Nosh Pit

Taste of the Town: Greg Kucera

The ace curator proves his eye for the fine goes beyond the canvas.

Posted by: Hilary Meyerson on Mar 15, 2011 at 03:14PM 0 Comments

Greg Kucera grins at the thought of Le Pichet’s chicken liver mousse.

Starving artist? How about starving curator?

“When I first opened [the gallery], I didn’t have staff, so every morning for almost a year I would go to the old Cherry Street Deli and have three eggs, three strips of bacon, and three pancakes with lots of butter and honey to tide me over until dinner,” recalls Greg Kucera nearly three decades after launching his eponymous art gallery in downtown Seattle.

But it wasn’t eggs-bacon-pancakes and grumbling tummies for long: soon after its 1983 debut the gallery would ascend to local and national renown, and Kucera was on his way to chicken liver mousse and Neapolitan pies.

Vita, Stumptown, or Starbucks?
I’m a bad Seattleite. I never did drink coffee—saved the thousands of dollars over the years and spent it on art instead. I go to Caffe Vita in Pioneer Square, but only for the happy hour pizzas a few times a week.

Eat to live or live to eat?
Definitely live to eat. Copious amounts of food, thoughtfully prepared, voraciously eaten, rarely regretted.

Where do you take out-of-town guests to eat?
Poppy, Lark, Salumi, Cafe Lago, La Carta de Oaxaca, Wild Ginger, and The Ruins, now that they have a great new dinner chef.

What’s your guilty food pleasure?
Chicken liver mousse with French bread at Le Pichet.

Do you use recipes or wing it?
Wing it! Fly high most of the time, but occasionally bomb out when trying too hard. Some of our best meals are “What’s in the fridge?” kinds of meals. I love to read Cooks Illustrated for informational, how-to-do-it ideas but I often think that creative common sense trumps most recipe writing.

Are you or have you ever been a vegan?
Can’t even imagine all that I’d be giving up. It’s the cheese that I’d have the hardest time resisting.

What’s your desert-island condiment?
Hollandaise sauce! Buckets of it for all that wild boar and spear-caught fish.

Dessert or appetizer?
Appetizers, for sure. My sweet tooth isn’t that fierce but I can often make a meal out of small plates.

Three restaurants that sum up Seattle?
The warmth of the old Surrogate Hostess, the consistent comfort of Cafe Lago, the inventive clarity of Poppy. I’ve also been missing Labuznik. Nothing has taken its place for style and substance.

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Taste of the Town: Ariana Lallone

Pacific Northest Ballet principal Ariana Lallone spins through her favorite Seattle food spots.

Posted by: Hilary Meyerson on Mar 08, 2011 at 02:05PM 1 Comments

Quesadilla on the brain? Ariana Lallone from the PNB performance of Red Angels.

Photo by Angela Sterling

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal Ariana Lallone has been dancing with the company for 24 years, but she’s ending her long run with PNB this June. So if you want to see the twirling beauty do her thing in Seattle, you might want to get on it.

Lallone just wrapped up a PNB production of Cinderella in which she performed the roles of both the evil stepmother and the fairy godmother. Which of the two characters does she resemble most? “Both,” says Lallone, “I’m a gemini!”

She’s also—believe it or not—a foodie. Who knew ballet dancers ate mayonnaise?

Vita, Stumptown, Starbucks?
Still Starbucks.

Favorite way to burn calories?
Class, rehearsal, or performance, and hot yoga at Urban Yoga Spa—when I have the chance to go.

Eat to live or live to eat?
I eat well to stay in shape and to have stamina for dancing, but I get very excited about food. So, I guess a little of both.

Do you use recipes or wing it?
Recipes from my ten year-plus collection of Gourmet magazines. I am also a big fan of Epicurious and Cook’s Illustrated.

What is your guilty pleasure food?
Cheese quesadilla with grilled onions from La Palma, and crispy walnut prawns from Uptown China.

Are you or have you ever been a vegan?
No…too many restrictions.

What is your desert-island condiment?
It’s a tie between mayonnaise and blue cheese dressing.

Dessert or appetizer?
Appetizer.

Three restaurants that sum up Seattle?
Any Ethan Stowell Restaurant, Marjorie, and Boat Street Café.

*Next on the PNB schedule: Contemporary 4.

