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    Articles by Roger Downey
    Opera news
    Opera news
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Seattle Opera’s season is less than half over, but these days it’s the future that fills the company’s press releases….

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    Chef de cuisine Hervé Mahe primps a plate at Cascadia.
    Cascadia Reconsidered
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Kerry Sear’s restaurant needs to bring its execution back in tune with its ideals.

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    An Atlas of Taste
    An Atlas of Taste
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Most serious wine buffs own an atlas of the vine: Hugh Johnson’s classic World Atlas of Wine, now in its…

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    Gnawing on the bones
    Gnawing on the bones
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Now the scientists turn intransigent in the battle over Kennewick man.

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    The Boeing Style
    The Boeing Style
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    You can classify Washington wine in several ways: by price point, by scale of production, by grape variety, by the…

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    The big three
    The big three
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    It takes some worldly visitors to make a “world class city.”

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    Coming Up Rosés
    Coming Up Rosés
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    After decades of disdain, rosé is suddenly in fashion. Dozens of inexpensive imports from France and Spain are turning up…

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    Six degrees of… devastation?
    Six degrees of… devastation?
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Forget the Y2K bug. Here’s a real 21st-century crisis facing the Northwest: the coming drought years.

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    A vintage year
    A vintage year
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    A toast to 2000—and to Washington’s wine makers.

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    Water Into Wine
    Water Into Wine
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    These are tricky times for winemakers. Used to be every few years the weather was too cool and grapes didn’t…

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    Snorkel (rain) or shovel (snow)? Who knows?
    This winter’s forecast
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Experts say, “Don’t ask us.”

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    Toiling in the Soil
    Toiling in the Soil
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Food consultant Jon Rowley turnshis attentions earth-ward

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    From left: Scott Sommers, head chef Scott Emerick, and Miles James.
    As French as It Gets
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    New in Madrona, Crémant begs a look at the brasseries and bistros of our past.

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    Wine Up Front
    Wine Up Front
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Wine bars have been popular with the Vancouver, B.C., in-crowd for years, and lately they’ve been popping up all over…

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    His way: Pellegrini in his backyard garden.
    In Babbo’s Garden
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Before Julia, before Alice, there was Seattle’s Angelo Pellegrini.

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    Golden Oldie
    Golden Oldie
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Last spring, one edition of this column was devoted to celebrating a notable Northwest wine success story: the 21-year run…

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    H5N1 through a microscope.
    Flu’s Fluidity
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Influenza isn’t an exclusively human disease. Many other creatures have their own versions of it, most significantly waterfowl like ducks…

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    Sips
    Sips
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Spanish vines

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    Wading through it: Christopher Gower fights the Port's bull.
    Dead in the water?
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Sea-Tac’s third runway is flooded with troubles.

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    Rhodies, comme il faut.
    Smokin’
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    On the trail of Zen barbecue.

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