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This is a Pacific Coast sustainable seafood cookbook with 75 recipes.

The companion cookbook to the hit show Portlandia by the Emmy-nominated stars and writers Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, with 50 delicious recipes for every food lover, freegan, organic farmer, and food truck diehard. Food plays a very special role in Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s award-winning satire Portlandia. Here are recipes for the dishes that define the show, from cult-raised chicken and Stu’s stews to pickled veggies and...

Before revitalizing the menu at Canlis restaurant, Seattle chef Greg Atkinson learned an appreciation for local ingredients and gratifying meals on lovely San Juan Island, WA. In this reissued book of essays and recipes, Greg describes his appreciation the passage of the seasons, the joys of young family life, and, of course, local food. Atkinson is a gifted and passionate writer, observant of all the senses and emotions when it comes to great meals--whether...

Katya deals in Authenticities and Captures, trading on nostalgia for a past long gone. Her clients are rich and they demand items and experiences with only the finest verifiable provenance. Other people's lives have value, after all. But when her A.I. suddenly stops whispering in her ear she finds herself cut off from the grid and loses communication with the rest of the world. The man who stepped out of the trees while hunting deer cut her off from...

This book offers fascinating reading for anyone intersted in real-life drama set in Washington Included are the Seattle fire of 1889 the 1910 train avalanche on Stevens Pass the 1915 Ravensdale Coal Mine explosion and the 1980 Mount St Helens erupt. It's only human to be fascinated by disasters-and uplified by reports of survival in the face of overwhelming circumstances. Rob and Natalie McNair-Huff take you back to Washington's most catastrophic...