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Tags: PNB, Taste of the Town, Seattle Ballet

Taste of the Town: Seattle Public Art Program Director Ruri Yampolsky

Picking her favorite Seattle art installation? Almost impossible. Picking her favorite potato chip? Child’s play.

Posted by: Clancey Denis on Mar 01, 2011 at 04:46PM 0 Comments

Seattle Public Art Program director Ruri Yampolsky believes bacon is a condiment.

Photo: Amy Herndon

Seattle was one of the first cities in the US to establish a public art ordinance—meaning that one percent of all construction costs in this city is allocated for the commission and purchase of public art.

The sundial at Gasworks park, the totem poles in Pioneer Square, the upended umbrella on Western Avenue, and the funky red statue underneath the Space Needle are some of the more obvious examples, but there are more—a lot more. Almost 380 permanent installations and over 2,800 portable or temporary works have sprung from the program over the years and grace libraries, parks, street corners and buildings all over the city.

As long as Seattle keeps building, the art will keep on coming.

The woman in charge is Ruri Yampolsky, director of the city’s Public Art Program. She and her team work to “integrate artworks and the ideas of artists into a variety of public settings throughout the city, in a range of artistic expressions,” making Seattle a living, evolving work of art.

Yampolsky was born in Japan but moved to New York City as a toddler, where she would live for the next 28 years—going to college and graduate school and starting a career as an architect. But by 1990 her husband, who grew up on Vashon Island, was sick of living in New York. “He wanted to buy a house, raise kids and be crazy soccer parents in a more relaxed atmosphere,” says Yampolsky. So they moved to Seattle. She redesigned a kitchen for the then-public art director, who later hired her to give technical assistance to artists. She became a project manager, and eventually the director of the Public Art Program.

If she had to recommend one piece of public art in the city that everyone should see? That, she says, is like asking her to pick her favorite child. But, if pressed: “Cal Anderson Park is a wonderful urban open space…. The water feature, called Waterworks, is monumental, interactive, has visual and aural interest and makes use of Seattle’s natural resource, water.”

Choosing favorite foods was way easier.

Eat to live or live to eat?
Eat to live.

Vita, Stumptown, or Starbucks?
We brew Peet’s at home and I carry it to work in a thermal mug.

Favorite way to burn calories?
Fidgeting.

Where do you take out-of-town guests to eat? We mostly cook at home for guests, but I’d take them to Bakery Nouveau, Tilth, Malena’s Taco Shop (for take-out), or Mashiko. If there are a lot of kids, Blue C Sushi.

Do you use recipes or wing it?
Both. My mother is Japanese and everything I learned from her has no quantities specified. I like Ruth Reichl’s Gourmet Today cookbook, and Roasting by Barbara Kafka.

What’s your guilty food pleasure?
Caramelized onion dip from Metropolitan Market with Trader Joe’s ridged potato chips.

Are you or have you ever been a vegan?
No. Eat everything, in moderation. Plus, we now have a trio of backyard chickens—Evita, Imelda and Lacey—and their eggs are amazing.

What’s your desert-island condiment?
Bacon. Seriously. We add it to everything (OK, not everything, but it’s a staple).

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Tags: Taste of the Town, Seattle Public Art

Taste of the Town: Phil Bussey, President and CEO of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce

Pedestrians crossing near a Top Pot doughnut shop, consider yourselves warned.

Posted by: Clancey Denis on Feb 23, 2011 at 12:07PM 0 Comments

Chamber of Commerce prez Phil Bussey has a serious sweet tooth.

As president and CEO of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Phil Bussey knows a thing or two about the city—he has to, it’s his job.

While Bussey’s not from the area (he grew up in Porterville, a small farming community in central California), he’s called Washington home for over 30 years. During those 30 years, he’s immersed himself in local business, eventually becoming a Senior Vice President at Puget Sound Energy. In 2009 he took over at the Chamber of Commerce, and since then he’s been working tirelessly to help ensure that local businesses have the means to thrive.

When he takes a break to grab a bite, here are some of his favorite local treats:

Vita, Stumptown, or Starbucks?
This will probably get me run out of Seattle, but I don’t drink coffee! I do frequent Starbucks as a meeting place and to grab a great hot chocolate.

Eat to live, or live to eat?
My waistline will validate that I live to eat.

