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James Beard

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    April 13, 2012

    Seattle Native Shakes Up Midwestern College Town With Non-Profit Local Food Salon

    I grew up on a tree-lined street with wide sidewalks that even a big city kid wouldn't have mistaken for farmland. There wasn't much room between the shingled Colonial Revival houses and brick post-war duplexes for pig pens or stands of corn. But our neighbor, Mr. Stadel, who was born in Ann Arbor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    Revel and Joule's Rachel Yang Talks Kids

    Rachel Yang juggles a trifecta of jobs: chef, restaurateur, and mother. In no particular order, since on any given day, one role might demand more than the next. But if the acclaim of her and her husband's restaurants, the deliciousness of their food, and undeniable cuteness of their son Pike offer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Mike Robertshaw on Local 360 and His Local Food Roots

    If Seattle had a culinary hall of fame, Chef Mike Robertshaw of Local 360 would be the quiet contender. Many who walk past the windows of Local 360 on Bell Street--where Robertshaw (known amongst his chef friends as "Mikey") works on the day's pastries-- are oblivious to the chef on the other side w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Maneki's Uni Makes Us Get in Touch with Our Sex Organs

    ​One year ago, I was at 107-year-old Maneki restaurant eating soba to debut the start of The Mein Man noodle column. Several months ago, I returned to watch as Andrew Zimmern shot a portion of his television program (due to air sometime next month) there. The "Bizarre Foods" he ate ranged from ... More >>

  • Food

    October 5, 2011

    Un-Amazing Grace Kitchen

    Poppy's U-Village kin is the discount rack of restaurants.

  • Food

    May 25, 2011

    First Call: Tom Douglas' Talented Texan

    Living the High Life with a Brave Horse bartender.

  • Food

    May 25, 2011

    Don't Luc Now

    Rover's sidecar wilts under pressure.

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Brave Hose. Brazen Barkeep. Pink Drink.

    You're looking at my girlie drink, aren't you? ​The Watering Hole: Brave Horse Tavern, 310 Terry Ave. N., 971-0717, SOUTH LAKE UNION. The Atmosphere: The converted loft space easily fits two shuffleboards, an expansive horse-shoe bar, an open kitchen turning out homemade pretzels by the hundr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Seattle's Beard Delegation Devours the Big Apple

    While Brian Canlis feasted on Michael White's cappelletti, I ate spaghetti with meat sauce at Tony's in Atlantic City. No fooling.​At this very moment, the nation's top chefs are converging on Lincoln Center for the James Beard Foundation awards, the event that ostensibly drew all of them to N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Mark Canlis Shares His Social Media Thoughts With Eatocracy

    ​CNN's Eatocracy web site, which daily hits up culinary sorts for food-related top five lists, today offers five ways to "stay connected to your guests in the digital age," courtesy of Mark Canlis. "Mark and Brian Canlis - with the help of James Beard finalist Jason Franey in the kitchen - ar ... More >>

  • Food

    April 27, 2011

    Ethan Stowell, Empire Builder

    The "new Tom Douglas" couldn't be more different than the vintage.

  • Food

    March 2, 2011

    Ron Jeremy, Free Flapjacks, & Canlis' Code

    All in a week's work on the Voracious blog.

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Ron Jeremy, James Beard, Dumplings, and Pig

    ​ "You know how whenever the federal government puts out a new budget or new income tax rules, there's always this B-roll footage shown on the news of some poor congressional staffer lugging around bound copies thicker than two phone books put together? "Yeah, well that's kind of the stage w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    Awards Season: James Beard Semi-Finalists List Is Out

    ​You know how whenever the federal government puts out a new budget or new income tax rules, there's always this B-roll footage shown on the news of some poor congressional staffer lugging around bound copies thicker than two phone books put together? Yeah, well that's kind of the stage we're ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    James Beard Awards News: Portland Gets All The Luck

    Big Jimmy in action​First it was the International Association of Culinary Professionals--that week-long bacchanalia of symposia, lectures, heavy drinking, food, celebrities, more drinking and awards--that was hosted by the lovely city of Portland, Oregon just a few months ago. And I was fine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Greatest Hits and What You Missed: A Picture is Worth a Whole Lot of Words

    This dude is never going to win this staring contest...​So this week was a bit scattered. We had news coming in from all quarters of the restaurants business and the wider world of food, but while, in some weeks, a kind of theme naturally emerges (like barbecue or take-out food or terrible thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    Get Barking Frog's Bobby Moore On Your Radar

    Photo by Leslie KellyBobby Moore searing scallops at the Washington Wine Auction.​Bobby Moore would probably be a whole lot more famous if he cooked at a restaurant in Seattle -- because his food is flipping fantastic -- but he's way out in wine country, at the Barking Frog in Woodinville. Rig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Openings & Closings: Ballard Gains a British Pub, West Seattle Loses Bowling Alley Chinese Food, and Much More

