Eat & Drink
Rise and Grind
It’s no secret that we like our coffee. Here’s how much
How often do you go to Starbucks, or one of the many other coffeehouses throughout the city? Any idea how much you spend on coffee each year? What’s your bean budget? Turns out that Seattle is the third-best coffee city in the United States. Personal finance website WalletHub compared the 100 largest cities across 12…
Sweet Ambitions
Seattle baker Janet Tan brings her custom cookies to the Food Network
Janet Tan didn’t know how to bake when she moved to Seattle from Malaysia in 2013. With her husband busy attending culinary school, two young daughters at home, and no friends in her new city, she was looking for something to focus on. She stumbled across cookie-decorating tutorials on YouTube. Everything changed. “I had to…
Seattle Strong is on a Cold Streak
Cold coffee business was created in a college classroom
In 2017, Evan Oeflein wasn’t thinking about launching a cold brew coffee company. Like many students in the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, he was just trying to complete a class assignment. But the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s “Create a Company” program wasn’t your typical lecture — it pushed students to turn an…
Political Parties Like No Other
Local activities are putting the “party” in politics
Dubbed Dine4Democracy, the group led by former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein and ex-Microsoft executive Suzi LeVine, and designer and community builder Gemma Daggatt, is organizing a series of 47 parties through mid-October ranging from casual barbecues to multi-course dinners featuring celebrities from the culinary world, music, acting and politics. Costs range from $47 per couple to $4,700 per guest…
The Houses That Fufu Built
Two Seattleites turn culinary holes in their hearts into popular West African restaurants
Fufu, the shared starch of West African cuisines, is a soft pillow of slightly stretchy dough from which eaters pull chunks to use as a utensil and blank canvas for spicy soups. It represents the long traditions of pounding tubers — plantain, cassava, taro, or others, depending on where and by whom — even when prepared from flour on the stove top. For the West African community in Seattle…
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