When I was little, I wanted everything about my life to be the same as I saw in Christmas movies. Christmas was certainly portrayed as a day when the world transformed from the chaotic place it actually was to a snow – covered landscape, magically silent and peaceful. Unfortunately for me, I spent my childhood […]
Food & Culture
It’s Not The Water Anymore – Tasting the History of Olympia Beer
I grew up happily in Olympia, Washington. For those of you who haven’t been, it’s a pretty sleepy place – it’s on the water, the downtown is walkable and artsy and just weird enough to qualify it as a true Pacific Northwest holdout. Aside from ‘artsy’ and ‘Evergreen State College,’ Olympia is also affiliated […]
Cider Breakfast in the Orchard – Summer Cider Day
The outskirts of Port Townsend, Washington are not necessarily top of mind when considering traditional European cider-country breakfasts, or traditional cider at all for that matter. Top of mind or not, the folks at Alpenfire Cider, out of Port Townsend, invited cider makers, cider enthusiasts and the cider- curious to their orchard this August, in […]