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Eating in the Americas: Fusion

OlyEats - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 8:47am
Although it is not unique to the Americas, nor were we the pioneers of it, American food is, buy it’s very nature, fusion cuisine. When you think of fusion cuisine, you might think of Tex-Mex, California Cuisine or some sort of Asian-Pacific-West Coast dish. I grew up with fusion food, or Americanized Korean. It was Kim’s […]
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Young sweet onions

The Plum Palate - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 7:56am
Often it’s eggs and cheese and toast. No vegetables. There’s no time when I’m skimming around the kitchen with wet hair and bare feet. (Cold, bare feet. My cozy birthday slippers aren’t always where I think I left them.) There are complaints. Breakfast is boring. Eggs are disgusting. That is, until I started making thin […]
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Insanely Delicious

OlyEats - Wed, 05/15/2013 - 12:55pm
There is little history about this sandwich. It seems to have originate in Israel with Iraqi Jews. There is no real mythology unless you consider that it is popular on the Sabbath when cooking is prohibited in the Jewish faith. It’s street food. It’s  just a bunch of left-overs. It’s insanely delicious. Move over Falafel – there is a new sandwich in town. […]
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Ship of the Damned

OlyEats - Tue, 05/14/2013 - 10:20am
I used to crew on a big, black boat. A 42′ Sparkman & Stevens called the Oh My God (A.K.A. the GodBoat; the Oh My Godzilla; the Black Pearl and the Ship of the Damned). We terrorized the South Puget Sound Racing Circuit, with a rag-tag crew of social dropout, hairier than average men, and […]
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Drunken Masters: Joseph Campbell

OlyEats - Fri, 05/10/2013 - 12:59pm
“These little intertidal societies and the great human societies are manifestations of common principles; more than that: We understand that the little and the great societies are themselves units in a sublime, all-inclusive organism, which breathes and goes on, in dream-like half-consciousness of its own life-processes, oxidizing its own substance yet sustaining its wonderful form […]
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Drunken Masters: Summit Sirens

OlyEats - Thu, 05/09/2013 - 8:36am
Forget about the father, the son and the holy ghost. The original trinity is wine, women and song. As you drift down the Rhine from winery to winery, if you listen carefully you might here that beautiful and dreadful song. The Siren Song. If you are a woman you will hear your power. If you are […]
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Wheat berries

The Plum Palate - Thu, 05/09/2013 - 8:00am
Much of the wheat crop in Washington waves under bright skies in the eastern half of the state. Where I went to college, people would bike for miles through wheat fields. We’d prefunc on the side of a road somewhere, watching the sun go dusty and red above a glowing field. This state grows a […]
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Drunken Masters: James Joyce

OlyEats - Wed, 05/08/2013 - 3:14pm
I have only ever fallen in real, deep, true love with men who can recommend a good book to me. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for […]
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International Clitoris Awareness Week

OlyEats - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 4:02pm
Yep. My birthday this year happens to coincide with International Clitoris Awareness Week.  As Nadine Gary pointed out to the Huffington Post: “Most American holidays have a drink associated with them,” she laughed. “Maybe someone can come up with one.” Well, there IS this: The Screaming Orgasm 1 oz vodka 1 1/2 oz Bailey’s® Irish cream 1/2 oz […]
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Drunker Master: Keith Floyd

OlyEats - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 9:13am
In mythology master’s come in many guises.  Some are stoic, some are fearsome,  and some look like idiots who are drunk off their asses. Before there was Jamie Oliver, before there was Anthony Bourdain or Andrew Zimmern, there was Keith Floyd - Keith Floyd was born at an early age and educated at Wellington School in Somerset. In […]
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What Do You Want To Do About Dinner?

Real Food NW - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 8:15am
I need some help. I’m in a rut. I know as a food blogger I’m supposed to be a wealth of culinary ideas and inspiration, but lately I can’t figure out what to cook for dinner. Maybe I need a new cookbook, something new to muse over and gain ideas. Maybe I need to find […]
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Drunken Masters: Rumi

OlyEats - Mon, 05/06/2013 - 9:32am
Someone reminded me, the other day, what a great romantic poet Rumi is. He makes me think that Master’s can be drunk on more than just wine. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full […]
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Oatmeal Coconut Raspberry Bars

Real Food NW - Sun, 05/05/2013 - 9:05pm
You know what is amazing, meeting people who love food, baking and Olympia as much as I do. The Bake Olympia booth at Arts Walk was a smashing success. Only in its second year, I think it is becoming a tradition of Arts Walk. It is wonderful to use food to raise money for some really […]
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Drunken Masters: Anthony Bourdain

OlyEats - Fri, 05/03/2013 - 12:16pm
____________________________________________________________________________ “I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one’s own ass, cross the street […]
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Drunken Masters: Dylan Thomas

OlyEats - Thu, 05/02/2013 - 12:15pm
A grief ago A grief ago, She who was who I hold, the fats and the flower, Or, water-lammed, from the scythe-sided thorn, Hell wind and sea, A stem cementing, wrestled up the tower, Rose maid and male, Or, master venus, through the paddler’s bowl Sailed up the sun; Who is my grief, A chrysalis […]
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Rhubarb ginger honeycakes

The Plum Palate - Thu, 05/02/2013 - 7:58am
A couple of weeks ago I put on an apron and pieced through my pantry. There was a big jar of brown rice flour and a bag of millet flour. Later I picked up a bag of gluten-free oat flour, hoping the three together would be the right combination. I was considering one of my […]
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Drunken Master: Hemingway

OlyEats - Wed, 05/01/2013 - 12:24pm
“He always thought of the sea as ‘la mar’ which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their […]
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Drunken Masters: Culinarians, Ink Slingers and Bacchanalia

OlyEats - Tue, 04/30/2013 - 12:39pm
A series about cocktails, recipes and literary ephemera  – enjoy: _____________________________________________________ Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And […]
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Hide and Seek

OlyEats - Mon, 04/29/2013 - 9:21am
When my 88 year old grandfather took ill, my parents flew back to Wisconsin to help him sell his things and bring him out to Washington to live with us. They had originally thought of driving back in his car, but when they arrived they found him in much more serious condition than they had [...]
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A giveaway

The Plum Palate - Sun, 04/28/2013 - 10:52pm
A really nice guy named Travis biked up to the Bake Olympia booth on Friday night. He and I had been in touch via email a few weeks before, when he told me about events he’s organizing through an organization called Dishcrawl. It sounds like the perfect match for him. A former chef, he’s excited […]
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