Favorite way to burn calories?
Water-skiing or working out at the gym.

Where do you take-out of-town guests to eat?
Wild Ginger.

Do you use recipes or wing it?
I wing recipes—I love taking a recipe and experimenting and toying with it.

What is your guilty food pleasure?
I have to close my eyes when I drive by Top Pot or I’m a goner.

Dessert or appetizer?
Dessert. My resolve always weakens as the dinner progresses.

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Tags: Taste of the Town, Starbucks, Doughnuts, Seattle Restaurants,

Taste of the Town: KEXP’s Kevin Cole

The host of the Afternoon Show talks Twizzlers, veganism, and the five songs nobody should die without hearing.

Posted by: Clancey Denis on Feb 16, 2011 at 03:43PM 0 Comments

You probably always wondered with the host of KEXP’s Afternoon Show looked like.

Some questions are easy for Kevin Cole to answer.

What does he do? He’s the Senior Director of Programming at KEXP and hosts the Afternoon Show every weekday from 2 to 6pm. How long has he been into music? Ever since he was a kid, glued to the radio, hanging on every song. Did he always want a career in music? Yes and no. He wanted to be a rock star, but he also wanted to be a priest, a photographer, and an Olympic athlete. His favorite artist? Prince, hands down. Cole even DJ’d at Prince’s 30th birthday party.

Other questions aren’t quite so easy. The best local bands right now? Seattle has the best music scene in the country, says Cole. But if he had to pick two artists that are “on the precipice of international appreciation for their enormous talents,” it would be Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and the Head and the Heart.

And the hardest question of all, the one that took Cole weeks of hand-wringing concentration to answer: What songs should no person die without hearing? Here is his painstakingly conceived list: The Five Keys, “The Glory of Love; ” Lorraine Ellison, “Stay With Me;” Sigur Ros, “Svefn-G-Englar;” John Coltrane, “A Love Supreme;” and the Arcade Fire, “Wake Up.”

After all that agonizing about music, talking favorite foods was no problem at all.

Eat to live or live to eat?
My whole life is pretty much organized around food and music. While eating one meal I’m thinking about the next. That said, I love clean, healthy food, and definitely eat to live.

Are you or have you ever been a vegan?
Yes, I’ve been every kind of vegetarian. I’ve been vegan, a health food vegetarian, a candy bar vegetarian, macrobiotic, and I am currently a non-dairy occasional fish eater. I’m sure there’s a name for it.

Where do you take out-of-town guests to eat?
Sutra, Bakery Nouveau, and Marination Mobile.

What’s your guilty food pleasure?
Dark chocolate or red Twizzlers.

Favorite way to burn calories?
Jump up and down to Ramones records—or as I like to say, Ramonesersize!

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Tags: Taste of the Town, Vegetarian/Vegan Whatnot, KEXP, Seattle Restaurants

Taste of the Town: Eva Stone

The Chop Shop choreographer says she was destined to live in Seattle, and genetically destined to love food.

Posted by: Clancey Denis on Feb 10, 2011 at 08:33AM 1 Comments

"After 15 years, I’m all salmoned out,” says Eva Stone. She still relishes much of Seattle’s seafood bounty.

This weekend Bellevue hosts Chop Shop, the Eastside’s largest modern dance festival. The woman behind the curtain is Eva Stone, the two-day festival’s producer and Artistic Director of The Stone Dance Collective, a company she founded while living in London in 1993.

The Phoenix, Arizona, native began choreographing in high school, where, she says, a teacher who “knew exactly what to do with students who were wildly creative and equally untrained” guided her. Her technical dance training didn’t begin until college, but she continued on to pursue a masters degree in dance studies. She met and married an Englishman, and they made a deal: She would finish her masters in London while he finished his service in the Royal Air Force.

“After three years he looked at his watch and said, ‘Time to go!’ I cried all the way back to the US. He wanted his chance in the land of opportunity and I wanted to keep my Queen, but a deal is a deal.” So they pulled out a map of the western United States, closed their eyes, and threw down a finger.

London was home, she says, but Seattle was destiny.

One of the reasons the Pacific Northwest is such a good fit? With her Eastern European and Ukrainian gene pool, food isn’t something that she takes lightly—fine dining is her favorite hobby. “The fish in Arizona tasted just like it smelled and was a culinary kiss of death for me. I adore the fresh products available to us in the Northwest, but I will be honest…after 15 years, I’m all salmoned out.”

