In the midst of the holiday craziness, Veil hosted a wedding party. A small wedding, the bride and groom, brought their very small wedding party in for a special 6 course menu on a Friday, following their ceremony, and all their friends and family in for a cocktail reception the next evening.
With all the [...]

Seattle’s indie newspaper The Stranger has a holiday tradition, an auction of unique gifts every december collected in their Strangercrombie catalog. The catalog was put together as an excuse to raise money for a local charity while mocking the soft porn style advertising Abercrombie’s clothing catalog is notorious for. (The irony of no [...]

The food blog awards have crept up on us again, this time with out much fan fare or warning.  Perhaps it’s because they are hidden a site I don’t frequent, Well Fed Network’s, or perhaps I’m just a bit absent from the bloggy world.
Either way, you have until tomorow to make your nominations, which is [...]

With all the menu’s posted online documenting the extensive tables bloggers are setting for thanksgiving, I thought I’d share how most cooks will spend the holiday.
They will most likely spend the time working a grueling shift wednesday to acomodate all the people with extra family and friends in town, and go in early friday to [...]

Do you ever ask too many questions? Do you ever look around a little too much, and find that in looking for one simple answer you have only found more questions? Have you ever innocently opened the proverbial can, looking for one little worm of information, only to find yourself staring into an [...]

With every restaurant, there are essentially two sides. The restaurant (us) vs. the customers (them). We are two sides of an equation, relying on the other for existence. In this equation, inevitably there will be conflict. The general rule in dealing with this conflict seems to be that the customer is [...]

While looking for a new position and spending countless hours talking to various people, I am beginning to feel a bit like a broken record. The same questions are pressed to me at each stop, the same words string from my mouth in answer.
Hearing something for the third time, I realized how ingrained into my [...]

 
From time to time, I am asked for advice. Mostly about food, sometimes about cookbooks, and quite often for restaurant recommendations, but every once in a while, I get this reoccurring line of questioning; “My son/daughter wants to go to culinary school! What kind of advice can you give us?”
Along with information [...]

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Working at The Rainier Club has it’s perks for sure, but there are a lot of things I miss about Eva. I miss my daily chats with Amy, a chef who felt more like a friend than a boss, walking the 6 blocks to work every day, and my menu. Amy [...]

Rosemary Syrup
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
3 medium sprigs of rosemary, needles cleaned from the stem
1. Place the water in a small pot and bring to a boil. When the water starts boiling, remove from heat and stir in the sugar until it completely dissolves and the syrup is translucent.
2. Add the rosemary, [...]