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    Eating Iceland
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    • Feb 5, 2020
    • 5 min

    Eating Iceland

    So you’re thinking about visiting Iceland — for the starkly beautiful landscapes, a glimpse at the Northern Lights, or to learn more about the Viking sagas. But Iceland as a culinary destination? Well, you should visit Iceland for all of the reasons above, including some of the freshest and best food you’ll ever eat. Brown break baked in a geothermal vent! (Cafe at Fontana.) You can even get ice cream in Iceland! (Gelato from Valdis) Some foods consumed traditionally in Icela
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    • Mar 8, 2013
    • 5 min

    Hipcooks — The Hippest Cooking School in LA

    By now, some of you might have divined that I enjoy cooking. The truth is, I just enjoy EATING, and my desire to eat every recipe I read is one reason I like to cook — the other being I love to feed people. I think I’m a decent home chef, but I don’t have much patience for technique or foods that take a long time  or multiple steps to prepare. If there’s a faster way to make Hollandaise or risotto, I’ll find it (and there is, btw). Luckily, my taste lends itself to my cooking
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    • Feb 1, 2013
    • 5 min

    Oysters, Romance, and a Seafood Party

    Oysters taste like the water they were grown in — more specifically, the food they grew up eating. If you were to apply this as a metaphor to people, I would probably taste like a Rudy’s hot Italian sub and an Iron City beer. My palate has become slightly more refined and my nutritional habits have evolved, but Rudy’s is still the standard by which I measure subs.  And now I have a standard by which to measure oysters. The Pacific Northwest has always spoiled me for seafood,
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    • Jan 9, 2013
    • 6 min

    New Year’s 2013 — A Crab Feast and New Beginnings

    Although I’ve lived in Southern California for almost 30 years,  the Pacific Northwest — particularly Seattle and more specifically, Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula — has a hold on me I can’t explain.  I think it tugs at my native Pennsylvanian sense memory — it’s verdant with cedar, fir, rhododendron; brisk from breaking water and crisp winter air.  It gives me a reason to wear wool and eat soups.  It’s a climate that breeds characters that I feel at home with — people tha
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