Vita, Stumptown, or Starbucks? The Walnut Cafe in Edmonds. They serve Vivace beans…enough said!

Favorite way to burn calories? Teaching, choreographing, and cruising Green Lake with my family.

Eat to live or live to eat? Live to eat…gene pool, remember?

Where do you take out-of-town guests to eat? Daniel’s Broiler (killer steaks, great view), Epulo , the 5 Spot for breakfast, and Café Besalu for a treat.

Do you use recipes or wing it? I use my husband, Richard, who is an amazing cook and makes the biggest mess in the kitchen that I most happily clean up. He studies Jacques Pepin and Jamie Oliver and then wings it. It works every time and I’m the luckiest girl in the world.

What’s your guilty food pleasure? Baklava.

Are you or have you ever been a vegan? No. Cheese is too important to ignore.

What’s your desert-island condiment? Branston Pickle. It goes perfectly with cheese.

Dessert or appetizer? Dessert, for that romantic end-of-a-meal sharing experience.

Three restaurants that sum up Seattle? Canlis (an ‘Old Boy’ Seattle standard…wonderful food, service and atmosphere), Le Pichet (the first time I had the chocolate chaude, it brought tears to my eyes), and Lark (love the local, seasonal menus and attention to detail).

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Tags: Bellevue, Dance, Taste of the Town, Chop Shop

Taste of the Town: Nicole Hardy

The local writer tells us where to find the best cheeseburger in Seattle.

Posted by: Hilary Meyerson on Feb 04, 2011 at 11:39AM 5 Comments

Nicole Hardy’s favorite way to burn calories? “Dancing.”

It’s been a whirlwind month for Nicole Hardy. Since her essay, “Single, Female, Mormon, Alone”, ran in the New York Times Modern Love column in early 2011, Hardy, the manager of Circa Neighborhood Grill and Alehouse and an active member of the Seattle Arts and Lecture program Writers in the Schools, has found herself to be a hot topic.

“My phone blew up immediately after—agents wanting to represent me, editors wanting to work with me on a book, notes of empathy from LDS members, Catholics, Baptists, Muslims, Orthodox Jews, Fundamentalist Christians, gay people, straight people, Planned Parenthood employees, atheists, and agnostics.”

Phew. Even so, Hardy squeezed in a call from us to talk Seatown eats.

Where do you take out-of-town guests to eat?
Seattle first-timers like to go to Pike Place Market—I love Maximilien, especially for brunch. Mae Phim Thai under the 99 onramp for something divey and delicious. And Circa Neighborhood Grill and Alehouse in West Seattle. Yes, I’ve worked there for almost 10 years, but I still love to go with guests. There’s a super cozy Cheers-ey feeling, and the best cheeseburger in town.

Vita, Stumptown, or Starbucks?
Stumptown, for sure. I came to coffee late in life and used to say I couldn’t tell good coffee from bad. Then I discovered Stumptown.

What’s your guilty food pleasure?
Quiche, a French 75, and the latest Vanity Fair for brunch at Spring Hill.

Do you use recipes or wing it?
I don’t really cook. I just show up at friends’ houses at opportune times and ask if they have snacks. I do make a magical eggnog that steals the show at holiday parties, but I’m not telling you my secrets.

Are you or have you ever been a vegan?
Carnivorous to the core.

What’s your desert-island condiment?
If there are eggs on this island, it’s green Tabasco.

Eat to live or live to eat?
Live to eat, unfortunately for my waistline in recent years. Working in the restaurant industry can get dangerous…you make friends with a lot of people who know just how good food can be. And then you find it (or make it) and eat it.

Three restaurants that sum up Seattle?
This question gives me anxiety.

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Tags: Food Finds, Taste of the Town

Taste of the Town: Billie Wildrick

It’s Fran’s chocolates and cocktails at Zig Zag for the blonde bombshell of the Seattle stage.

Posted by: Clancey Denis on Jan 19, 2011 at 08:47AM 0 Comments

Vanities star Billie Wildrick still snacks on stacked-up cheese slices.

She’s lived in Baltimore, New Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, Snohomish, Bellingham, and finally Seattle.

