Email Author Hanna Raskin

Awards

• 2011 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation

  City of Ate

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 9, 2010

  "Forked Up"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 2, 2010

  "Work Release"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 30, 2010

  "Artless"

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2012 Stories by Hanna Raskin

• SIFF For the Food-Minded Set: This Weekend's Shorts

  published May 25, 2012

  That first "F" in SIFF stands for film, not food, but there's plenty of onscreen eating at the festival to entertain the culinary-minded moviegoer. As a supplement to Seattle Weekly's coverage of the ... More >>

• 100 Favorite Dishes: Tongue Sandwich at Salumi

  published May 25, 2012

  I've eaten most of my tongue sandwiches in Jewish delis, so I was somewhat taken aback when a counter staffer at Salumi asked whether I wanted my order with cheese. "Do people do thatr," I asked. "S... More >>

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  SIFF For the Food-Minded Set: Step Up to the Plate

  published May 25, 2012

  That first "F" in SIFF stands for film, not food, but there's plenty of onscreen eating at the festival to entertain the culinary-minded moviegoer. As a supplement to Seattle Weekly's coverage of the ... More >>

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  Producing Poetry: Welcoming Green Garlic

  published May 24, 2012

  Voracious this year is celebrating our local farmers markets with a series of poems extolling what's newly ripe and ready for sale. Each week during market season, we'll run a poem from a local poet w... More >>

• 100 Favorite Dishes: Crispy Fish Skins at The Walrus and The Capenter

  published May 24, 2012

  This series of posts is called "100 favorite dishes," and I take the adjective to mean that subjectivity and idiosyncrasy is permissible. So I'm lifting my self-imposed rule that no restaurant can be ... More >>

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  Reviewing the Review: Formulating Restaurant Recommendations

  published May 24, 2012

  Mechanical engineers, secretaries, morticians and pretty much everyone else who doesn't make their living as a food critic tend to imagine the reviewing life as a whirl of fine wine and mind-blowing m... More >>

• 100 Favorite Dishes: Long Bone Rib Eye at Metropolitan Grill

  published May 23, 2012

  Want to hear a chef at his most profaner Order your steak well-done. Chefs are a fickle bunch: They vacillate between adding bacon to every dish and proclaiming the superiority of vegetables. They p... More >>

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  Seattle's 10 Best Happy Hours

  published May 23, 2012

  Here's my confession for the week: I've lived in Seattle for 13 months, and I've never been to a happy hour. I've read plenty of happy hour menus, calculating how much money I might save if I could st... More >>

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  SIFF for the Food-Minded Set: A Better Life

  published May 23, 2012

  That first "F" in SIFF stands for film, not food, but there's plenty of onscreen eating at the festival to entertain the culinary-minded moviegoer. As a supplement to Seattle Weekly's coverage of the ... More >>

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  From the Pho File: Pho Mignon

  published May 22, 2012

  If an eater was presented with a bowl of pho as murky as the celebrated beef broth's history, he'd likely slam down his spoon and chopsticks in disgust. Although the Vietnamese soup dates back only to... More >>

• Brendan Ryan: Thai Goes to the Runner

  published May 23, 2012

  With the Seattle Mariners having lost more than half their games so far, it's no wonder the club wants its fans to look at something other than... More >>

• La Boucherie's Fine Swine

  published May 23, 2012

  Somewhere there must be a chef and farmer who've agreed to keep their working relationship relatively discreet, but the vast... More >>

• 100 Favorite Dishes: Charcuterie Plate at Le Pichet

  published May 22, 2012

  No matter what you're having for lunch today, there's a good chance it involves bread, meat and cheese. (Unless, of course, you're gluten-intolerant, vegetarian or kosher, in which case, two out of th... More >>

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  Barrio Preps Pecks of Jalapeno Peppers For Eating Contest

  published May 22, 2012

  Barrio is promoting its upcoming jalapeno-eating contest with the tag line "Can you handle the heatr" But it might be more accurate to ask "Can you handle the subdued heatr" Breaking with competitive... More >>

• 100 Favorite Dishes: BBQ Pork Banh Mi at Sub Sand

  published May 21, 2012

  In his terrific new culinary history Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, OC Weekly editor Gustavo Arellano details a number of junctures at which dishes dreamed up by Mexican immigrants went... More >>

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  Seattle's 10 Best Sausages

  published May 21, 2012

  The adage about law and sausages is entirely unfair to sausage makers. While there are plenty of shady sausages companies in the habit of zipping up questionable animal parts in casings and hoping cl... More >>

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  Mariners Shortstop Explains His Panang Curry Obsession

  published May 21, 2012

  With the Seattle Mariners having lost more than half of their games, it's no wonder the club wants its fans to look at something other than batting averages and slugging percentages when scanning the ... More >>

• SIFF For the Food-Minded Set: Finding North

  published May 18, 2012

  That first "F" in SIFF stands for film, not food, but there's plenty of onscreen eating at the festival to entertain the culinary-minded moviegoer. As a supplement to Seattle Weekly's coverage of the ... More >>

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  100 Favorite Dishes: Coconut Cream Pie at Dahlia Lounge

  published May 18, 2012

  This week, in celebration of the James Beard Foundation finally honoring Tom Douglas as the nation's most outstanding restaurateur, we're working our way through the Douglas portion of our favorite di... More >>

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  Kathy Casey Revisits the '80s for SkyCity's Fiftieth Anniversary Menu

  published May 18, 2012

  When nostalgic chefs decide to resurrect bygone culinary trends, they tend to dip into pre-industrial cookbooks and bar guides issued before Prohibition. But Kathy Casey, who was one of the nation's f... More >>

• Producing Poetry: The Return of Morels

  published May 17, 2012

  Voracious this year is celebrating our local farmers markets with a series of poems extolling what's newly ripe and ready for sale. Each week during market season, we'll run a poem from a local poet w... More >>

• 100 Favorite Dishes: Pretzels at Brave Horse Tavern

  published May 17, 2012

  This week, in celebration of the James Beard Foundation finally honoring Tom Douglas as the nation's most outstanding restaurateur, we're working our way through the Douglas portion of our favorite di... More >>

• Indo Cafe Owner Keeps Promoting Indonesian Cuisine at Cloves

  published May 17, 2012

  The menu that Irwan Ngadisastra is serving at his new lower Queen Anne restaurant is similar to the menu at Indo Cafe, the Northgate restaurant he's owned since 2009, but there are a few brave deviati... More >>

• 100 Favorite Dishes: Clam and Pancetta Pizza at Serious Pie

  published May 16, 2012

  This week, in celebration of the James Beard Foundation finally honoring Tom Douglas as the nation's most outstanding restaurateur, we're working our way through the Douglas portion of our favorite di... More >>

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  Seattle's 10 Best Drink Menus

  published May 16, 2012

  A fair number of cocktail transactions don't involve a menu. Drinkers don't need to see what's listed if they're bent on ordering a dry Tanqueray martini or ceding their drink decisions to a bartender... More >>