cookbooks

  • BiblioBagels: My Adventures in Bagel Chemistry (Part 1)

    Seattle is not a bagel town. It’s nearly impossible to get a genuine bagel here. Sure, lots of places claim to sell the real thing, but they’re only a pale imitation. And don’t even get me started on bagels from a grocery store—those are just lifeless circles of bread masquerading as bagels. What is a… Continue reading

  • Mushroom Mania

    Autumn in Seattle means rain and lots of it. While many Seattle residents are indoors moaning about the miserable weather, a few of us are rubbing our hands with glee as the drops fall. We are the wild mushroom hunters, and this is our favorite time of year. On any given fall day after it rains,… Continue reading

  • What I Made: Rich Chocolate Ice Cream. Mmmm. Jealous yet?

    Seattle is home to a thriving DIY culture.  As part of an occasional series of posts, we feature hand-made items created by staff at The Seattle Public Library and the library books, CDs, and DVDs that showed them how to do it themselves. We hope you’ll draw inspiration from their creations and check some of… Continue reading

  • Early American Eating

    Back before eating locally was trendy, it was a necessity.  In Depression-era America, one of the WPA projects for out-of-work writers – including Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow and Zora Neale Hurston – was the documentation of regional food traditions.  The bombing of Pearl Harbor cut the project short, and the unedited manuscripts were sent to… Continue reading

  • What a crock!

    On a brilliant blue and blustery day it hit me….the sun may be shining, but autumn is definitely here.  Leaves are starting to litter the ground and the wind bites right through my lightweight summer sweater. I love the change in seasons except for the fact that my walk home from work will now have… Continue reading