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Food
May 16, 2012
Elliott's Oysters Al Fresco
Outdoor shucking completes a surprisingly laborious trip t Downtown Seattle's waterfront.
Blogs
May 10, 2012
Elliott's to Open Outdoor Oyster Bar
Among the Pacific Northwest's greatest joys are sunny summer days and freshly-shucked oysters, but Seattle eaters rarely have the opportunity to experience them simultaneously. Consolidated Restaurants is looking to correct that situation with the city's first outdoor oyster bar. Elliott's Seafood ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2012
Top 10 Wines For Slurping With Oysters
Hey fellow lushes! Excuse me for a sec while I wipe the oyster juice off my chin. The Wino had the pleasure earlier this week of slurping a few Shoguku at Taylor Shellfish and washing those tumbled gems from the sea down with winners from this year's 18th annual Oyster Wine Competition. It was pure ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2012
What Makes an Ideal Oyster Bar?
At seafood marketer Jon Rowley's dream oyster bar, there's pan roast on the menu, Charles Mingus on the stereo and a print of Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and The Carpenter in the bathroom. "Over the past 20 years, I've had the good fortune to work as a consultant on a number of successful oyster bar ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2012
Seattle Shuckers Claim Top Spots in Boston Seafood Show Contest
Customers at Taylor Shellfish's Melrose Market retail store can't complain they're not getting their oysters quickly enough. Head shucker David Leck this afternoon finished first in the International Boston Seafood Show's oyster shucking competition, beating 24 fellow oyster openers. Leck unseated ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
Burger King's Top Chef Reveals Oyster Fantasy
A classic west coast oyster dish would be available alongside French toast sticks and Crossain'wiches, if Burger King's head chef had his way. John Koch, the fast food chain's executive chef and director of product innovation, today told BurgerBusiness.com that his favorite breakfast is a Hangtown ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2012
Tracking Down Seattle's Best Crab Fried Rice
With the exception of a graduate school year spent living 17 Q-line stops away from Coney Island, I've never lived fewer than 250 miles from the ocean. Growing up in Ann Arbor, Mich. (631 miles), my seafood exposure was further limited by my mother's severe fish allergy: The only non-legged animals ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2011
Oyster Lovers Are Crazy for Carroll's Walrus & Carpenter, But What Do Scholars Think?
Jon Rowley's annual series of Walrus & Carpenter after-dark oystering excursions, which starts up again this month, took its name from Lewis Carroll's rhyming story of a man and a walrus. The mismatched companions beckon a parade of oysters to follow them for "a pleasant walk, a pleasant talk ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2011
"It's Not About the Wine, It's About the Oyster"
Photo Courtesy Mike Urban, Elliott's Oyster HouseWe generally stick to the booze talk here on In the Cups, but occasionally this boozehound needs to eat too. I love the seasonality of booze--beer specifically--but love the seasonality of food even more. Pacific Coast oysters can be enjoyed ye ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2011
Taylor Shellfish Hawks Better Way to Crack a Crab
Inside Puget Sound Dungeness crab season started this week, giving eaters another chance to curse their pliers-style crackers. The popular shell openers reliably make a mess of crabs, says seafood marketer Jon Rowley, who's enthusiastically hawking a tool designed to remove leg and claw meat withou ... More >>
Blogs
September 21, 2011
Rachel's Ginger Beer Bourbon = One Smart Cocktail
Photo by Jon RowleyThis hand-crafted ginger beer makes a right fine mixer.Rachel Marshall's handcrafted ginger beer is mighty fine straight up, but, boy howdy, does it make for a refreshing drink when paired with brown liquor. This cocktail is named after the slick lemon juicer that helps tak ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2011
Rachel's Handmade Ginger Beer Kicks Ass and Tickles Noses
Photo by Jon RowleyGo taste Rachel's handcrafted ginger beer on Thursdays at the Queen Anne Farmers Market.Rachel's Ginger Beer ain't no sticky-sweet kiddie soda. It's a grown-up bev that has restorative properties, a bracing brew that also makes a fine mixer. Meet the Rachel behind the labe ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2011
Taylor Shellfish Celebrates Grand Opening Today
Taylor Shellfish Farm today celebrates the grand opening of its retail location at Melrose Market, an expansion that coincides with increased consumer interest in shellfish. According to a report in Nation's Restaurant News, overall seafood consumption in restaurants has been on the decline ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2011
Shuksan Strawberries Scarce at Pike Place Market
Shuksan strawberries, the intensely flavorful varietal beloved by local strawberry lovers, are now in season - but Pike Place Market shoppers might not know it. Angelica Hayton of Hayton Farms in Mount Vernon grows Shuksans, but doesn't sell them at the market. Hayton says that Albions, Rain ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2011
