CHEF JOHN HOWIE'S BLOG

Steaks are a wonderful treat to be able to cook at home, and Steaks To Go by John Howie may be just the thing you need to make your Holiday and New Year celebration meals really special this year! At-home delivery of quality steak products is not a new concept by any stretch but Steaks To Go has completely…

The name Beardslee Public House doesn’t exactly sound `child-friendly’, does it? After all, public house means a tavern or a bar, and sure enough, Beardslee has built its reputation over the years for excellent craft beers and home distilled spirits. But 2018 has been a makeover year for this beverage and fine dining hotspot, and…

Here’s another chance for people who missed out on Wildwood Spirit’s limited release of Dark Door bourbon earlier this year. The bourbon, aromatic with the flavors of toffee, caramel, orange flowers and vanilla, has been marvelously handcrafted with locally-sourced WA corn, and aged in rare, artisanal oak barrels for maximum wood-spirit interaction. “We relied on…

The Christmas meal and New Year’s Eve may be the two big moments for Champagne during the festive season, but it’s such a terrible waste not to drink it up and down the Holidays too, says Erik Leidholm, master sommelier and head distiller at Wildwood Spirits. “I never need an excuse to drink champagne. And…

  This is a shout-out to all Seattle connoisseurs whose tastebuds are adventurous for the finest food and drink that the great Pacific Northwest has to offer! The Annual Taste Of The Seahawks Event is taking place on November 6, 2018, at the Century Link Field. And it’s going to be a smorgasbord of food…

If you live in eastern Bothell, you already know that going out for breakfast or brunch has never been much of an option here. Well, not until this September that is, because Beardslee Public House has opened for breakfast for the first time, finally giving Bothell residents a wonderful reason to wake up hungry! The menu,…

A mysterious gathering of thousands of crows takes place at the UW/Cascadia Campus in Bothell during fall/winter every year, and it is a stunning sight to see. Just as dusk begins to its cast long shadows over the campus grounds and the sky is stained with the orange light of a fading sun, clouds of…

If you’re a resident of the Greater Seattle area, you cannot live this close to the Canadian border and not know what a Poutine is! To describe it graphically, Poutine is a pile of crisp, french fries smothered with cheese curd and gravy — but before you screw up your nose and mentally fail the dish as…

  Romance is the essence of wine. It’s a soul experience, as many connoisseurs will tell you, and even in this modern, tech-driven world of transient sensory pleasures, a great bottle of wine should to be enjoyed mindfully and at leisure, making the terroir of the occasion as special as the terroir (soil) in which…

Forty percent of food in the United States goes to waste every year — and this happens in the world’s most `prosperous’ country, where a silent population of more than 49 million people struggles to put food on the table and one in six Americans goes hungry every day. This shouldn’t be. “Hunger doesn’t have…