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Rebekah Denn

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Seattle's 5 Most Kid-Unfriendly Restaurants

    ​The debate over whether children belong in restaurants flared up again this month when a Pennsylvania restaurant banned all diners under the age of 6, citing noise complaints. "Their volume can't be controlled," Mike Vuick of McDain's Restaurant in Monroeville, Penn., told the Pittsburgh Post ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Will Blog for Food: Demystifying Dumplings at Monsoon East

    In this new weekly Voracious column, yours truly has undertaken the incredibly difficult task of reporting on what the uber-foodies of our city serve to their guests when they throw parties. All of these shindigs will have two things in common: they'll have good food and they'll be hosted by those y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Rebekah Denn Talks Food Writing This Saturday (SOLD-OUT)

    ​To all you food obsessives, food journalists, and/or food bloggers, here's there goes your chance to meet and eat with one of Seattle's most decorated food writers, Rebekah Denn of the shuttered Seattle P-I. UPDATE: Word just in from Rebekah herself: this event has been sold-out, AND there' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Make Reservations Through the Weekly's Online Dining Guide

    ​Seattle Weekly's online restaurant guide is huge, routinely updated, and simultaneously searchable by cuisine and neighborhood, as well as extras like "outdoor seating." Our techs have just built another feature into the guide: Rez, Urbanspoon's online reservation system. (Rebekah Denn wrote ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Congratulations to Jonathan Kauffman....

    ...who just won an Association of Food Journalists award for BEST NEWSPAPER RESTAURANT CRITICISM. Hellz yes. Other people won stuff, like Rebekah Denn, who won for one of her two nominations in the Online Food Reporting category.

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2009

    I Want My $2 Dollar Farmers Market Coupons

    As reported today in the Seattle Times and yesterday by Rebekah Denn on Eat All About It, Cascade Harvest Coalition is launching a new program to try and expand the number of customers at local farmers markets. Over the next two months, $2 "Fresh Bucks" coupons, which can be spent just like cash, ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    The Food Section: Sea Lice, School Lunches, and Other News

    First the bad news, then the good news, floating around the internet: In Austrialia, scientists breed "booster broccoli" and other vegetables for higher antioxidant content. Is there some point at which flavor, and not marketability, will matter to ag scientists? On the Cold Truth, investigative j ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Blog Watch: Push for Canning, Pollan's Polemic, Starbucks Getting Indier?

    Canning Across America has taken cooking enthusiasts on Twitter by storm, with the efforts of a few local writers, and food business people including author Shauna James Ahern and Rebekah Denn and bloggers like semi-pro lollygagger Seattle Bon Vivant. With all the gorgeous fruit at the market at thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    The Food Section: Outer Skirts and Bluefin Stockpiling

    A few of the food news stories making their way around Webland: Sacrificio, Houston style: Fajitas are traditionally made with a cut of beef called the outer skirt steak, but when Robb Walsh discovers 90 percent of it is exported to Japan, he goes in search of what's currently being marketed as "fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Farmers Markets, the Real Street Food, and Other Food News

    How Many Farmers Markets Are Too Many? by Rebekah Denn (Eat All About It): Denn shares the findings of a new USDA study reporting that farmers markets are up, but overall sales aren't quite keeping pace. Which begs the question: Is Seattle's need to have one farmers market per neighborhood hurting e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Maximus Minimus Hits Downtown, Skillet Hits Bump

    Like every other food writer in town, I checked out the new Maximus Minimus truck today (I had to double-check all the photos that have been posted in the past hour to make sure I wasn't in any of them). As Rebekah Denn discovered a few weeks ago, it's the newest project from Kurt Dammeier of Beec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2009

    Cinebarre and Marination Mobile

    Sometimes I'm amazed at how humans choose to consume food. If you think about other species or just the beta versions of our own species, every one of their meals are consumed raw and the result of a day's worth of pursuit. A couple soon to open food experiences, Cinebarre and Marination Mobile, got ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2009

