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  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Pinball Wizard Robert Gagno's TV Debut

    Matthew Williams​Back in December I profiled Robert Gagno, a 22-year-old autistic savant and the top-ranked pinball player in Canada. At the time, Robert and his family had just finished being filmed for a Science Channel series about savants. Now that footage is online, and it helps provide a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    One Big Truck Full of Crazy: Top Chef Tour Coming to Seattle (and also Portland)

    ​The best thing about watching Top Chef in the past couple seasons? Watching the chef-testants go all cuckoo-bananas after being locked up together in that house for a few weeks. There was Jennifer Carroll's slow-rolling meltdown from last season, the Hosea-and-Leah debacle from the season bef ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Comment of the Day: The Crazies

    I am going to see those eyes in my nightmares...​No sooner had I gotten my breaking news posted about the Top Chef roadshow coming to Seattle, than apparent Top Chef fanatic Zibby popped up to remind me about one of the great, all-time Top Chef crazies: Marcel Vigneron (pictured right there in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    Update: Top Chef Masters Taps Seattle Chefs

    Yeah, that's Bender he's holding. I still prefer Futurama to The Simpsons​Intrepid reporter Erika Hobart already came through with the news yesterday that three of our local chefs will be packing their bags to compete in the second season of Bravo's Top Chef Masters. Thierry Rautureau from Rov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Phil Harris, 'Deadliest Catch' Captain, Dies at 53

    Harris: "Ya gotta be Twisted."​"I always thought about moving down where it's a little warmer," Capt. Phil Harris liked to say of his home in Snohomish County, "but I've been all over the country, and when it's nice out, this is the most beautiful place on Earth." From which yesterday the rowd ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Morning Food News: Three Seattle Chefs Compete on Bravo, Cheap Wine Tastings at Meridian Market

    Maria Hines of Tilth​Three Seattle Chefs will complete on season two of Bravo's Top Chef Masters: Maria Hines of Tilth, Thierry Rautureau of Rover's, and Jerry Traunfeld of Poppy. On the sho-w, established chefs from across the country compete against one another for charity--think Top Chef wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Joule's Iron Chef Viewing Party

    ​Everyone in Seattle is already in awe of the innovative, flavor-forward food cooked up by Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi at Joule. (If you go, get the agnolotti with brussel sprouts and fermented black beans. Do not ask questions, just do it.) After this Sunday, January 17, the rest of the worl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    A Church of Food

    credit: firstchurchseattle.com​Call it a church of food. Well, for two nights anyway, this former church on Capitol Hill, a gorgeous building recently converted into swank town homes, hosts two exclusive gourmet dinners. And the line-up seems more than worthy of religious adoration. You'll din ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    Holly Smith Bites Dust on the Next Iron Chef

    After narrowly escaping the jaws of defeat in the series premiere of The Next Iron Chef, Cafe Juanita's Holly Smith's lackluster bouillabaisse got her sent back to her Kirkland kitchen in round two. My money's on New York chef Jehangir Mehta to win it all, but I must say I'm disappointed with the fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Holly Smith Surives Iron Chef Elimination...Barely

    ​When you hear people speak of "food porn," they're likely speaking of the Food Network in general, and Iron Chef in particular. Just finished a huge dinner? Not to worry: After an hour of watching Iron Chef, you'll be ready for round two--not exactly good news for that plan to practice tough ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    Saturday: Anthony Bourdain & Mario Batali @ The Paramount

    Celebrity chefs Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali gave a two-hour plus talk at the Paramount on Saturday, during which they gave advice to aspiring chefs, hated on the Food Network, and between the two of them guzzled several Heinekens. They looked almost cartoonish when they made their entrance, ... More >>

  • Food

    May 20, 2009

    Bottomfeeder: Pete, Patty, and the Eggnest

    The famous quirks of two Greek culinary cousins.

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    The Captain Will Bite Your Head Off

    My Ballard alerts us that a new season of the Deadliest Catch began last night (Tuesdays, 9 PM, Discovery Channel). We missed the inaugural episode, but thanks to My Ballard, not this clip, in which Northwestern skipper and steely Ballardite Sig Hansen--apparently following a Norwegian tradition--bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    IACP Bert Greene Awards: Our Jonathan Kauffman & PCC

    I'm still on the road back from the IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) conference in Denver, excited to be driving towards a Seattle spring. Saturday night's award ceremony was fun, if a little dry, but I was proud as hell to be there to accept Jonathan Kauffman's Bert Gree ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2008

    Hug It Out: Chef Jeff Best New Face of Food Network

    I'm still on the road back from the IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) conference in Denver, excited to be driving towards a Seattle spring. Saturday night's award ceremony was fun, if a little dry, but I was proud as hell to be there to accept Jonathan Kauffman's Bert Gree ... More >>

  • Film

    April 16, 2008

    Young @ Heart : Is Kirk Douglas Available for the Remake?

    I'm still on the road back from the IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) conference in Denver, excited to be driving towards a Seattle spring. Saturday night's award ceremony was fun, if a little dry, but I was proud as hell to be there to accept Jonathan Kauffman's Bert Gree ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2008

    Top Chef Starts Tonight

    I'm still on the road back from the IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) conference in Denver, excited to be driving towards a Seattle spring. Saturday night's award ceremony was fun, if a little dry, but I was proud as hell to be there to accept Jonathan Kauffman's Bert Gree ... More >>

  • Food

    February 20, 2008

    New Sushi in the UD, the Grapple, and Our Local Online Cooking Show

    Selections from Voracious, our food blog.

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2008

    Local Talent: Cookus Interruptus

    Selections from Voracious, our food blog.

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2007

    Nuking Roaches

    Selections from Voracious, our food blog.

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2007

    Food Network: ISO Next Talking Head

    Selections from Voracious, our food blog.

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2007

    Planet Earth meets Yes

    Selections from Voracious, our food blog.

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2007

    Top Chef Ends, With Much Kibbitzing

    Selections from Voracious, our food blog.

  • Food

    April 27, 2005

    Two Twos

    Caprial and John's new show and Lisa and Jonathan's new restaurant.

  • Diversions

    December 15, 2004

    Lovin' in the Oven

    Caprial and John's new show and Lisa and Jonathan's new restaurant.

  • Diversions

    August 4, 2004

    Best Dinner Theater

    FOOD & DRINK

  • Diversions

    December 10, 2003

    The Real Dr. Food

    Alton Brown makes cooking shows useful again.

  • News

    January 16, 2002

    "Stop publishing such whiny articles! It makes the people at your magazine, as well as those who live in Seattle, sound like a bunch of spoiled babies."

    Alton Brown makes cooking shows useful again.

  • Diversions

    March 7, 2001

    Encyclopaedia of Evil

    Alton Brown makes cooking shows useful again.

  • Arts

    December 6, 2000

    Naked Dinner

    Two new books ease cooks into the kitchen, stripping down recipes so that anybody can dress them up.

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