She’s an actress, a singer, a poet, a knitter, a teacher, and a guitarist.

On stage she’s been a hippie, a punk groupie, a stewardess, a showgirl, a teeny-bopper, a grandmother, the blonde quarter of an intrepid radio quartet, and a sassy small town waitress.

“I think I’m something of an odd sheep or a black duck or whatever," explains actress Billie Wildrick. "More so than people anticipate with all the blonde hair and the ingenues and stuff. But I am happy with that.”

This year, Wildrick stars in 5th Avenue Theater’s new musical Vanities, followed by its production of Guys and Dolls. After that comes designing and teaching a class at Freehold Theatre.

Even with such a busy schedule, a girl’s gotta eat, and there is no place better to do that than the city she swears is “the greatest there is.”

Are you or have you ever been a vegan?
Nope. I was a vegetarian for almost three years in Bellingham. Seemed a good place for it.

Favorite way to burn calories?
Singing and dancing. Day-long city walks. The zen experience of the stairs that never stop coming at the gym….

Eat to live or live to eat?
Eat to live, generally. There is a rabid hedonist in me who would say otherwise, but I have to keep her in check due to time restrictions and—yes, I’ll say it—keeping poundage at bay.

Where do you take out-of-town guests to eat?
I’m a fan of the Heavy Restaurant Group: Barrio and Purple. (Did you look up in Purple and feel like you were one of four and 20 blackbirds being baked into a pie? Try it.) I like to show off the cocktails at Zig Zag and I am a recent fan of Toulouse Petit.

What’s your guilty food pleasure?
I am embarrassed at the pleasure I still take in folding American cheese slices into quarters—even eighths—and eating them in stacks. But I think you mean something more along the lines of Fran’s gray salt caramels. Very guilty.

Dessert or appetizer?
Appetizers. I love small bites of many things. My palate has ADD.

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Tags: 5th Avenue Theatre, Taste of the Town

Taste of the Town: Cappy Kotz of Cappy’s Boxing Gym

The fit folk swear by Cappy’s sparring sessions. And the guy knows how to eat.

Posted by: Clancey Denis on Jan 12, 2011 at 11:00AM 0 Comments

On the ropes and dreaming of calamari: Cappy Kotz of Cappy’s Boxing Gym.

These days, everyone is picking a fight with Cappy Kotz—men with bulging biceps, little children, stay-at-home moms. As the owner of Cappy’s Boxing Gym in the Central District (which he opened in 1999 after leaving his job as a house painter) Kotz teaches everyone—whether they are seasoned athletes or true beginners—his philosophy on the sport.

“I believe in learning to engage emotionally, physically, and mentally in every aspect of life,” he says, and nutrition is an important factor in his fitness regime. He and his staff teach their clients to find the right balance of protein, carbs, and fat that bests suits their lifestyle and performance needs.

But even Kotz, whose life revolves around fitness (and his dog Axle), finds time to indulge in his favorite foods.

Vita, Stumptown, or Starbucks?
Starbucks.

Where do you take out-of-town guests to eat?
La Spiga on 12th, Cactus in Madison Park, Salty’s on Alki.

Do you use recipes or wing it?
I wing it, based on recipes I’ve used in the past.

What’s your guilty food pleasure?
Fried calamari, potato chips.

Are you or have you ever been a vegan?
No.

What’s your desert island condiment?
Blue cheese dressing.

Dessert or appetizer?
Appetizer.

Favorite way to burn calories?
Sparring.

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Tags: Taste of the Town, Central District, Boxing

Taste of the Town: Chiyo Ishikawa

Seattle Art Museum’s Curator has an eye for the edible pleasures.

Posted by: Lindsey Hall on Oct 25, 2010 at 02:05PM 0 Comments

Dessert lover Chiyo Ishikawa told us she burns calories via “yoga, and the occasional day hike.” Photo: Jennifer Richard

Even if you’re not an art buff, the name Chiyo Ishikawa is probably familiar. A Seattleite since 1990, she helped engineer exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston before moving here to take an assistant curator position with the Seattle Art Museum.

Now in charge of European painting and sculpture, Ishikawa has helped SAM attract one important exhibit after another. Most recently, she was a key player in bringing a stellar selection of Picasso’s great works to our city from the Musée National Picasso in Paris.

