Dinah’s Cheese is the story about a boy and his loyal… cow. Not quite the tale of Old Yeller, Benji or even Hooch, but Kurt Timmermeister and his cow, Dinah, have started a saga of their own on their Vashon Island ranch, Kurtwood Farms.
Drastic weather changes in the Northwest should not phase us natives. Just because fall made its very distinctive grand entrance last week does not mean we need to alter our habits. It might be time to pack away the swim suits for the season but this year’s rosé releases are only now moving into their prime.
Naples hasn’t always had the cleanest reputation. The Italian port city garnered a messy rap with its overflowing landfills last year, the consistently looming mob crime scene, its historically corrupt local government and its overpopulation (nearly one million
Roosted against a cool stone ledge of the penthouse balcony at Seattle’s historic Sorrento Hotel, I channeled my inner Oscar Wilde — gazing toward my city with twilight looming and clutching a goblet of wormwood to my chest. “A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world,” said the 19th century poet. “What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset.”
TV’s queen of Southern cooking, Paula Deen, has been slightly under fire for her recently public struggle with diabetes and her weight-inducing style of cuisine. The woman loves Crisco, deep-fryers and bacon, all for
Williams Shakespeare once composed that in his youth, he “never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in (his) blood.” Two weeks ago, I applied both hot food and rebellious liquors in my blood at Bellevue’s Z’Tejas Southwestern Grill kick-off for the chain’s annual Chile Fest.
Say what you want about my city – yes, traffic is an atrocious time burglar, the ground is usually wet and no one looks you in the eye as you walk down the street – but you can’t say she has a shortage of Asian cuisine.
