Local Food
Great shakes?
Who's your favorite local milkshake maker? Vote in our poll
Date: 05/30/2012 | The Dish
Council gives Terrace farmers market its support
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE -- The City Council is backing the local farmers market, saying it offers a place for residents to meet their neighbors and that it supports local businesses.
Date: 05/30/2012 | Local News
Dandelions: They're the gateway weed
Two regional Pacific Northwest experts will be speaking at the Everett Public Library, bringing new ideas to people interested in growing and harvesting food.Both focus on the importance of sustainable agriculture, and finding food locally.
Date: 05/29/2012 | Life
Vintage aircraft, beer mixer at Kilo-7
A special beer will be matched to each of the historical aircraft in the collection of the Historic Flight Foundation for a fundraiser tonight at Kilo-7.The event, Beer Flights, will include an auction and food, provided by some of the region's finest purveyors.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Entertainment
Edmonds urban gardens gets OK
EDMONDS -- What Michael Mearns wanted to do was to feed his neighborhood from his neighborhood garden, Rubberneck Farms.The sticking point was a city code calling for a $500 conditional permit fee for farm stands in the city of Edmonds.
Date: 05/17/2012 | Local News
Beer Flights will match ales, food to historic planes
Only at the Historic Flight Foundation would an extra six pack of beer be delivered by a B-25 twin-engine bomber.That's exactly what is planned for Beer Flights, a fundraiser, auction, beer and food event on May 18 at Kilo-7.
Date: 05/16/2012 | Life
Taste of Tulalip tickets go on sale today
Plan now if you want to attend the popular Taste of Tulalip, scheduled for Nov. 9 and 10.Last year's event sold out quickly, officials said.
Date: 05/11/2012 | Entertainment
Everett Farmers Market has new owners
The Everett Farmers Market is under new ownership and management. Karen Erickson and Gary Purves have taken over from longtime owners Inger and Tone Hutton.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Bizblog
Tickets go on sale soon for popular Taste of Tulalip
Foodies take note: Plan now if you want to attend the Taste of Tulalip, scheduled for Nov. 9 and 10.Last year's event sold out quickly, officials said.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Life
Ornamental shrubs that bear edible fruit
So planting fever has grabbed you, and you're heading out to your favorite nursery or thumbing through a catalog to see what's available in shrubs.Decisions, decisions. Should your shrubs offer tasty berries or good looks?
Date: 05/03/2012 | Home and Garden
Sample locally distilled spirits in Snohomish
It's no secret that Snohomish County and Washington state are home to some of the best wine makers in the world. We're also quickly being recognized for some of the very finest spirit producers.
Date: 04/20/2012 | Entertainment
Flock to Coupeville’s chicken coop tour
WHIDBEY ISLAND -- Fowl fans are invited to flock to Whidbey Island on Saturday for the third annual coop tour.
Date: 04/18/2012 | Local News
Forget the tulips: Enjoy Skagit Valley rhubarb
Skagit County grows a lot more than tulips.After a day cycling around Skagit County, I couldn't resist stopping at a small farm stand. Big stalks of red rhubarb was among the fresh-picked produce, so I grabbed a bunch.
Date: 04/17/2012 | The Dish
Snohomish celebrates spirits
It’s no secret that Snohomish County and Washington state are home to some of the best wine makers in the world.We’re also quickly being recognized for some of the very finest spirit producers.
Date: 04/16/2012 | The Dish
In Skagit Valley, Tulip Festival now in full bloom
It's Friday the 13th and hopefully your luck is good and the tulips are blooming.The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival continues through April. Early varieties are up and more tulips are predicted to be popping through April 22.
Date: 04/13/2012 | Entertainment
Less grass, more veggies
More are turning over their yards to fruits of labor
Date: 03/15/2012 | Home and Garden
Cooking classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 03/14/2012 | Life
Basil farm growing again
Loyal stores waited for Camano farm after fire
Date: 03/07/2012 | Local News
Whole Foods almost ready
Lynnwood store opening March 15 will be first in county
Date: 03/05/2012 | Business
Celebrate, and eat, mussels in Coupeville this weekend
Head to Coupeville this weekend to celebrate Penn Cove's bountiful bivalve.The Penn Cove MusselFest runs from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight, 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Date: 03/02/2012 | Entertainment
Every neighborhood deserves a cafe like Carol's in south Everett
The denizens of this part of the Pinehurst-Beverly Park neighborhood in Everett really like Carol's Cafe and Bakery. I could tell as customers quickly filled up the place on a recent Sunday morning.
