Seattle Local Food

Seattle Local Food has been nominated Best Food Blog at the King 5 Best of Western Washington contest! First, thank you to whoever nominated the site.  I really appreciate it.  If you’d like to vote for us, go ahead!  You can vote using this button: (Second, as a fan of lolcat nerdiness, I always think [...]

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I first learned to make this dish from an ex-boyfriend, who learned it from his grandmother in Provence. But since then, I’ve cooked it for several friends from Sephardic Jewish backgrounds.  ”Oh, nice fasolia!” they said.  It turns out that fasolia, or fasoulia (or I’m sure countless other spellings/pronunciations) is a traditional Sephardic dish as [...]

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A New York Times article disparaging local eating generated a fair amount of buzz when it was published last week, mostly writing it off.  I’m not surprised, since it contains a number of flaws in logic. I encountered the article when an acquaintance rather triumphantly brought it to a local-foods themed Shabbat dinner potluck.  No [...]

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There are some recipes that should remain unaltered. These are generally the recipes that are a combination of  memory-entwined, delicious, and very simple, so that a single change would transform the nature of the dish significantly. This view is a departure from what I wrote in my last post, about finding the freedom to experiment [...]

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My love for Thai food stems mostly from a college semester I spent living in Chiang Mai, a small, beautiful city in the north of Thailand with spectacular food. It took a while for me to love the food rather than just like it.  Tiny, incredibly hot chilis looked deceptively like mild string beans as [...]

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Thanks to the Seattle City Council, it’s now legal to have up to eight chickens in Seattle!  No roosters, which is probably a good compromise, considering their tendency to be rather vocal. The new bill, described here, also expands urban farming to be allowed in all zones, with some limits in industrial areas, and makes [...]

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