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How does this sound?  Chilled Carrot & Coriander soup with coconut creme fraiche.  It was my recipe, brought back from being inspired by trying this soup in Newcastle a few weeks ago.  I love watching something I had faraway on the menu of the GoNOMAD Cafe. But like when Richard […]

Brian Carney is the editorial page editor of my favorite newspaper, and he writes today about Fan and Fred, described as ‘money-losing zombie financial companies in the bosom of the federal government. ”  Perfect! He describes the two bloated home loan agencies with more than $5 trillion in liabilities as […]

Last night I watched one of my favorite travel shows, the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, who spent time in Ecuador and later, travels to Kerala, India.  The thing about this guy is that he is so real.  There is none of the scripted corniness that can seep into some of these […]

How many people sleep in your bed?  I can’t think of a topic that provides more diverse answers. Bruce Feiler wrote a column today in the NY Times titled ‘Bedtime Stories’ that provided some answers . I’ve been accused of snoring like a freight train, even  by people in adjacent […]

I have always been fascinated with RFID tags, which were in the news today as I read every word of the WSJ. Hell, I was on a plane and there was nothing else to read, then I had a three-hour delay. 

Wal-Mart has big plans to put the tags on […]

Yogi Naresh rents ATVs and takes clients up into the Idaho Panhandle National Forest to enjoy them. We got outfitted with helmets and gloves and with a few words of training, we were zooming off on 500 cc Polaris 4-wheelers.  As a resident of the world’s bluest blue state, Massachusetts, […]

“There’s no wiggle in fly fishing!” said Stann Grater, 61, a fishing and casting instructor for Orvis who teaches college level courses in fishing at Gonzaga. He took us out for some casts on the Spokane River north of the city. While he told me not to wiggle, he was […]

Spokane is Washington’s second largest city, but has the feel of a big town. One thing that’s striking about the downtown are the buildings.  They stopped me in my tracks.  I love the Parkade Parking garage, with a Guggenheim-esque spiral ramp and fancy 1960s style tips on the columns of […]

Kayaking down the Little Spokane River. A rare level of bliss. Floating so freely, with such clean water and only the chatter of the birds to be heard. A lovely river here in Eastern Washington, this place is crazy for kayaking. Everyone owns the boats, or has a story about […]

Denny Reed is an airtrekker. He takes people out in his ultra light aircraft and hops from one scenic place to another, sometimes swooping down as low as six feet from the ground. We flew with him tonight from atop the 2700 foot high Prosser Butte.  All around us are […]

To anyone who has taken a press trip, you know that moment when your flight is bearing down on you, and you’re making your last minute checks and worrying about what you might have forgotten. This morning I”ll fly to Spokane to begin what is being billed as a Mancation. […]

As Jim Olsen announced from up on stage around 6:45 tonight, the twenty-fourth Green River Festival is in the books. It was a splendid assortment of music, and the hot sun and familiar faces made it all pretty darn all right. But if I were on the committee organizing the […]