Savor the Flavors of Seattle The Seattle food scene is a way of life. Foragers find mushrooms in the forests, nettles by the creeks, and sea beans by the ocean. Fish mongers and farmers take pride in their ingredients, and artisan cheese makers, butchers, chefs, chocolatiers, baristas, and roasters push the boundaries of the city’s playful palate. In Food Lovers’ Guide to Seattle, seasoned food writer Laurie Wolf shares the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate these culinary treasures. A bounty of mouthwatering delights awaits you in this engagingly written guide. With delectable recipes from the renowned kitchens of the city’s iconic eateries, diners, and elegant dining rooms, Food Lovers’ Guide to Seattle is the ultimate resource for food lovers to use and savor. Inside You'll Find: • Favorite restaurants and landmark eateries • Specialty food stores and markets • Farmers’ markets • Food festivals and culinary events • Recipes from top Seattle chefs • The city’s best cafes, taverns, and wine bars • Cooking classes • Complete coverage of Pike Place Market

Who makes the best baguette in town? And what about the ingredients for that Bengal curry recipe? Take a trip through the bountiful universe of specialty foods and ethnic markets in Seattle with this essential guidebook for people who live to eat.Seattle is bursting with wonderful flavors, and this essential guide-book will lead food lovers to all of the best sources for fresh greens, fish and shellfish, artisan breads and sinful baked goods. Seattle is full of authentic cheesemakers, old-fashioned butchers and fish mongers, plus a lively array of ethnic markets with foods from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, India, and Scandinavia. Author Katy Calcott tracks down and recommends the best purveyors around town. Hungry in Seattle? This guide will assure that you eat well.

Seattle may not be as old as some would expect from a haunted city. But it has a large number of haunted sites and stories. Spooked in Seattle will lead readers on a journey through Seattle's neighborhoods and reveal the city's public locations, history, and tales of strange encounters. For those who love to venture off into corners in search of ghosts and the unknown, this book will set readers forth in the right direction. Spooked in Seattle features more than 150 haunted locations, historic and contemporary photos, top ten questions about ghosts, Seattle's top ten most haunted places, location maps and addresses, Seattle history and haunted facts, Seattle cemeteries and tombstone symbols, and more. Spooked in Seattle presents many locations throughout the city that are believed to be haunted, claim to have ghosts, or have undergone investigation. All of these stories are broken down into sections based on the city's neighborhoods with corresponding addresses to make finding them easier for the ghost enthusiasts. Maps and photos help bring to life the locations, making the Seattle ghosthunting experience easy and enjoyable.

The soothing smell of lavender, rosemary's piney flavor, the bright colors of nasturtiums . . . herbs are wonderful things! In this handsome volume, Mary Preus provides a delightful entree into the world of herbs with detailed instructions on how to grow 50 of the most popular herbs and create an herbal lifestyle. Easy and delicious recipes, herbal crafts and gifts, landscaping with herbs, traditional and modern medicinal use, aromatherapy--it's all here in The Northwest Herb Lover's Handbook.

The de facto how-to manual of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which provides free food to the homeless and hungry and has branches in countries on every continent except Antarctica, this book describes at length how to set up and operate a Food Not Bombs chapter. The guide considers every aspect of the operation, from food collection and distribution to fund-raising, consensus decision making, and what to do when the police arrive. It contains detailed information on setting up a kitchen and cooking for large groups as well as a variety of delicious recipes. Accompanying numerous photographs is a lengthy section on the history of Food Not Bombs, with stories of the jailing and murder of activists, as well as premade handbills and flyers ready for photocopying.