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Despite early afternoon plans to consume diabetes-defying amounts of truffles and other treats at the Seattle Luxury Chocolate Salon (resulting in a complete chocolate coma), Seattlest remained committed to the weekly "Dishin'" review and reported to Boat Street Café for brunch yesterday.

No, this isn't George Orwell's sad tale. Seattlest is a professional on a closed course. Do not attempt.

Rifling through the remains of the house's cookbook library (which was amassed sometime in the 50's when it was used as the high school's home ec facility), we came across a promotional brochure from the Vermont Maple Promotion Board. It gave information about maple trees and sugar houses (it takes 35 gallons of sap to make just one gallon of delicious Vermont maple syrup!) and a few maple-laden recipes, a surprising number of which actually sounded good.

The other day, Seattlest heard that Pyramid Breweries was releasing Broken Rake again, after a several-year absence. We loved this fall seasonal when it still existed—its rich malt, deep amber color and higher-than-average ABV truly satisfied. So these press-release details stirred mixed feelings:

Business recently took us to Bellingham—not exactly a food mecca. We knew that just across the border lay Richmond with its bounty of dim sum, xiao long bao, and other Chinese delights, but we decided to save that for another day. Edging just slightly to the north, we instead found ourselves in Lynden.