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October 4, 2011
Blueacre Sous Chef Readies to Move to Alinea
Eric Rivera, sous chef at Blueacre, was recently called up to the big leagues. Rivera is slated to become the first-ever culinary liason at Grant Achatz's Alinea, widely considered one of the best restaurants in the world. Here, Rivera tells us how he got the job, what his new responsibilities entai ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2011
Bartenders Take Their Work Backstage
Wayne Curtis' column in the current issue of The Atlantic chronicles all the strange goings-on at Grant Achatz' The Aviary, where molecular mixologists are futzing with vanilla-infused ice cubes and reverse osmosis tanks. But the Chicago bar's most radical experiment may be the sequestering o ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
My Internship at the Modernist Cuisine Cooking Lab
My feet hurt, my back is a mess, I've got blisters from endless brunoising, and my fingertips are still burning from the liquid nitrogen. It was the best week ever! Last week, I spent four days working as a stage (pronounced stahzje, definition: cooking intern) at the Modernist Cuisine ki ... More >>
Food
July 6, 2011
Willows Inn: Blaine Wetzel's Local Ingredients and Danish Roots
The Noma-reared chef makes a trip to Lummi Island worthwhile.
Food
April 27, 2011
The 2011 Voracious Food Award Winners
Canlis, the Seattle City Council, and Nash Huber take top honors.
Blogs
March 22, 2011
"Guns, Guitars, and Gastronomy": Talking With Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas From Alinea
Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas have had a busy couple weeks, bopping all over the country pimping for their new book, Life, on the Line, which is part memoir, part primer on the restaurant industry and partly the story of Grant Achatz surviving a cancer that had a really good shot at killing h ... More >>
Arts
March 16, 2011
The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events
Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas have had a busy couple weeks, bopping all over the country pimping for their new book, Life, on the Line, which is part memoir, part primer on the restaurant industry and partly the story of Grant Achatz surviving a cancer that had a really good shot at killing h ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
When He's Not Cooking or Eating, You Can Find Canlis Chef Jason Franey Snowboarding
Photo by Leslie KellyChef Jason is all about spending as much time as possible in the kitchen, and that's why he no longer expedites from this spot in the dining room.Canlis chef Jason Franey's got a huge job, overseeing the kitchen at a landmark restaurant and private dining events. But even ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Grant Achatz
Photo by Leslie KellyChef Jason is all about spending as much time as possible in the kitchen, and that's why he no longer expedites from this spot in the dining room.Canlis chef Jason Franey's got a huge job, overseeing the kitchen at a landmark restaurant and private dining events. But even ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
All About the Beakers: Grant Achatz is Coming to Seattle
It was pretty much Christmas on Tuesday for the Seattle Food Geek when Tom Douglas's Palace Ballroom saw the final reveal of Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine--the cinderblock-sized uber-modern "cookbook" that the food world (and the Geek) has been slavering for for months. As Stefon might ... More >>
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December 23, 2010
Greatest Hits And What You Missed: Turkeys, Vienna Sausages and Gingerbread
"Vessel announced its final day at 1312 5th Avenue will be this Thursday, December 23. The cocktail lounge will open in a new location next spring or summer - details have yet to be announced." Just the kind of Morning Food News that gets your day started off right.
Blogs
December 22, 2010
The Top 5 Grossest Holiday Foods
Which one got better grades at Yale?The holidays are upon us, but unless your uncle is Grant Achatz, you probably won't be eating anything original. Holiday food is staid and traditional and, in most cases, terrible, because it's highly unlikely your grandma was a semifinalist on Top Chef. S ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
A Chemist's Descent Into Four Loko Fueled Madness
Four Loko: Dan Brown's chosen elixir.I should've known not to go anywhere near Four Loko the moment I tried to buy it. The AM-PM gas station on Delridge stocked SEVEN flavors of this deadly brew. That in itself was a bad sign: seven is a number of power. Foreboding swirled about me on this Oc ... More >>
Food
October 6, 2010
Food News & Notes
Lecosho opens up, Ivar's predicts the future, and so much more.