Date: 03/02/2012 | Entertainment
School lunch, reinvented
Schools are improving nutrition with locally grown food
Date: 02/19/2012 | Local News
Cooking Classes
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Date: 02/15/2012 | Life
Whidbey Island tour pairs chocolate and wine
The people behind the Whidbey Island Vintners Association came up with a perfect coupling to celebrate Valentine's Day and its homage to romance.Locally made chocolate, may we introduce you to locally crafted wine?
Date: 02/10/2012 | Life
Cooking classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 02/01/2012 | Life
Cooking classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 01/25/2012 | Life
A sweet deal in Everett
Hispanic bakery popular for its ‘conchas' and weekly sales
Date: 01/16/2012 | Business
5 food trends to watch
Local food is big and four other predictions for 2012
Date: 01/11/2012 | Life
Food classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 01/11/2012 | Life
Cooking classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 01/04/2012 | Life
The gluten-free, locally sourced year in food
2011: The year I officially became the last American to still eat gluten.
Date: 01/04/2012 | Life
Cooking Classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 12/28/2011 | Life
Cooking classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 12/21/2011 | Life
Dietary manager knows her grub and customers at Stanwood's Josephine home
Helen Vindasius might mysteriously disappear, Jimmy Hoffa style, if she served pot pies again."You won't find my body," she said with a grin.It's no reflection on the cooks, but her clients are fed up with pot pie.
Date: 12/14/2011 | Local News
Initiative will increase shellfish farming in state
SEATTLE -- Washington state's cool marine waters make growing oysters, clams and mussels ideal, but hurdles with permits, farmers say, means they aren't able to grow as much as they would like to meet increasing demand.
Date: 12/09/2011 | Northwest
Food Classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 12/07/2011 | Life
Is Dick's worth the fuss?
Our restaurant reviewer tries her first Deluxe in Edmonds
Date: 11/25/2011 | Entertainment
Eat dessert first?
Or will turkey win the Food Fight? We're down to the wire
Date: 11/23/2011 | The Dish
Cooking Classes
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Date: 11/23/2011 | Life
Weekend clam digging OK on Washington beaches
OLYMPIA -- Instead of leftover turkey, how about fresh razor clams this weekend?The Fish and Wildlife Department has approved razor clam digging Friday and Saturday on some Washington coastal beaches on evening tides.
Date: 11/21/2011 | Northwest
Cooking Classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 11/09/2011 | Life
How to pass down your best recipes so they can be treasured for generations to come
If you want to give a really great personal gift this holiday season, you might consider sharing a treasured family recipe. Passing special recipes on to the next generation or even a good friend is a way to share a bit of yourself and perhaps carry on your family's traditions.
Date: 11/06/2011 | Life
Front Porch: Make rommegrot and vafflers part of your complete breakfast Saturday in Silvana
Buy some rommegrotPeace Lutheran Church Women's "Early Country Christmas'' bazaar is planned for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at 1717 Larson Road in Silvana.
Date: 11/04/2011 | Local News
Cooking classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 11/02/2011 | Life
Cooking classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 10/26/2011 | Life
Cooking classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 10/19/2011 | Life
Honor the dinner hour
Moms' book shows how to keep the family around the table
Date: 10/17/2011 | Life
Twenty scoops on pumpkins
Whether it's for dinner, dessert or carving jack-o'-lanterns, nothing says fall quite like shiny orange pumpkins. We've got ideas.1. Check out your local farm or farmers market for varieties like "Oz" or "Spooktakular"
Date: 10/17/2011 | Life
Charming Coupeville
Whidbey Island day-tripping easy without swarms of tourists
Date: 10/14/2011 | Life
Crazy for cupcakes
Delectable treats popping up everywhere. Which ones are best?
