Can't Miss It: Monday
MEATLESS IN SEATTLE: Carnivorous havens Smith and Oddfellows Cafe are getting in on the Meatless Monday movement. Starting today, both restaurants will offer a host of meatless specials every Monday to encourage sustainable eating. Meatless maven Kim O'Donnel will kick it all off at Oddfellows tonight; she will be signing copies of The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook while Oddfellows chef Thomas Schultz prepares recipes from her book.
6 - 8 p.m. // Oddfellows Cafe // FREE (no, not the food)
LOCAL BEAT: While the publishing industry has shifted dramatically in the past four decades, Counterpoint Press editor Jack Shoemaker is known for staying relevant, nay, essential as a champion of authors. His causes include food writer MFK Fisher and locals like Peter Lewis and Valerie Trueblood. Tonight he's in Seattle to celebrate the works of octogenarian, beat poet, and "child of a stump farm in Lake City" Gary Snyder. Counterpoint reissued Snyder's first book, Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, and Shoemaker will answer questions and host a screening of the documentary The Practice of the Wild: A Conversation with Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison.
7 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Company // FREE
FROM TURKEY TO SHRIMP PASTE: Lark sous chef Wiley Frank spent a year exploring the cuisine of Thailand, but it was the street food that captured his attention. On Monday nights Frank takes over Lark's cocktail sibling Licorous with a menu that includes miniature curried fish cakes and grilled pork collar with tamarind and dried chili sauce. His endeavor is called Shophouse and a little fish sauce will do you some good after all that turkey.
5 p.m. - midnight // Licorous // menu items $3 - $16