    Craving chocolate cream pie with... pretzel crust? Capitol Hill's new online pie company is now taking orders. ​Good news, foodies! Seattle gained more restaurants than it lost this week. Here's your weekly report. In Ballard, a new British pub opened for business at NW Market Street and 24th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Morning Food News: British Pub Opens in Ballard, Sushi Bar Coming to Eastlake

    ​Just in time for the World Cup, a new pub opens for business this afternoon at Northwest Market Street and 24th Avenue Northwest, according to My Ballard. The Market Arms features European and domestic beers, wine, and liquor, as well as traditional British fare like sausauge and mustard grai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Your "Best of the Web" Award Nominees?

    You are addicted to the Feed.​Hearing that the James Beard winners have been announced reminded me to remind Voracious readers to get to nominating for our local "Best of the Web" 2010 Awards. If you've got a favorite restaurant, bar or coffee shop (among many other categories) be sure to nomi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    James Beard Would Haunt Beam's

    Terrible food makes the ghost of James Beard cry. And then he haunts you, with chains, and wailing, and other ghostly shit.​When we got to Beam's at 6 p.m. on a Sunday, it was booked: packed to the rafters with such a geriatric crew that Beam's small dining room looked like a package of Q-Ti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Handicapping the James Beard Awards: Part 3

    ​Last week, we got through handicapping the top of the list for this year's James Beard Restaurant Awards. In Part 1, I gave the odds on Tom Douglas taking home the prize for Outstanding Restaurateur (30-to-1 against, and I might've been being generous) and explained why, as cool as Poppy migh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Cook's Shelf: The Things We Carried

    ​"This one?" "Keep it." "What about this one?" "Keep it." "This thing?" "Put it in the box." "Seriously, Jay? It weighs a ton." "Keep it." This exact conversation was repeated, ad infinitum, for pretty much two straight days while Laura and I tried to pack up our house in Denver and ge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    Seattle Erotic Arts Festival: Now! With Food, Sort Of

    The opening soiree for the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival marked the strongest collection of art yet, including photographs from the upcoming book La FIga:Visions of Food and Form. The book is a collaboration between photographer Matt Freedman and chef Tiberio Simone who owns the catering company La F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    Save the Date: 4/20 James Beard Tweet Up/Out

    This Monday, April 20th, at 6:00pm, all James Beard nominees for Best Chef Northwest will converge on Crush and cook a few of us media types dinner. Our "job" is to tweet about it. You can follow all of us fatted cattle here: http://hashtags.org/tag/#nwbchefs. Follow the hash tag #nwbchefs starting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2008

    Nell's Chef Tribute Dinner Honors Elizabeth David

    This Monday, April 20th, at 6:00pm, all James Beard nominees for Best Chef Northwest will converge on Crush and cook a few of us media types dinner. Our "job" is to tweet about it. You can follow all of us fatted cattle here: http://hashtags.org/tag/#nwbchefs. Follow the hash tag #nwbchefs starting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2008

    The Hunt for $1 Cookbooks

    This Monday, April 20th, at 6:00pm, all James Beard nominees for Best Chef Northwest will converge on Crush and cook a few of us media types dinner. Our "job" is to tweet about it. You can follow all of us fatted cattle here: http://hashtags.org/tag/#nwbchefs. Follow the hash tag #nwbchefs starting ... More >>

  • Food

    September 27, 2006

    Foodie Nation

    Author David Kamp writes about life in The United States of Arugula.

  • Food

    June 1, 2005

    June 1, 2005

    Author David Kamp writes about life in The United States of Arugula.

  • Food

    May 11, 2005

    Want Fries With That?

    Out with the old, in with the new; ketchup in a squeeze bottle, please.

  • Food

    April 20, 2005

    Dinner

    Out with the old, in with the new; ketchup in a squeeze bottle, please.

  • Food

    June 9, 2004

    Behind the Beard

    Why local chefs move heaven and earth to feed New York's face.

  • Food

    April 28, 2004

    Food Files

    Why local chefs move heaven and earth to feed New York's face.

  • Food

    July 2, 2003

    Food Events Around Town

    Why local chefs move heaven and earth to feed New York's face.

  • Arts

    February 19, 2003

    Food Is Thought

    Why local chefs move heaven and earth to feed New York's face.

  • Food

    October 3, 2001

    The way we eat now

    Sasquatch's new cookbook offers a group portrait of Seattle's chefs.

  • Food

    September 20, 2000

    Back in Belltown

    Tom Douglas does it again—maybe too well in a 'hood defined by upscale dining.

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