What do we love this week? Cheese, pie, and advise from our moms. Also, staying dry while Occupying Seattle. more ›

Seattle may not always get the most positive press when it comes to apparel, but we'll be damned if our cheese isn't some of the best in the nation. And now, some local cheesemakers have the ribbons to prove it. more ›

This week, our picks (of course) revolve around the plethora of events surrounding Seattle Beer Week. And yes, we are already plotting our strategy/plan for Tamara Murphy's annual meat-tastic event. more ›

One of my favorite food and beverage pairings of all time is beer and cheese. While the combination of wine and cheese has received much attention over the years, I would maintain that beer is more suited for cheese than wine. When pairing wine with cheese, I tend to go with a high acid white wine, since the acidity will cut the buttery, palette coating qualities of cheese. With beer, the carbonation performs this function, as will hops bitterness. Perhaps I am biased, but I find beer to be much more versatile paired with most foods, particularly with cheese. Let’s check out a few Northwest cheeses and some beers to go with them. more ›

Valentine's Day looms near for those who choose to celebrate the tradition. For most that means going out, so we will soon be posting a few places around the city to celebrate. Traditionally people drink champagne, buy chocolate and send flowers, though it's easy to get lost in a maze of mass-produced dreck and teddy bears holding hearts. Listed below are a few places we trust to help you prepare to woo your special someone. more ›

On Friday, federal marshals and representatives of the FDA pulled onto the front lawn of Grays Harbor County's Estrella Family Creamery, demanding that the company surrender all its product: artisan, raw milk cheese. A favorite of foodies and high-end restaurants in several states, the cheese's seizure was an emotional event for not only the Estrella family, but local fans who wait in long farmer's market lines and local restaurants that have fallen in love with the cheese. more ›

A behind the scenes look at the pizza artisans at Delancey in action. more ›

Locavores have it easy in Seattle. We have access to fresh and delicious ingredients year round. Eating local has many benefits. It's a practice that saves on the distance a food travels from production to consumption, the pollution of land and water, health problems among farm workers, the depletion of oil, and the contribution of agriculture to climate change. While locally grown foods tend to be safer, if they do become contaminated they are likely to affect fewer people. more ›

The Tillamook County Creamery Association 100th Anniversary Celebration at the Woodland Park Zoo. more ›

Today's the final day of the Seattle Cheese Festival. Go eat yourself sick until 5 p.m. more ›

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This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent. more ›

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent. more ›

Seattlest has been obsessed with soups lately (it's not quite cold enough for stew). Today we tucked into Than Bros. chicken pho (small, $4.75). Tuesday it was Von's Three Meat Soup (a hearty, verging-on-stew bowlful, $6.95). more ›

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. more ›

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. more ›

Yes, what you see before you is in fact a cheeseburger. And yes, underneath that curtain of fried cheddar is a full 1/3 lb. of juicy meat. On a trip to San Francisco last weekend, Seattlest made a jaunt up to Napa solely to wrap our hands around one of these babies. Sure, we stopped in Sonoma for some wine too, but this burger was the road trip's raison d'etre. more ›

Was this year's Seattle Cheese Festival a little smaller than usual? Or has our appetite for free cheese cubes grown exponentially over the last four years? Whatever the case, the 2008 Cheese Fest was in full effect. We went Sunday, assuming that the temps on Saturday made for a whole lot of gooey, melty cheese, not that there's anything wrong with that. Sure, there were plenty of people at the Market, but we know how to deal with crowds (after all, we are from a City): You don't stand in a proper line, like a good, patient, uptight Seattleite. No, you dart through the crowd, you duck in and out of line to get your cheese samples, you are stealthy like ninja. That was our experience at least. For the fourth year in a row, we happily ate ourselves sick on cheese--as God intended. We asked the rest of Seattlest about their time at this year's Cheese Festival. more ›

HUGE AMOUNTS OF CHEESE: The Cheese Festival is upon us! This is one of our top three favorite events of the year (#2: our birthday, #3: Christmas). Several reasons: a city block full of cheese, friendly vendors, wholesale prices on bottles in the wine garden (don't buy the red wine that says "bacon" three times in its description, we made that mistake last year), and (it bears repeating) a city block full of cheese. more ›

The weather’s really going to warm up this weekend, which means the cheeses will be even more ooey and gooey at the Seattle Cheese Festival, now in its fourth year. We’re looking forward to the wide range of choices (word is there will be 250 or more) from local and international artisan cheesemakers, with an eye out for the most stinky delights. more ›

For years, we’ve heard that the best New York-style pizza in Seattle is actually in Snohomish. more ›

We're not sure what to make of these cheese figures, "sculpted" by one Sarah Kaufmann, except that they gives a bad name to cheddar. Via The Knife. more ›

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer's market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs. more ›