Lime. My #2 favorite smell and my #4 favorite taste. Here’s something about my favorite two limey and ready products:
How To Prevent Scurvy and Get a Buzz
in this issue of the Seattle Weekly
Incidentally, my other top four smells are: violets, cardamom, Bailey’s and coffee, and pho. And yes, every one of these smells is grafted […]

Smell is such a personal thing. It’s the way our monkey brain inspects food; it’s the we attract each other; it’s pleasure, memory, nature and nurture. So I don’t know whether it’s my Mediterranean genes that make me love the smell of marzipan, or whether it’s the memory I have of stealing a log of […]

All modesty shot out the window, I started my day late with a message from my editor that I’d won an American Food Journalism (AFJ) Award. My Seattle Weekly column, “Search & Distill,” is up for best newspaper column alongside:
Leah Eskin, Home on the Range in the Chicago Tribune
Jason Wilson, spirits columnist for The Washington […]