    Raspberries For Hearst: Denn Wins James Beard

    Just announced from the James Beard Journalism Awards in New York City, Rebekah Denn wins the award for Best Newspaper Feature With Recipes. Super-succulent Imports Are Everything U.S. Pork Isn't By Rebekah Denn (Seattle P-I, April, 2008) Congratulations Miss Denn. No word on how the pork as a topic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Blogwatch: Eating $7, Tax Revolt, St. Germain Crawl

    Taking the Hunger Challenge: Starting Monday, April 20th, the United Way asks people to participate in an exercise in empathy, asking you to eat $7 per day for five days. Rebekah Denn opines. (via Eat All About It) Junction Rebellion: Full details on the West Seattle junction's "no tax" day next we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Madame K's stays put, Skillet Street Food moves, and Uwajimaya makes plans

    My Ballard reports that Madame K's will remain open to ride out their lease. Madame K's will be around for at least another 17 months after sales talks fell through. West Seattle Blog confirmed today that Skillet Street Food is headed your way. Looking to make a home at The Junction or the West Se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    James Beard Awards Nominees

    The James Beard Foundation is in the middle of announcing the finalists for this year's James Beard Awards, on Twitter right now. Seattle's Rebekah Denn has been nominated in the Best Newspaper Feature with Recipes category. Ms. Denn's comments on the nomination: "This is about the nicest thing that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    Where the P-I Went

    What happened to those 100-plus members of the P-I staff after the print edition folded - and didn't stay on at the ePI? Rebekah Denn, who is one of them, is making at list. The former P-I food writer/critic keeps a running count on who went where, via her own web site, Eat All About It, which is wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    Rebekah Denn, Out of the Gate With New Blog, Scoop?

    As Kauffman reported, Rebekah Denn, former food editor of the P-I, opens her new blog Eat All About It today. She starts with a post about the rumored closure of Culinary Communion. Read all about it, there. Restaurateurs take note of this post; it illustrates how some of you make it really difficul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    Farewell, P-I Food Section

    Amid all the eulogies and fist-shaking accompanying the end of the P-I's print run today, I wanted to add my own thanks to the paper's food writers. I moved here a little less than three years ago, so I don't have much knowledge of the food section that was. But in the past year or two, I've seen re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    The Lady Alice: An Exclusive

    This morning, Rebekah Denn tweeted (Twittered? Tweetled? Oh you kids and your newfangled lingo) a link to an article in the Columbus Journal-Dispatch about Lady Alice, an apple variety whose grower is trying to control the right to grow it. I read the story and thought, hunh, I just picked up one of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    Anal-Retentive Recyclers, Food Allergies, and Other Food News

    Food news that caught my eye this week:Swinery Update by Rebekah Denn (PI): More on what's happening with Culinary Communion/Gabe Claycamp's Swinery, the cured-meat business that was set to start appearing at farmers markets before the health department put Claycamp's plans on hold. It's all about p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Trophy Cupcake Opens Second Location

    Rebekah Denn at the P-I breaks the news: Trophy Cupcakes is opening a second location in the U Village in the spring. Maggie Savarino Dutton works for Trophy, so to avoid conflicts of interest, neither of us writes about the bakery. Read Rebekah's piece for full details. On a mildly related note, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2009

    Twittering for Food, Hunting for the Ecosystem, and Other Food News

    I dedicate this food news roundup to the future. Because there's nothing quite so awful as the present:Tweating Out by Katharine Shilcutt (Houston Press blog): Not pronounced like "sweat," "TwEATup" is a Twitter-based service in Houston that allows you to post a tweet and find a dinner partner -- in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    More Truths About Raw Eggs and Booze

    Thank you, Rebekah Denn. The P-I's food editor just ran a blog post today in which she weighs competing claims about the safety of using raw eggs in eggnog and cocktails.Last week, Maggie and I went back and forth several times during the editing process trying to figure out the wording she should u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2008

    Correction: West Seattle Farmers Market Closed Today

    This is not news to you all, I'm sure, in the midst of blizzard conditions.  (I'm posting from New Hampshire, which has only winter storm warnings, though it's beautiful from where I'm sitting.) This week's print version of Food Files incorrectly states that the West Seattle Farmers Market is o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    The Ballard Pizza Places Won't Stop Coming

    So, in my roundup of three new Ballard pizza joints, I didn't have the space to mention that the neighborhood is about to get two -- that's right, two -- more. MyBallard blog called me on it. So here are the details:Joint #1: 'Zaw, the Seattle-based startup chain specializing in local, organic take- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Food News Wrapup: The Earnest Edition

    So, in my roundup of three new Ballard pizza joints, I didn't have the space to mention that the neighborhood is about to get two -- that's right, two -- more. MyBallard blog called me on it. So here are the details:Joint #1: 'Zaw, the Seattle-based startup chain specializing in local, organic take- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2008

    Did Someone Say Cheese?

