davis]. I always really want to bake a lot when the weather gets cold. It will give me ideas for fall.
Guilty Food Pleasure
I don’t know if I believe in guilty pleasures. But I have a real weakness for Cool Ranch Doritos. If I’m on the road and need a snack, there is something about that funky confetti seasoning that I just can’t resist.
Favorite Restaurant
The restaurant I find myself thinking about most often is How to Cook a Wolf. I love the small, warm, cozy space. I just feel good there.
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