The Chocolate Box

The Chocolate Box

Tourists wandering around the Pike Place Market have probably explored the shops that face the Pike Place Ave. Chocoholic tourists will have zoomed in on the Chocolate Box, a store that is actually just one sister of the stores that sit next to it. The 106 Pine wine...
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106 Pine

One of the fun activities that Josh and I like to do together is taste wine. We really started getting into wine tasting when we visited Santa Barbara while in college. The winery that we toured graciously walked us through a wine tasting, and from there we have been...
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If You Write, You Should Be Here

Baisa Fotograferie It goes something like this: you and your closest girlfriends are sitting around at a table. You’ve brought your signature dish. They’re busily and hungrily diving into the delectable treasure, eating like greedy, starved pirates....
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Fun Food in HK

Squid legs! They’re skewered on a stick, and you just point at them. The cook will grab the stick and drop it into a vat of boiling broth that has fish balls floating on the surface. Then she’ll stick the “kabob” in a flimsy paper bag and give...
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Food Trends 2011

Happy New Year! I’m a member of the American Dietetic Association’s Food and Culinary Professionals Working Group. Basically, we discuss nutrition with a food service bent, such as finding out the nutritional value of obscure foods, celebrating new publications, or...