    So, in my roundup of three new Ballard pizza joints, I didn't have the space to mention that the neighborhood is about to get two -- that's right, two -- more. MyBallard blog called me on it. So here are the details:Joint #1: 'Zaw, the Seattle-based startup chain specializing in local, organic take- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2008

    Pyramids for Children, Small-Batch Soy Sauce, and Other Food News

    So, in my roundup of three new Ballard pizza joints, I didn't have the space to mention that the neighborhood is about to get two -- that's right, two -- more. MyBallard blog called me on it. So here are the details:Joint #1: 'Zaw, the Seattle-based startup chain specializing in local, organic take- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2008

    Maggie Wins an Award

    So, in my roundup of three new Ballard pizza joints, I didn't have the space to mention that the neighborhood is about to get two -- that's right, two -- more. MyBallard blog called me on it. So here are the details:Joint #1: 'Zaw, the Seattle-based startup chain specializing in local, organic take- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2008

    Reclaiming Chum, American Beer, and Beaver Ribs (plus Other Food News)

    So, in my roundup of three new Ballard pizza joints, I didn't have the space to mention that the neighborhood is about to get two -- that's right, two -- more. MyBallard blog called me on it. So here are the details:Joint #1: 'Zaw, the Seattle-based startup chain specializing in local, organic take- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2008

    Maggie Dutton Is a Finalist for an AFJ Award

    So, in my roundup of three new Ballard pizza joints, I didn't have the space to mention that the neighborhood is about to get two -- that's right, two -- more. MyBallard blog called me on it. So here are the details:Joint #1: 'Zaw, the Seattle-based startup chain specializing in local, organic take- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2008

    Hangovers, Jam, and Other Food News

    So, in my roundup of three new Ballard pizza joints, I didn't have the space to mention that the neighborhood is about to get two -- that's right, two -- more. MyBallard blog called me on it. So here are the details:Joint #1: 'Zaw, the Seattle-based startup chain specializing in local, organic take- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2008

    Cheese-Making Teenagers, Reindeer Sashimi, and Other Food News

    So, in my roundup of three new Ballard pizza joints, I didn't have the space to mention that the neighborhood is about to get two -- that's right, two -- more. MyBallard blog called me on it. So here are the details:Joint #1: 'Zaw, the Seattle-based startup chain specializing in local, organic take- ... More >>

  • News

    April 23, 2008

    Tasty Brown Balls

    Taste-testing a foundation of Swedish cuisine.

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2008

    Dissing Alice Waters and Other Food News

    Taste-testing a foundation of Swedish cuisine.

  • Food

    March 26, 2008

    Changes at Mistral, Beard Awards, and the Death of Stan's

    Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2008

    Mistral to Close, Undergo Metamorphosis, Reemerge as Giant Lunar Moth

    Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2008

    Chocolate, Gout, and Other Food News

    Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2008

    Food (Network) Gossip

    Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2007

    Food Section: December 5, 2007

    Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2007

    Food Section: November 14, 2007 (Thanksgiving edition)

    Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2007

    Our Own Jess Thomson Judges Mac and Cheese Contest Tonight

    Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2007

    Beard Awards Go to Sundstrom, Denn

    Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2007

    2007 Beard Award Finalists Announced

    Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.

  • News

    May 3, 2006

    Squid Pro Quo on the Menu

    A change in policy for the Best Places series of books has restaurateurs hot under the stove. How should food critics conduct themselves?

  • News

    July 28, 2004

    Monorail, Media

    A change in policy for the Best Places series of books has restaurateurs hot under the stove. How should food critics conduct themselves?

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