Bacon Salt? Seattlest first heard of this a few days ago, but the locally produced vegetarian kosher zero-calorie seasoning salt that tastes just like bacon has been igniting the blogosphere. One of Seattlest's foodie friends let us try some Tuesday night when we were playing trivia. Our response? "Yummy." His response? Extensive cooking notes, America's Test Kitchen-style. Is Bacon Salt as tasty as it sounds? Read on. Overall, Bacon Salt is quite good. It produces......

So, the Seattle P-I restaurant critic writes that "Safeco's got some of the worst food in the major leagues." That statement struck a nerve with this Seattlest, as we tend to think that Safeco has some of the best food in MLB parks. The variety and quality of food you can get at Safeco just cannot be matched by very many stadiums around the country. Just a sample of what you can get:Dixie's BBQ -......

Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but about as close as they'll get. They're also still waiting on some inbox relief after a spammer is arrested. As Chicagoist counts down the days to its third anniversary party, they found all-organic pizza to be underwhelming amidst the hoopla, tried......

The overnight blogs are abuzz: Tenet (slamdunking Iraq) and Goldy (recycling poisoned pet food). Both merit close attention, but Goldy (David Goldstein) is right here in Seattle, and he's making international news. Let's not forget that his blog, HorsesAss.org, was the first to reveal Michael Brown's bogus credentials to run FEMA. This time, it's another fuckup, but with truly ominous potential: China's melamine-laced pet food was recycled as feed for domestic pork, and our......

Best thing we learned at last night's quiz: Gabriel Garcia Marquez looks like "Agatha Christie on a bad day." The Old Pequliar's own version of Ken Jennings, Hüsker Don't, returned to the playing field last night and promptly (well, in two hours) won by 7 points over Who'll Stop the Crane? Seattlest is currently in negotiations to produce Win Hüsker Don't's Money -- stay tuned. Oh, and where are the video games? Round 8, people,......

Action! Romance! Deceit! All this excitement on a Sunday night can mean only one of two things: Either our Tivo accidentally began playing an episode of Passions (and the likelihood of that happening—um, again—is slim to none) or our favorite Seattle-based show is revving up for the second season home stretch (two night finale is May 14-15, mark your calendars now, boob tubers). If we were betting types, which we are, we'd put our cash......

First an international caveat on caviar, now a fatwa against foie gras? That's what Rep. Brendan Williams of Olympia says: he's introduced legislation to ban the force-feeding of birds. Never mind that most American foie gras is produced out-of-state, by a French family (of course) in upstate New York, Williams is against it. Williams admits he did eat foie gras once, but tells the Everett Herald he didn't know where it came from. (Right, and......

It may be well into the Grey's Anatomy season--so well in fact that next week is the finale--but hey, it's never too late for a little basic character backstory, right? Right. So this week we find out what we should've known months ago: Izzie's relationship with her mother, what McDreamy's deal is, and how Dr. Alex is one cocky bastard. Oh, wait--that last one we've known since the beginning. Everything else, though, is new. The......