Food & Drink
Merry Fishmas: Feast of the Seven Fishes
Once rarely seen in Seattle, the traditional Italian Holiday dinner is gaining steam, ostensibly thanks to Hulu’s The Bear
As a born-and-raised Seattleite from a lapsed Lutheran family, I’d never heard of the Feast of the Seven Fishes, a traditional Italian holiday meal. That is, until I got hooked on Hulu’s The Bear, wherein a pivotal episode shows the fractious Berzatto family disintegrating over the dinner. Traditionally, “you would fast the entire day, and…
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…
Seattle Baker Wins Food Network Cookie Challenge
Janet Tan’s $10,000 victory moves her closer to her dream
Seattle baker Janet Tan emerged as the winner of Food Network’s The Christmas Cookie Challenge, a victory that brings her one step closer to achieving her dream of opening her own storefront. “I was surprised when I found out that I won because the other bakers are equally talented, and this challenge was so tough,”…
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…
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