Author Archives: Nancy Zaffaro
Blondie’s Plate: (Big) Small Plates, Huge Flavors, Sequim, WA
- Posted on: December 30, 2014
- Posted in: Drink, Food, Restaurants
Blondie’s plate proprietor Kim McDougall was a “self-proclaimed professional diner” before she opened her own restaurant in the town Sequim on the North shore of
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Nicky USA’s Unique Meat Festival
- Posted on: December 26, 2014
- Posted in: Drink, Festivals, Food, Profiles, Restaurants
Warning: This article is not intended for vegetarians. But if you’re a meat lover, this annual food festival, organized by Nicky USA, the Northwest’s leading
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Port Townsend’s Cider Route
- Posted on: December 16, 2014
- Posted in: Destinations, Drink, Profiles, Tours
Touring the Olympic Peninsula and visiting Port Townsend in pursuit of the best of area’s cideries makes a wonderful trip . One this trip, I
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I first enjoyed cured Kentucky ham during a three-week road trip that took me throughout much of Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri. I couldn’t get
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Enjoying Hard Ciders in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula
- Posted on: December 1, 2014
- Posted in: Destinations, Drink, Festivals, Food
Beautiful weather and waterfront location in Port Townsend, Washington, and I’m there to sample and enjoy hard ciders at the Northwest Cider Association’s 4th Annual
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Escape to Favorite Yakima Valley Wineries
- Posted on: October 24, 2014
- Posted in: Destinations, Drink, Tours
Yakima Valley, Washington, offers beautiful scenery, farms and food fins, and more than 75 vineyards. Kestrel Vinters and Milbrandt Vineyards were two of my favorite
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A visit to San Francisco is wonderful, but a highlight of this trip was meeting Jesse Fuente, a limousine driver who has been driving the
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Treveri Cellars: Sparkling Wines From Washington’s Yakima Valley
- Posted on: October 10, 2014
- Posted in: Drink
Treveri Cellars produces delicious method traditionnelle sparkling wines made with Yakima Valley, Washington grapes. This sparkling wine house has a full line of high-quality, excellent
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Bale Breaker Brewing Company: Brewery on a Working Hops Farm
- Posted on: September 5, 2014
- Posted in: Destinations, Drink
Beautiful Yakima Valley, Washington, just two and half hours from Seattle and three from Portland, has been a major fruit growing and agricultural area since
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It’s Sunday morning and instead of drinking coffee on my deck, I’m standing at a pig carcass at Portland’s Culinary Workshop, moving a hacksaw blade
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Festival Offers Opportunity to Enjoy Hard Ciders
- Posted on: July 21, 2014
- Posted in: Destinations, Drink, Festivals, Food
I join more than 60 artisan cider makers from Oregon, Washington, Montana and British Columbia at Northwest Cider’s Associations Portland Cider Fest. Cheers!
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Knoxville’s Fun & Vital Downtown
- Posted on: June 13, 2014
- Posted in: Destinations, Drink, Food, Restaurants, Tours
People walked their dogs every day at all hours in downtown Knoxville, and I love what this tells me about this navigable, livable, and fun