Good Food is Everybody's Business
So what do you think B&B stands for? “Bed and Breakfast” or “Breakfast and Bed?” If you’re visiting Blossom’s B&B in Missoula Montana, you’ll find the accommodations are excellent – it’s a restored 1910 Craftsman-style house, after all – but it’s Blossom and her food that make it truly special.
Every spring we’re seduced into buying one – just one – box of strawberries at the market. They always look so beautiful: large berries, bright red, the leaves still attached and fresh… Open the plastic clam shell that displays those berries in all their voluptuousness; like Botticelli’s Venus on the seashell. Hold that little beauty in your palm – OK, stop salivating! Make that first slice right through the center…
Strawberries have been grown in Puget Sound since the early 20th century, primarily in Bellevue (directly across Lake Washington from central Seattle) and on Bainbridge Island, located in Puget Sound. It was Japanese-American immigrants that pioneered the first strawberry farms.
What a winter that was! Five days after Sean’s birth, when we were about to be released from the hospital, we’d had another blizzard. This time, we were “snowed out!” We had to delay our departure until Jerry could get the Highway Department’s big snow blower out to open our driveway. It was drifted in and packed so hard that even the big grader and plow could not get through.
Our healthy living correspondent, Ina Denburg, gave us plenty of good reasons to watch out for all the “Liquid Liars” on the grocery shelves. But what she didn’t talk about is how much of a problem all those plastic bottles are.
Food packaging buzzwords have changed over the years. Here’s a list of those that have been popular during the last five decades and the foods that carried those labels. After you try to figure out what they companies were implying, find out what those words and labels really meant.
Layne Rolston, Good Food Store, Missoula MT, talks about buying from – and supporting – local growers and producers.
Shellfish production is a $100 million business in Washington, and Samish Bay contains many thousands of acres of shellfish farms. Nonpoint pollution, most often caused by agricultural runoff, has closed the shellfish beds repeatedly over the last several years. Now both Skagit County and the state of Washington are focusing on the problem.
