Forget the cranberry sauce for the table – it's time to take that traditional Thanksgiving flavor to the bar instead. Oregon's Portland Cider Co. released its seasonal Cranberry cider earlier this month, featuring a fermented blend of fresh cranberries from Everest...
Your Thanksgiving host has asked you to bring a side dish to contribute to the big meal and you have no idea what to plate up. Worry not, three Northwest chefs have shared their favorite side recipes for Turkey Day and even included a wine recommendation to add to...
Historians believe it was the Romans — per usual with hooch archives — that first recorded spicing and heating their wine for the winter as early as the second century B.C. The medieval English cookbook "The Forme of Cury" explains this phenomenon of mulled wine,...
Simple sophistication meets New England hospitality at Branch Line, a neighborhood rotisserie and wood-fire grill in Watertown, Massachusetts. Best known for its signature Green Circle Rotisserie chicken — a bird that is prepared and roasted for days — craft...
What to drink, what to drink... Selection is rarely the issue in the cozy lakeside offices of Sip Northwest, but decision-making often is. In this week's Bar Tab, the bi-weekly selection of what to drink in the Northwest now, we played a couple rounds of "what is...
In some circles, maraschino cherries have a bad rap. The red-hot, heavily processed, somewhat-bastardized American maraschino (pronounced mara-skeeno) cocktail cherries are picked ripe and put into a brine of sulfur dioxide and calcium chloride designed to bleach...
Winter might be coming, but autumn is here. I can't say I'm a fan of the sun setting before I'm home from work each day but I do dig into fall food and drink with gusto. During this dimmer, cozier time of year, Sundays are sacred for two things: Seahawks and...
Advocates of modern American diner cuisine, Seattle's Skillet restaurant group also embraces the classic American fruit of fall: the apple. What was once street food served from a vintage airsteam parked on the curbs of the Emerald City is now a multi-restaurant...
As if the original 1990 ABC miniseries wasn't scary enough, Stephen King's cult book "IT" has been adapted for the big screen, freaking viewers out since it released last month. A fan of the film, Outlier bartender John Walter created his "Georgie" cocktail for the...
French cuisine can seem daunting for the home cook, but it needn't be. The number of ingredients might add up, yet the flavor alone has a high return on investment. Thankfully, Executive Chef Walter Edward and the team at The Lakehouse take a French country classic...
