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Jerry Traunfeld

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Assessing the "Where Should I Eat?" Apps

    Urbanspoon last week released a redone version of its popular app, supplementing its shake-to-suggest slot machine with interactive maps and lists of restaurants favored by Eater or helmed by James Beard-nominated chefs. Another new feature notifies registered users when they're in the vicinity of a ... More >>

  • Food

    February 29, 2012

    The Bookstore Bar Is Subject to Change

    Another Alexis restaurant can't find its footing.

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Another Reason for Restaurants to Dread Restaurant Week: No-Shows

    ​Restaurant staffers like to gripe about the diners who show up for Restaurant Week, but the ones who don't show can be equally aggravating. Poppy's Jerry Traunfeld this weekend tweeted: "Why so many more no-shows during restaurant week compared to a regular night? We're offering a great deal ... More >>

  • Food

    October 5, 2011

    Un-Amazing Grace Kitchen

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

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Herb-Infused Cocktails Inspired From the Garden

    The Bada Bing at Poppy combines sage and bing cherries with bourbon. ​There are plenty of uses for herbs in the kitchen and many people incorporate fresh herbs into their cooking. For many area bartenders and chefs, herbs also make their way into cocktails. At Poppy, Chef Jerry Traunfeld's l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Awards Season: James Beard Award Finalists Announced

    His James Beardiness himself, cooking what appears to be a delicious pan of sticks.​We've already run down the list of semifinalists for this year's James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards. And late last week we were able to bring you word of an early win by Seattle's own FareStart as the James ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Chef Dan Gilmore's Not Crazy About Chocolate

    Photo by Leslie KellyChef Dan Gilmore, left, and the crew at Urbane.​Urbane's chef de cuisine Dan Gilmore's married to a pastry chef--they met in culinary school. And yet he's willing to go out on a limb and cop to not being a huge fan of the dark-brown stuff most of the rest of the world is a ... 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

    December 2, 2010

    Local Authors Serve Up a Feast of Cookbooks

    For the last few installments of Cooking the Books, we've focus on local authors' cookbooks. Why? Because there are so darn many good ones, that's why. Plus, what with the whole gift-buying frenzy that usually occurs this time of year - there are a whole lot of events happening this month to promote ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Lisa Dupar's Got a New Cookbook, and It Just Pops

    Lisa Dupar digs her Southern roots.​Lisa Dupar might be the best under-the-radar chef in the region. She's been catering upscale comfort food with a Southern accent for years and her Pomegranate Bistro in Redmond is weekend brunch central for Eastsiders, the fare tasty enough to coax folks fro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Dinner & a Movie: "The A-Team" and The Thali Team

    Doug Curran/20th Century FoxYes, Jessica Biel always wears her gun and bulletproof vest for dinner.​The Dinner: Thali and beer at Poppy (622 Broadway E.). The Movie: The A-Team, at Pacific Place (600 Pine St.). The Screenplate: The A-Team was nobody's idea of great TV during its primetime ru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    The List: Seattle Farmers Market Makes Travel Leisure List of Country's Best

    ​Seattle has been getting some serious national props lately on the food and restaurant scene. There was the announcement of the finalists for the James Beard Awards a couple weeks ago (in which Tom Douglas made the cut for Outstanding Restaurateur, Ethan Stowell and Jason Wilson are up for Be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Voracious Tasting Chef Showdown Contestants Confirmed

    ​Okay, so maybe we were getting a little bit nervous over here at Voracious World Headquarters. Our big party was just a couple weeks away and we didn't have any chefs yet for our big Iron Chef-style culinary throw-down. Was it that they feared the pressure of working in our own little (highly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Update: Handicapping the James Beard Awards

    Into the home stretch...​This morning, the finalists for the James Beard Awards were announced from the floor of the Palace Cafe in New Orleans--a suitably food-obsessed city, from which many of the awards' big winners have come. And like I promised, here I am to see how my wicked handicapping ... 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 19, 2010

    Handicapping the James Beard Awards: Part 2

    ​Yesterday, I started off this handicapping project by discussing two of the really big categories of awards for which the James Beard Foundation just announced their list of semifinalists. Outstanding Restaurateur and Outstanding chef are two of the huge national awards given out each year. A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    Tom Douglas, Jerry Traunfeld and Canlis Lead a Robust Crop of Seattle-Based Beard Award Semifinalists