Blogs
October 1, 2010
Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Celebrity Extravaganza
Hey... How ya like my wiener? We had Ray Charles in the section this week. And Kevin Bacon. That scary dude from Machete (his name is Danny Trejo) made an appearance, and so did Robert Plant. And Roman Polanski. And Richard Blais and Anne Burrell and Grant Achatz and Jimmy Page and Bill Gate ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2010
Grant Achatz Back to F#@&ing With Your Whiskey: See? I Told You So...
Once again, we see Grant Achatz's assistant, Nerdly the Magnificent, hard at workWay back at the beginning of this weird year, one of the first pieces I wrote for this blog was a hastily cobbled-together story about Grant Achatz (chef and owner of Alinea in Chicago), some odd quotes and wild ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2010
Seashells and ipods: LIFE Magazine's Molecular Gastronomy Slideshow
So it's 4pm and it occurs to me that I haven't eaten all day. Some restaurant critic, right? But hey, it's been a busy day. Deadlines to meet, phone calls to return, a review to finish off. I've been chewing over words for the past seven hours, but just haven't managed to put any actual fo ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2010
K! Pizzacone: Absolute Proof That It's All Been Done Before
"Oh, this is the best pizza in a cup ever. This guy is unbelievable. He ran the old Cup 'o Pizza guy out of business. People come from all over to eat this. "I sometimes have this fear that everything possible that can be done with food, has been done with food--that no chef, no matter how cl ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2010
Mario Batali Doesn't Care What Stupid People Think About His Stupid Shoes
Tom Douglas (L) and Mario Batali (R) express outrage over how dumb the audience at their Q&A session was. (Photo credit: Carrie Ferran)Last night I attended a Kim Ricketts Book Event, where Tom Douglas interviewed Mario Batali at the Palace Ballroom. I really must thank Mrs. Ricketts fo ... More >>
Food
April 14, 2010
Innovation Award: Spur's Brian McCracken and Dana Tough
Tom Douglas (L) and Mario Batali (R) express outrage over how dumb the audience at their Q&A session was. (Photo credit: Carrie Ferran)Last night I attended a Kim Ricketts Book Event, where Tom Douglas interviewed Mario Batali at the Palace Ballroom. I really must thank Mrs. Ricketts fo ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2010
Talking Turtle Soup, Cotton Candy and Full Frontal Nudity with Voracious Tasting Chef Showdown Competitor Seth Caswell
This is the only picture I could find of Caswell where he's wearing clothes...In just a couple weeks, two brave culinary gladiators will be taking the stage for the first ever Seattle Weekly Chef Showdown, taking place during the Voracious Tasting & Seattle Weekly Food Awards event on April 1 ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2010
If it Ain't One Thing, It's Another: Grant Achatz to F*@& with Your Whiskey
No, that's not Grant. That's his assistant, Nerdly the Magnificent.A few days ago, I discussed the distressing news coming out of the Madrid Fusion conference in Spain: that Super Genius Ferran Adria was going to be closing his groundbreaking restaurant, El Bulli. But you know what they say a ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2010
Update: Grant Achatz Will NOT F*@$ With Your Whiskey. At Least Not Yet ...
Just as God intended.Just when I was getting all excited about getting drunk on gin-flavored Pop Rocks and whiskey gelee, someone has to come along and spoil it all. The someone in question this time? Those bastards over at Grub Street Chicago who, this afternoon, had to go and burst my bubb ... More >>
Blogs
November 26, 2008
Food News: The All Pie Edition
Despite the fact that just this morning I received an email saying, "Cupcakes are the new pie," this week's food-news roundup is devoted to America's favorite dessert.The Old Foodie is an amazing food history blog from Australia that uncovers old recipes. The author, who's about to release a book on ... More >>
Food
July 23, 2008
Spring Hill: Meet the New Northwest
Raw and cooked, evil and sensual, earthy and candy-sweet: a luscious study in contrasts in West Seattle.

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