Thousands Turn Out for First-Ever Geoduck Festival
After eating my way through Allyn's inaugural Geoduck Festival this weekend, I'm sure I like geoduck. I'm also quite sure I don't like it in my ice cream. Relatively few of the 2000 geoduck fans who showed up for the event sampled the Olympic Mountain Ice Cream geoduck concoctions, although ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2011
Award-Winning Food Photographer Offers Free Three-Day Workshop
Confronted with the prettiest plate of deviled eggs at Matt's in the Market yesterday, I reached for my phone to take a picture. But I first slid the arrangement beneath a ray of sunlight. "Penny says always use available light," I told my tablemate. Penny De Los Santos is an extraordinaril ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2011
Channeling Hemingway In Search Of The Ultimate Oyster Wine
Photo by Leslie KellyMy view at yesterday's Oyster Wine finals. Pretty awesome, right?The room was church-quiet, the reverential silence punctured only by the sound of slurping as a group of judges worked diligently to find the perfect oyster wine. This was serious business, yet it was all I ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2011
Fishmongers Explore Alternatives to Costly Copper River Salmon
These guys will soon be sharing their ice with spring salmon.With the start of Copper River salmon season just weeks away, local fishmongers are again wondering whether customers will pay the price the vaunted King salmon is expected to fetch this year. Jon Rowley, the seafood marketer who h ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
New Year's Resolution: Go Forth and Forage
Photo provided by Langdon CookPerhaps more than anywhere else in the country, people in the PNW are wildly in touch with their hunter-gatherer gene. Maybe it's the mild weather that makes it possible to unearth delicious treasures year-round, or simply the fact that we're smart - at the very ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2010
Give the Gift of Kitchen Smarts
You avoided the Black Friday sales and managed to focus on work all of Cyber Monday, and what do you have to show for it? You haven't put a dent in your holiday gift buying, that's what! Lucky for you, we have lots of suggestions for the cooks, bakers and cocktailers on your list. Last week w ... More >>
Arts
September 15, 2010
The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events
You avoided the Black Friday sales and managed to focus on work all of Cyber Monday, and what do you have to show for it? You haven't put a dent in your holiday gift buying, that's what! Lucky for you, we have lots of suggestions for the cooks, bakers and cocktailers on your list. Last week w ... More >>
Calendar
September 8, 2010
Rowan Jacobsen
You avoided the Black Friday sales and managed to focus on work all of Cyber Monday, and what do you have to show for it? You haven't put a dent in your holiday gift buying, that's what! Lucky for you, we have lots of suggestions for the cooks, bakers and cocktailers on your list. Last week w ... More >>
Calendar
August 18, 2010
Georgia Pellegrini
You avoided the Black Friday sales and managed to focus on work all of Cyber Monday, and what do you have to show for it? You haven't put a dent in your holiday gift buying, that's what! Lucky for you, we have lots of suggestions for the cooks, bakers and cocktailers on your list. Last week w ... More >>
Food
July 14, 2010
Versus: Short(cake) & Sweet at Anthony's and the Kingfish
You avoided the Black Friday sales and managed to focus on work all of Cyber Monday, and what do you have to show for it? You haven't put a dent in your holiday gift buying, that's what! Lucky for you, we have lots of suggestions for the cooks, bakers and cocktailers on your list. Last week w ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2010
Versus: Short(cake) and Sweet
The Dish It's the simplicity and flavor of summer at its peak -- the strawberry shortcake. This homey dessert is an artful, rustic creation made with homemade whipped cream, fresh strawberries and a warm biscuit. What this dessert is not is a gloppy mess strewn with store bought whipped topping, an ... More >>
Food
April 14, 2010
Table Tops: the 2010 Seattle Weekly Food Awards
The Dish It's the simplicity and flavor of summer at its peak -- the strawberry shortcake. This homey dessert is an artful, rustic creation made with homemade whipped cream, fresh strawberries and a warm biscuit. What this dessert is not is a gloppy mess strewn with store bought whipped topping, an ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2010
Ask the Critic Redux, Redux: Pellegrini Awards And The Return of Cat Scratch Feeder
Though he didn't exactly stay on topic, my new favorite comment poster, Cat Scratch Feeder, posed a second important question in the thread related to my tireless search for green chile in places where green chile does not naturally exist. This one had to do with our upcoming Voracious Tastin ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2009
Nooooooo... Shigokus
Due to extremely high demand, Shigoku oysters were already becoming the four leaf clover of the bivalves. Shigoku oysters are a new, tumbled oyster from Taylor Shellfish Farms; they have a deeper cup (from the tumbling) and therefore plumper morsel of the mollusk. It's the Adrienne Barbeau of ... More >>
Food
August 26, 2009
Pie Time for Love
Overabundance finds a warm, crusty home.