    Kenneth DundasSpring Hill's Fuller is among a group of Seattle food folk who hope to be Bearded.​The list of James Beard Award semifinalists is out, and it's chockablock with Seattle-based restaurants, vintners, and chefs, including Spring Hill's Mark Fuller, the subject of this week's three-p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    Handicapping the James Beard Awards: Part 1

    The horse race begins now​As posted earlier today, the venerable James Beard Foundation today released the names of their Restaurant and Chef Awards semi-finalists. And man, was it a Seattle-heavy list. Seriously, I've been tracking these things for most of a decade, and for one city (that's n ... 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

    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 >>

  • Music

    December 23, 2009

    The Queen’s Jewels

    An unprecedented sense of collaboration marked Seattle’s 2009 music scene.

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Do Good on Wednesday, October 14: Baked Goods & Happy Hour

    Columbia City Bakery has been selling Equality Cookies--1,676 at last count--in support of Referendum 71, donating $1 for each cookie sold to Washington Families Standing Together. This coming Wednesday, October 14, for its fourth anniversary, every dollar you spend all day long at Columbia City Bak ... More >>

  • Food

    March 11, 2009

    Favorite Restaurants: Fine Dining for the Flush

    How to eat for between $30 and $50.

  • Food

    January 7, 2009

    Plate Expectations

    A famous local chef may not change dining as we know it, but his Broadway eatery’s no failure.

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2008

    Shhh! Poppy Opens Softly Tonight

    A famous local chef may not change dining as we know it, but his Broadway eatery’s no failure.

  • Food

    September 3, 2008

    Meat Beet Manifesto

    Sitka & Spruce founder’s Georgetown venture is a reluctant restaurant.

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2008

    Farm-to School Bills, Laxative Sweetners, and Other Food News

    Sitka & Spruce founder’s Georgetown venture is a reluctant restaurant.

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2007

    What to Do This Weekend

    Sitka & Spruce founder’s Georgetown venture is a reluctant restaurant.

  • Food

    May 30, 2007

    First Strawberries of the Season, Blind Wine Tasting, and Other Food Events

    Sitka & Spruce founder’s Georgetown venture is a reluctant restaurant.

  • Food

    July 5, 2006

    Food News July 5-12

    Sitka & Spruce founder’s Georgetown venture is a reluctant restaurant.

  • Diversions

    May 24, 2006

    My Perfect ...

    Perfect summer moments recalled by a chef, a tour guide, a musician, a yogi, a little leaguer, and others.

  • Food

    April 26, 2006

    Food News for April 26-May 2

    Free lunch, and free flower cookies, for the kiddies.

  • Diversions

    December 14, 2005

    Well Read, Well Fed

    Our suggestions for books for cooks that aren't necessarily cookbooks.

  • Food

    November 2, 2005

    Chef's Notes

    Idiosyncratic new cookbooks arrive from some of Seattle's finest kitchens.

  • Food

    October 29, 2003

    Food Fright

    Idiosyncratic new cookbooks arrive from some of Seattle's finest kitchens.

  • Food

    October 22, 2003

    Food Events Around Town

    Idiosyncratic new cookbooks arrive from some of Seattle's finest kitchens.

  • Food

    October 15, 2003

    Market Fresh

    Idiosyncratic new cookbooks arrive from some of Seattle's finest kitchens.

  • News

    December 11, 2002

    Do Try This at Home

    From a bumper crop of Italian cookbooks, the picks of the litter.

  • Food

    August 21, 2002

    Hot Dish

    From a bumper crop of Italian cookbooks, the picks of the litter.

  • Food

    June 19, 2002

    The Hot Sheet

    What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.

  • Food

    October 3, 2001

    The Hot Sheet

    What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.

  • Food

    September 19, 2001

    The Hot Sheet

    What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.

  • Food

    August 15, 2001

    Side Dish

    Dough-it-yourself

  • Food

    May 9, 2001

    The Hot Sheet

    What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.

  • News

    May 2, 2001

    17 Seattleites who will be big in the next 25 years

    What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.

  • Food

    April 25, 2001

    Our 100 Favorites (part 3)

    What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.

  • Food

    March 28, 2001

    SideDish

    What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.

  • Arts

    December 6, 2000

    Bested by the Bests

    Best American collections are a treasure for readers, but the Net is diminishing their worth.

  • Food

    November 22, 2000

    Tasteful words

    A local chef shares his herb-infused secrets.

  • Food

    October 6, 1999

    Thesaurus alert!

    The futile search for synonyms for "bliss."

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