Food Lust: a catchy name for a zesty cause: closer connections between farmers and chefs. Farmers and fishers turned out: Willie Green's Organic Farm, Taylor Shellfish, Lopez Island Farm, Skagit River Ranch, Full Circle Farm, Whistling Train Farm,, Fall City Farms Restaurant and catering chefs turned out: Herban Feast Catering, Kaspar's, 35th Street Bistro, Bon Appetit Management Co., Flying Fish. Serious foodies turned out, too, most notably author and farmer Michael Ableman, who read from......

Fall can be foreboding enough, what with its gray mornings, fleeting light, rain-slicked streets, and blown-out umbrellas. When the world outside is fierce, the last thing Seattlest wants to face is a challenge in our own refrigerator, that most promising of places. But for all too many of us, the season seems to present one ominous edible after another, a whole sequence of fearsome vegetables from Brussels sprouts to cabbage, cauliflower, kale, parsnips, rutabagas, and......