Date: 10/13/2011 | The Dish
Snohomish's dueling cupcake shops put to the sweet-tooth test
Why do we need cupcake shops?We can bake and frost two dozen cupcakes of our own for less than $3, the average cost of just one specialty shop cupcake.
Date: 10/13/2011 | Entertainment
Dining: Clearview pizzeria's slices topped with charm, attitude
CLEARVIEW -- When we asked readers to tell us about their favorite Snohomish County pizza places earlier this year, one of the most promising recommendations was for #1 New York Pizza in Clearview.
Date: 10/07/2011 | Entertainment
Learn all about 'shrooms in Everett
You will no longer be kept in the dark about mushrooms.More than 100 different types of mushrooms along with demonstrations and lectures are all part of the annual Fall Mushroom Show.
Date: 10/07/2011 | Entertainment
Where to find pumpkins, get lost in mazes
Here's a list of some area pumpkin patches, corn mazes and harvest festivals. If you have a pumpkin patch, festival or maze that's not on this list, send it to The Herald at features@heraldnet.com.Snohomish, Island counties
Date: 10/07/2011 | Entertainment
Add the kraut ... and fun
Fill up on food, music at this weekend's Everett Sausage Fest
Date: 10/06/2011 | Entertainment
Cooking classes
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Date: 10/05/2011 | Life
Pumpkins and more
Where to find October's corn mazes and harvest festivals
Date: 09/29/2011 | Entertainment
Food Classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details, including times and costs.
Date: 09/28/2011 | Life
Farmers Markets
Arlington Farmers Market: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 1, Legion Park, 200 N. Olympic Ave., Arlington; 360-435-9272; www.arlingtonfarmersmarket.org.
Date: 09/28/2011 | Life
Apples an apt ingredient
Move beyond pies and include apples in dishes savory or sweet
Date: 09/27/2011 | Life
Celebrate all things cranberry
The television commercials for Ocean Spray cranberry juice would have you think that the tart red fruit only grows in New England's bogs.Think again.Cranberry bogs are plentiful enough on the Washington Coast. The area from Westport through Grayland is known as the Cranberry Coast.
Date: 09/24/2011 | Life
Have fun down on the farm at Harvest Jubilee in Stanwood
On Saturday, the world of farm life takes center stage as the Harvest Jubilee celebrates our agricultural heritage with farms opening up their doors for families to enjoy hay and tractor rides, fresh food, music and lots of livestock.
Date: 09/23/2011 | Entertainment
Donate homegrown food, see Dan Hinkley this week
Producing produce? Is your garden yielding more than you can eat? Then now is the time to share your harvest with food banks.
Date: 09/22/2011 | Home and Garden
Farmers markets
Arlington Farmers Market: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 1, Legion Park, 200 N. Olympic Ave., Arlington; 360-435-9272; www.arlingtonfarmersmarket.org.
Date: 09/21/2011 | Life
Cooking classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 09/21/2011 | Life
State's fruit growers to donate $27 million to WSU
SPOKANE -- The state's apple and pear growers have voted to donate $27 million over the next eight years to support tree fruit research at Washington State University, the largest single gift in the Pullman school's history.
Date: 09/20/2011 | Northwest
Late apple harvest under way in Washington
Yakima Herald-RepublicYAKIMA -- It's getting to be a common thread for Yakima Valley agriculture in 2011. Like so many crops before it, the apple harvest is late, in some cases as much as two weeks.
Date: 09/20/2011 | Business
Potatoes au gratin, 80 feet by 8 feet, could mash old record
All eyes will be on Mount Vernon on Saturday.That's when a spirited group of potato devotees attempts to produce the largest potatoes au gratin during the "Spirit of the Spud" event in downtown Mount Vernon.
Date: 09/19/2011 | Life
Dan Hinkley to speak at Molbak's Sept. 23
Dan Hinkley, a well-known local plant expert and collector, will present a special after-hours talk on fall and winter plants at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23 at Molbak's Garden + Home, 13625 NE 175th St.,...
