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It seems to be part of the general publishing dilemma. You don't see great art books either due to the market price /publishing cost equation. What is happening in the fine arts publishing arena is that books are purchased prior to publication deals. So, if the market will support the book, the book will get developed and published. And the general public never sees these books. Vanity press, but with extremely high production value?

Steelhead was open to friends and family last night. Wish I was there.

I like the pool at the Mariott at the Waterfront - half indoor half out - if you can get a deal. It's on the wrong side of the street, but...on the waterfront. There is a museum close by: Maritime Discovery, and walking distance to the new sculpture park and the Seattle Center. Close to Belltown and Downtown. Belltown has numerous sushi places.

Buses aren't free after 7 pm. Maybe Black Bottle for a plate or two at $8.00 each - of course, you can get nice apps all over for the same, even Union, I think. Try a lunch crepe from the stand just outside the convention center on Pike - you'll have enough left over for an ice cream or a coffee. Walk up the hill a couple of blocks for lunch at Baguette Box.

The octopus salad is quite nice - resplendant with white beans, lemon, parsley, and red chilis (those got to be a much by the end.) The manicotti is very rich - split an order. The bread is great (CC?) Like the room - the rough concrete walls with rock pockets, the high open joist ceiling, the metal work, the solid table tops. Not so sure about the giant table - a trend I am a little uncomfortable with.

The apple anadama coffeecake is moist, dark and not too sweet. Why do the recipes in this book take so many bowls?

Caprial Pence, Caprial and John's Kitchen Cory Schreiber, Wildwood Jake's Seafood Cookbook (?!) Leif Eric Benson, The Timberline Cookbook and, of course, anything by James Beard.

Me - we were there last July and it was wonderful. Like a grown up version of Crave - better food and excellent staff. And the diner in the black plether jumpsuit really added an interesting touch.

Torta di Riso - Italian rice cake - haven't made it in years, but loved it. Where is that recipe?

My Dad worked as a soda jerk in Monticello (and grew up there.) My Mom figured she probably ordered one from him 15 years before they met and married in California.

" As Jack Lang recently observed, if you like pig's trotters chances are the butcher won't even charge you for them." Except when they are written about in all the newspapers and they are marked up to $4.99 per pond...

Haha - I called my sweety into the room and said, "Look, it's Amir!" You got a lot of air time. Maybe not as flamboyantly as Bugge got with Paula's boys (poor Eric, pacing in the background) cooking in Matt's.

For the Portland touch - Wildwood, if you can still find it. The odd thing about it is that there are no beef recipes, but anything I have made from it has been excellent. He's the real deal. I like Tom's first book (the only one I have cooked from.) I second Macrina (she was on TV last night, mixing up lemon chrry poundcake for Paula's sons on Road Traveled.)

Yikes, my fig tree (about 80-90 fruits each of the past two years) started as a 12" stick someone handed me. 3 fruit the first year, about 40 the second then 100+ (some for the birds.) In 4 or 5 years it grew too big to harvest, despite strong pruning. I left it behind recently, thinking of sneaking off a cutting - do they grow from a branch cut? Unknown variety - green when ripe, but soft and droopy, reddish inside.

They have a nice selection at Daiso, a Japanese variety store that recently opened in Seattle (Ling says the Richmond BC store is bigger.) It's a $1.50 store - "everything $1.50 unless priced differently" I didn't look at the pricing of the paper pans.

How about trying the new O8 Seafood and/or Twisted Wine Bar at Bellevue Place? Dan Thiessen's new places. He sounded pretty passionate about what he was doing, but we haven't made it to the Eastside to sample the food.

6-12 blocks (except Serafina) - I walk more than that to get lunch or coffee in the morning.

Ah, my cook brought Wondra into my life this year (along with many other gifts.) He also used a touch of cornstarch this evening.

Our bakery (Columbia City Bakery) had danish this morning, made with blood orange curd. They were beautiful pinwheels to behold. (I had the lemon marscapone snowball.)

Restaurant Zoe would be closer. Possibly safer for noise level. Always a treat.

I went to a family reunion the last year of Grossingers (or close to it - 1983, I think.) Fulfilled the childhood fantasy right doen to doing the hokey pokey.

Are you celebrity hunting for breakfast? After yesterday's NYT report, the place might be mobbed with tourists. You could ask the fashion folks at breakfast where to shop...

Read Greg Atkinson's lovely article on Nielsen's Danish this weekend - how is it we have missed it? Anyone try it lately - is it worth the trip? on 2nd, QA

Indian Home Cooking by Suvir Saran. Must have.

I don't think I know of this place......tell me more? ← Kevin Davis: opening Feb 1?