From the Archives: Fish Wednesday: Fish are friends, not food edition

If you’ve not seen Finding Nemo, you don’t know the hilarious scene where the sharks get together for something akin to Seafood Eaters Anonymous. “I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food,” they state, with great earnestness. It all comes apart because, duh, they’re sharks, hello.

Fast forward to Fish Wednesday. Readers of this blog will know that Fish Wednesday happens pretty regularly around here, if not quite weekly. About a month ago, I started wondering where my fish was coming from. I get my veggies from a CSA, why was I getting my fish from the Safeway? Was there a better way to buy fish and did it matter where it came from?

Neon Fish


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National Soup Swap Day: Success!

Oh, sure a freezer full of soup is a good thing, a great thing even. But better still, the solidarity of our fellow soup makers across the nation who greeted our calls with “Hellooooooooooo Seattle!” We loved hearing about your soup, Genola, because it was so different than ours. Schenectady, we found your enthusiasm charming …


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Fish Wednesday, Vancouver Edition

My ex-downstairs neighbor very kindly offered us the use of his West End studio apartment so we could export Fish Wednesday to the north. We left the slushy streets of Seattle and pointed the Tercel towards Canada. After a brief stop at our favorite patchouli scented bagel joint in Bellingham, we crossed the border with …


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Tai Lin Vietnamese Food

Tai Lin is a brightly lit little place at the intersection of 14th, Rainier, and Jackson. It’s brand new – they’ve been open for two weeks. There are twinkle lights and mirrors and two TVs battling for your attention – one showed a Vietnamese stage production with a singing nun and the other showed a …


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LA Cafe, HK Style

The Pacific Rim center is an odd mixed use complex that feels a bit like a smalltown airport. It’s home to New Kowloon, a smashing place for dim sum, a manicure salon, a Vietnamese restaurant, a dental clinic…it’s also home to the recently opened LA Cafe. We stumbled in to LA Cafe on accident when …


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Fish Wednesday: Messy Kitchen Edition

It seems like all we do around here lately is make a mess in the kitchen and clean it up again. While husband is hell bent on reproducing the Christmas cookies of his youth, I have Fish Wednesday to tackle, and we’re getting ready for a party, too. Bake, wash. Chop, wash. Stew, wash. Mix, …


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