Posted in Food + Eating, Planet Earth, Sustainability on Aug 31st, 2010
We want to apologize for any confusion regarding Painted Hills – they are a great purveyor of all-natural beef. In our last blog post and newsletter, we discussed the detriments of corn-finishing. In no way did we intend to insinuate that Painted Hills beef is unsafe – they consistently deliver great product. Our issue with [...]
Posted in Planet Earth, Sandwich Shops, Sustainability, The 206 on Aug 5th, 2010
Okay, we may be exaggerating a little on this one. Our summer seasonal menu features the best local ingredients the state of Washington can grow, but eating our delicious sandwiches won’t completely offset the pollution emitted by our beloved Blue Angels, hydroplanes and pirates. Beyond bringing lots of Homegrown sustainable sandwiches to your Seafair party, [...]
Posted in Planet Earth, Sustainability on Jul 19th, 2010
Signs proclaiming two of the many manifesto’s of Horning’s Hideout, a music venue in the middle of the Oregon woods and home to this weekend’s hippied-out Northwest String Summit.
Posted in Planet Earth, Sustainability, The 206 on Jun 22nd, 2010
Every now and then King County does something rad. The King County Native Plant Holding Facility is accepting donations from the gardens of citizens. If you’re planning on clearing some land or pulling shrubs and trees to replant, don’t just hack ‘em up and yard waste them, pot them for donation to the County’s salmon [...]
Posted in Food + Eating, Planet Earth, Sandwich Shops, Videos on Jun 15th, 2010
Homegrown! from christina russo on Vimeo.
Posted in Food + Eating, Planet Earth, Sustainability, The 206 on May 31st, 2010
The Seattle Time’s Lynda Mapes reported this weekend that the world famous Pike Place Fish Market is going sustainable, following local seafood leaders like West Seattle’s Mashiko Japanese Restaurant. The Market stand’s owner, John Yokoyama, is taking Monk Fish, Chilean Sea Bass and wild steelhead, from the Olympic Peninsula, off the shelves. The local steelhead [...]
Posted in Planet Earth, Sustainability on May 27th, 2010
Excerpts from the New York Times New Estimates on Oil Flow “Using two methods — one based on the amount of oil on the surface and the other on video of the oil emanating at the source — a federal team created a more precise estimate of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. [...]
Posted in Planet Earth, Sustainability on May 24th, 2010
It has taken us too long to talk about the current oil spill, gushing from a blow out on BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The 450-ton Blowout Preventer or BOP, a giant valve meant to seal off oil wells in case of emergency, failed and with no backup in place, the [...]
Posted in Food + Eating, Planet Earth, Seasonal, Sustainability on May 11th, 2010
When we sat down to write the summer seasonal menu, one sandwich we all wanted on the board was a local Albacore tuna sandwich. In a world where eating tuna is either unhealthy for you (mercury) or unhealthy for the ocean (overfishing/high demand for sushi-grade tuna), the next couple months in the Pacific Northwest offer [...]
Posted in Food + Eating, Planet Earth, The 206 on May 5th, 2010
When translated into American English, Cinco de Mayo literally means “have at least five Mexican beers and then walk down Pine wearing your Nacho Libre wrestling mask.” But really, the holiday has a much deeper cultural importance. And when we talk about culture on this blog, we generally focus on the food. The 5th of [...]