Here, Ishikawa takes a break from the masterpieces to share her favorite edible pleasures around town.

Are you or have you ever been a vegan?
No way!

Where do you take out-of-town guests to eat?
Lark, The Harvest Vine, Spinasse, Boat Street Café, Poppy, Taste at SAM.

Do you use recipes or wing it?
Both. My most dog-eared cookbook is Marcella Hazan’s Second Volume Classic Italian Cooking.

What’s your desert-island condiment?
Homemade chutney with Turkish apricots.

What’s your favorite way to burn calories?
Yoga, and the occasional day hike.

Vita, Stumptown, or Starbucks?
My favorite is Stella Caffé, at 1st Avenue at University. It’s as close to the Italian coffee experience as I’ve been able to find in Seattle.

What’s your guilty food pleasure?
Almond schnecken at Café Besalu.

Dessert or appetizer?
These days, dessert.

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Tags: Seattle Art Museum, Picasso, Taste of the Town

Taste of the Town: David Schomer

The Vivace guy is one heck of a cycler.

Posted by: Judy Naegeli on Sep 24, 2010 at 01:05PM 0 Comments

Vivace’s David Schomer

Since establishing Espresso Vivace in 1988, David Schomer has caught the attention of coffee lovers the world over. In the ‘90s he authored what’s become the bean gourmand’s bible, Espresso Coffee: Professional Techniques —“It sells in every country that can keep the lights on,” and is soon to be available in four languages—and this past summer, Schomer was in London speaking at the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe.

Here, Schomer talks Seattle’s other staple: food.

Favorite way to burn calories: Road cycling. I have done about 100 miles a week in and around Seattle since 1978.

Where do you take out-of-town guests to eat? I like to take people to Red Fin Sushi when the head chef, Katsuo, is working. Fish [there] tastes like candy. I think I could never fill up on it. I just eat until I’ve spent way too much.

What’s your guilty food pleasure? My favorite comfort food is meatloaf and mashed potatoes.

Are you or have you ever been a vegan? I’m not a good enough cook to be a vegan. And with my metabolism and all the cycling, I need a lot of protein.

What’s your desert-island condiment? Stone IPA.

Dessert or appetizer? A seasonal Japanese dessert made by Takara-san.

Three restaurants that sum up Seattle: Hmm, that’s tough… Pomodoro on Eastlake, Ivar’s on Lake Union (you must eat on the dock), and Rover’s. My god, what a pro and artist Chef Thierry Rautureau is!

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Taste of the Town: Corky Luster

The Ballard Bee guy loves him some doughnuts and prosciutto (but not at the same time).

Posted by: Judy Naegeli on Sep 09, 2010 at 10:16AM 0 Comments

Ballard Bee Company’s Corky Luster tends to his “girls.” Photo courtesy ballardbeecompany.com.

Corky Luster, the man behind Ballard Bee Company, is gearing up for his busiest season of the year: “Fall is the time when all your efforts pay off (or not).” Soon he’ll be extracting honey from 60 hives he’s planted throughout the city—on local farms and in backyards, at Dish D’lish, the rooftop garden of Bastille —some of which he’ll then sell at retail outlets.

You can find the unfiltered end product at Delaurenti, Picnic, and a handful of other shops.

Vita, Stumptown, or Starbucks? Stumptown.

Favorite way to burn calories: Walking with my sweetheart and my dog on Fir Island.

Where do you take out-of-town guests to eat? Boat Street Café, Delancey, Kingfish Café.

Do you use recipes or wing it? Wing it, definitely. If I’m baking (which is rare), I will use the recipe, but otherwise I just glance at a recipe to get the general idea, then off I go.

What’s your guilty pleasure food? Okay, I am bad (there’s the guilt). Doughnuts. I can eat them breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Matter of fact, I might have one right now…

Are you or have you ever been a vegan? Yes, been there, done that. Moving to Italy brought me to my senses. (What was I thinking? How could I deny myself prosciutto?)

Dessert or appetizer? Hello… doughnuts.

Three restaurants that sum up Seattle: This is really difficult. There are so many great restaurants in the city and my neighborhood. But, to sum up: Canlis, Sun Ya (dim sum), and Skillet.

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Tags: Food Finds, Taste of the Town, Ballard