Food
May 6, 2009
Search & Distill: Oyster Wine Reconsidered
It’s alright to look beyond “classic pairings” every now and then.
Blogs
April 27, 2009
2009 Pacific Coast Oyster Wine Competition Winners
Last Thursday at the Seattle leg of the Taylor Shellfish Farms' Pacific Coast Oyster Wine Competition, Jon Rowley opened with the very popular passage from Moveable Feast by Hemingway about the job a proper minerally white wine performs when complimenting an oyster. It's one way to look at it, but w ... More >>
Food
January 14, 2009
Nominate Your Favorite Food Revolutionary
Name your favorite farmer, restaurateur, baker, or anyone else who you think has shaped the way Seattle eats.
Blogs
August 27, 2008
Irradiation, Jell-O, Candy Bingeing, and Other Food News
Name your favorite farmer, restaurateur, baker, or anyone else who you think has shaped the way Seattle eats.
Blogs
June 24, 2008
Kids Who Cook, Rich People Who Trade Vegetables, and Other Food News
Name your favorite farmer, restaurateur, baker, or anyone else who you think has shaped the way Seattle eats.
News
May 14, 2008
Salmon Caught in the Carbon Net
Our mania for wild, fresh boutique fish comes at a high environmental cost.
Blogs
April 28, 2008
The Only Wine Competition You Ever Need Pay Attention To
Our mania for wild, fresh boutique fish comes at a high environmental cost.
Blogs
March 11, 2008
Make of Your Stomach a Warehouse
Our mania for wild, fresh boutique fish comes at a high environmental cost.
Food
March 5, 2008
Sustainability Award: Mark Musick
Honoring major contributions to sustainable agriculture and environmentally responsible food production in the Puget Sound area.
Blogs
February 8, 2008
Love oysters? Open up at home.
Honoring major contributions to sustainable agriculture and environmentally responsible food production in the Puget Sound area.
Blogs
October 31, 2007
Oysters, A Quarter Each
Honoring major contributions to sustainable agriculture and environmentally responsible food production in the Puget Sound area.
Blogs
June 15, 2007
Better than Copper River King Salmon: Yukon River King Salmon
Honoring major contributions to sustainable agriculture and environmentally responsible food production in the Puget Sound area.
News
November 1, 2006
Props to the Uptight Seattleite
"Uptight and self-righteous, your NPR tote-ing, organic-drinking ghost-columnist is a perfect rendition."
Food
October 18, 2006
Honoring Jon Rowley
Announcing the winner of the 2006 Pellegrini Award.
Food
June 14, 2006
Hook, Line, and Urethane
Commercial trolling for wild salmon makes a comeback.
Food
November 23, 2005
Thanks-Giving
Announcing the first stage of our annual Pellegrini awards.
News
May 18, 2005
The Wild, Wild West
Announcing the first stage of our annual Pellegrini awards.
Food
May 11, 2005
Shell Game
Announcing the first stage of our annual Pellegrini awards.
Food
January 14, 2004
Food Files
Announcing the first stage of our annual Pellegrini awards.
Food
April 9, 2003
Apple Juice & Barbeques
Announcing the first stage of our annual Pellegrini awards.
News
April 28, 1999
Toiling in the Soil
Food consultant Jon Rowley turnshis attentions earth-ward
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