The Swedes invade Seattle and unleash the animal.

Check ’em Out: Who is Miike Snow? DJ. Electronica. Wizard. Jackolope. Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, two Swedish dudes hooked on creating beats teamed up with American Andrew Watts back in 2000 to work on someone else’s pop album.  Evidently this spawned a lasting friendship that would develop into the elusive birth of Miike Snow in 2007.

Win a copy of his debuting cookbook, learn his recipe, and a pop-up you don’t want to miss —

Little known fact: I was a vegetarian for two decades, which is why I’m making up for lost porcine time now that I’ve hit my dirty thirties. Despite my meaty ways, I still have mad respect for vegetarians. Meat is probably the easiest thing on the plate to prepare. It takes a little more ingenuity to showcase vegetables and grains so they truly shine.