Date: 09/19/2011 | Mudrakers
Donate your backyard bounty to food banks. Here's how
Is your garden producing more than you can eat? Then now is the time to share your harvest with local food banks, who are in need of fresh food.
Date: 09/16/2011 | Mudrakers
Cooking Classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 09/14/2011 | Life
Farmers Markets
Arlington Farmers Market: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 1, Legion Park, 200 N. Olympic Ave., Arlington; 360-435-9272; www.arlingtonfarmersmarket.org.
Date: 09/14/2011 | Life
Cooking Classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.A Chef's Kitchen: 16905 Talbot Road, Edmonds; 206-406-1517; www.a-chefs-kitchen.com or e-mail achefskitchen 425-231-9239.
Date: 09/07/2011 | Life
Farmers Markets
Arlington Farmers Market: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 1, Legion Park, 200 N. Olympic Ave., Arlington; 360-435-9272; www.arlingtonfarmersmarket.org.
Date: 09/07/2011 | Life
Farmer's markets
Arlington Farmers Market: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 1, Legion Park, 200 N. Olympic Ave., Arlington; 360-435-9272; www.arlingtonfarmersmarket.org.
Date: 08/31/2011 | Life
Evergreen State Fair results
OC Needle ArtsGrand Champion: Stefanie Stadnicki, LynnwoodBest of Division: Stefanie Stadnicki, Lynnwood; Renée Pietsch, Snohomish; Jean McGuire, Lynnwood
Date: 08/26/2011 | Local News
A little planning makes for less stressful canning
It's crunch time for the fruit harvest. From caneberries and blueberries to apricots, peaches and cherries, for home preservers, it translates into white knuckles and frazzled kitchens.
Date: 08/24/2011 | Life
A little tomato and mozzarella
Caprese salad serves the best parts of pizza -- fresh
Date: 08/24/2011 | Life
Farmers markets
Arlington Farmers Market: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 1, Legion Park, 200 N. Olympic Ave., Arlington; 360-435-9272; www.arlingtonfarmersmarket.org.
Date: 08/24/2011 | Life
Food classes
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 08/24/2011 | Life
Downtown Everett’s A Pizza House offers hearty pizzas by slice or pie
When I heard there was a pizza place at the northeast corner of Everett and Colby avenues, I was perplexed: Where?
Date: 08/19/2011 | Entertainment
Free creative fun at Island County Fair
The focus of the Island County Fair is farm education with lots of exhibits where visitors can learn about farm life: livestock and crops, baking and canning.That doesn't mean life on the farm can't be fun. Or free.
Date: 08/19/2011 | Entertainment
Don't ignore albacore
In a salmon rut? Tuna grills well and pairs with Pacific flavors
Date: 08/17/2011 | Life
Farmers markets
Arlington Farmers Market: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 1, Legion Park, 200 N. Olympic Ave., Arlington; 360-435-9272; www.arlingtonfarmersmarket.org.
Date: 08/17/2011 | Life
Food calendar
These local businesses offer cooking classes and other related events. Go to their websites, email or call for details on upcoming classes, including times and costs.
Date: 08/17/2011 | Life
Disturbing images from undercover pig video linger
Remember two months ago when the animal rights group Mercy for Animals released a disturbing undercover video from an industrial farm in Iowa run by the fourth-largest pork producer in the nation,...
Date: 08/10/2011 | Eco Geek
Clean, green pork?
Why it's hard to find it locally, and what your options are
Date: 08/10/2011 | Eco Geek
Preserving feeds your soul as well as your family
Why do I can? Why DO I can?For my ancestors the answer was simple: to survive. To ensure that not even a single morsel from the harvest would go to waste.
Date: 08/10/2011 | Life
Cooking classes
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Date: 08/10/2011 | Life
A winner of a weeknight quesadilla
When it comes to quesadillas, I tend to go one of two ways, neither of them great.
Date: 08/10/2011 | Life
Farmers markets
Arlington Farmers Market: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 1, Legion Park, 200 N. Olympic Ave., Arlington; 360-435-9272; www.arlingtonfarmersmarket.org.
Date: 08/10/2011 | Life
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