Culture
'Best-of' dining lists should come with a proverbial shaker of salt
Annual awards and other ratings produce some funky, and questionable, results.
Ronald Holden is a regular Crosscut contributor. His new book, published this month, is titled “HOME GROWN Seattle: 101 True Tales of Local Food & Drink." (Belltown Media. $17.95).
Annual awards and other ratings produce some funky, and questionable, results.
New restaurants, a reopened wine bar, and a brand new legal distillery: Seattle never runs out of new places to try.
As the Washington Wine Commission launches a campaign marketing locally produced wines to local wine drinkers, the same (radical!) idea catches on in France.
All three, including two chefs, bring very different talents.
At 30, Jason Stratton of Cascina Spinasse has a reality show and a 'Food & Wine' cover behind him, and who-knows-what ahead of him.