A Brewer’s Week of Goodness In case the other 354 days of Portland’s year aren’t sudsy enough for you, here’s cause for celebration: Portland Beer Week returns for a third go ‘round starting next Thursday, June 6. Of course, Portland can’t fit all its good beer...
A Celebration of Salmon Awareness in Northwest Wineries at Seattle's Wine World & Spirits Usually when we think about salmon and wine, it’s a consideration of how best to pair the one with the other. But wineries around the Pacific Northwest are starting to...
Brett Konen gets experimental with the season and offers up recipes on spiked summer smoothies for the holiday weekend. Break out the blenders, people: we’re turning the corner into summertime, and nothing tastes more seasonal than smoothies. These icy delights...
Masters of the Liquid Arts: Snohomish County Celebrates Its Beguiling Craft Beverages Find yourself bewitched by the liquid artistry on display in the breweries, wineries and distilleries of Snohomish County. Friday, May 31 marks the kickoff of Snohomish’s Local...
Bend has long been a yardstick by which we measure other beer-crazy cities. Its breweries will play a large part in Oregon’s upcoming Craft Beer Month (July), participating in and hosting a number of events in town and across the state. Seattle Beer Week paid due...
Farestart, Seattle's Culinary Non-Profit, Plans to Make Event an Annual Occurrence The Showbox in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood most often features spectacles of a musical nature, but one upcoming event is challenging that norm. It’s FareStart’s Guest Chef...
Make Plans to Take a Staycation to Chateau Ste. Michelle Memorial Day’s a month away, and you know perfectly well that you deserve a vacation. You also know you don’t want to fight the floods of travelers also on their way to wherever you might have thought of...
Chardonnay Q & A: Oregon Rekindles Chardonnay Debate with Second Annual Symposium “I suspect Oregon won’t be reticent about its chardonnays for long.” So hypothesized Eric Asimov, wine writer for the New York Times, who argued a year ago that Oregon Chardonnays...
Science Uncorked: The Science of Wine Pairings Comes to the Pacific Science Center During cooking, pineapple develops…volatile molecules from the soloton family. Other members of this family include curry, roasted fenugreek seeds, soy sauce, and sweet wines...
Uncork Your Palate! An Evening of Elegance at Victoria’s Historic Crystal Gardens The illustrious members of the Naramata Bench Winery Association may all approach winemaking distinctly, but they share a belief that “authentic wine experiences” happen in a relaxed...
