FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Elizabeth Williams-Betancourt

BluWater Bistro

Elizabeth@bluwaterbistro.com

206.344.4757

BLUWATER BISTRO HOLDS RUBBER DUCK CHARITY RACE TO BENEFIT

MEMORIAL FOR SLAIN OFFICER TIMOTHY BRENTON

First Prize Winner Gets $1,000 Gift Card

SEATTLE – Sept. 2, 2010 – In honor of slain officer Timothy Brenton, BluWater Bistro hopes to raise $10,000 to donate to Brenton’s memorial fund. From now until Sept. 11, diners can buy $5 rubber ducks at any BluWater Bistro location. At noon on Sept. 11, all the ducks will “compete” in a race on Lake Washington outside BluWater in Leschi.

PRIZES

First place: $1,000 gift card to BluWater Bistro

Second place: a Final Touch certificate for free monthly car detailing for a year

Third place: one family pack of four tickets for Ride the Duck

BluWater also will feature the Ducky Daiquiri (three kinds of rum, orange juice and pineapple juice) for $7, which includes a rubber duck.

Officer Brenton was killed on Oct. 31, 2009, just several blocks away from the Leschi BluWater Bistro. The neighborhood has been trying to raise the $25,000 needed to build a memorial to honor Brenton’s service and life.

BluWater Bistro

www.bluwaterbistro.com

Calling all West Coast food trucks! Mobile Chowdown is going to be bigger and better than ever. We are bringing food trucks from L.A., San Francisco, Portland and places in between to Seattle for Mobile Chowdown 5. Our event site is coming soon! In the meantime, you can take a look at the photo gallery.

Event Details:

Oct. 1

5-10 pm, north lot outside of Qwest Field (home of the Seattle Seahawks and the Sounders FC)

21+ event

Live bands, beer/wine, fun activities

If you want to participate, contact Michi Suzuki at michi@suzukichoumedia.com.

Mobile Chowdown is presented by Seattle Magazine and Suzuki + Chou Communimedia.

Nick Stellino: Cooking with Friends

Only 3 people are allowed behind the scenes per segment taping. Please contact Jason Pagano, JPagano@kcts9.org.
Wednesday
9:30 Maria Hines (who beat Iron Chef Morimoto!)
11:00 Gale Gand
1:00 Michael Galata

Thursday
9:30 Kevin Rathbun
11:00 Brian Poor
1:00 Rick Moonen

Friday
9:30 Wade Wiestling
11:00 Jason Wilson
1:00 Lawrence Chu

(If people want to come at 11:00 and have the time, they can hang out for lunch at 12:15.)

It’s no secret that on St. Paddy’s Day there will be plenty of drinking. But before you raise that first pint or shot, be sure to line your tummy with something yummy.

The best pre-Paddy’s party food has to be high in calories and, frankly, fat.

Take a burrito from Chipotle, for example:

Flour tortilla (290 cal, 9g fat)
+  Rice (130 cal)
+  Beans (120 cal)
+  Corn salsa (80 cal)
+  Meat (190 cal, ~7.5g fat)
+  Guacamole (150 cal, 13g fat)
You tipplin’ without tippin’ over

More nutrition info is here. For your pre-party, order Chipotle’s Burritos by the Box (box of 6 burritos of your choice) at www.chipotle.com, wear green when you pick them up, and get free shots of guac all day St. Paddy’s Day, March 17 (WA & OR).

Dec. 11 is the 59th anniversary of Canlis Restaurant. In celebration, one couple each night from Dec. 9-11 will receive the opportunity to pay 1950s prices for their meal. The couple’s names will be drawn during pre-shift from that evening’s reservations. Mark or Brian Canlis will then present that couple a classic menu from the 1950s when lamb chops cost $3.50, filet mignon cost $4.25 and fresh Dungeness crab legs cost a mere $1.50.

On the evening of Dec. 11, each guest will receive a mini cupcake in honor of the anniversary.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEATTLE, WA (July 31, 2009) — We could blame it on the economy, or or a growing desire to know where our food comes from.  But instead, we’ll blame the birth of Canning Across America (CAA) all on Twitter.

Inspired by Yes, We Can, a community home canning project in the Bay Area, food writer Kim O’Donnel asked out loud on Twitter: What if Seattle got in on the canning act? Better still, what if we led the charge and set a date for a city-wide can-a-thon and encourage other cities around the country to follow suit for  simultaneous coast-to-coast canning ‘stravaganzas?

And so a Can-volution was born.

Canning Across America is a nationwide, ad hoc collective of cooks, gardeners and food lovers committed to the revival of the lost art of  “putting up” food. Our goal is to teach each other the science behind safe food preservation and the joys of community building through food. We believe in celebrating the bounty of local and seasonal produce and taking greater control of our food supply. In a recent reader survey conducted by Allrecipes.com, more than 38 percent of those surveyed said they plan to can, freeze or preserve fresh food this summer; among those with canning plans, 83 percent said: “It’s worth a little extra time to make my own foods to control the ingredients my family eats.”

Online, we’re cooking up blog dispatches from around the country, a Flickr feed of canning photos as well as recipes from cookbook writers, including John Besh and Tessa Kiros. You can find us at http://www.cansacrossamerica.wordpress.com.
And of course, we’ve got a Twitter feed: twitter.com/canvolution

Mark your calendars for the weekend of Aug. 29-30, CAA’s kickoff series of events, which promises to include demos and classes open to the public as well as community-based gatherings.

Join the can-volution!

CONTACT:

Kim O’Donnel
206/588 1188
writingfood@gmail.com

The University District Farmers Market announces the summer roster for the Chef in Residence program. Each Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon, the featured chef will be available to answer cooking questions from shoppers.

University District Farmers Market
NE 50th and University Ave. NE

June
6/27 – Canlis (chef Jason Franey, Mark Canlis and Brian Canlis)

July
7/4 – Cynthia Nims, cookbook author and Kim O’Donnel, food writer and author
7/11 – Robin Leventhal, Cravefood.com
7/18 – Craig Hetherington, TASTE Restaurant
7/25 – Jerry Traunfeld, Poppy

August
8/1 – Kathleen Flinn, author “The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry”
8/8 – Rebekah Denn, food writer
8/22 – Shauna and Danny Ahern (aka Gluten-Free Girl and Gluten-Free Chef)
8/29 – Greg Johnson, ChefandFather.com

September
9/12 – Jordi Viladas, Café Lago
9/26 – Matthew Amster-Burton, author “Hungry Monkey”

October
10/3 – Christina Choi, The Wild Foods Calendar
10/17 – Greg Atkinson, chef and author, West Coast Cooking
10/24 – Greg Johnson, ChefandFather.com
10/31 – Jeff Bergman, chef and food consultant