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Dec

27

2024

Easy Weeknight Dinners: 100 Fast, Flavor-Packed Meals for Busy People Who Still Want Something Good to Eat by Emily Weinstein, New York Times Cooking

I found this at a time in my life where the best de-stressing method I found was to cook. However, I didn’t have hours of time to spend searching for hard-to-find ingredients or creating elaborate meals. Emily Weinstein crafted recipes that are easy and simple to make after a long day at work. The ingredients …

Nov

27

2024

Milk Street Bakes by Christopher Kimball

This gorgeous cookbook is full of tasty recipes, beautiful photos, helpful tips, and thoughtful insight. I have never read a book so clear about when it is necessary to follow precisely, and if it’s not specified, we can assume there’s a little wiggle room. Explore sweet and savory recipes for a wide range of baking …

Nov

19

2024

Holiday Bookfest Saturday Nov. 23 in Seattle

Seattle’s Phinney Neighborhood Association, in partnership with their local bookstore, Phinney Books, will host their 15th annual Holiday Bookfest Saturday November 23, 2024 from 2:00- 4:00 pm at Phinney Neighborhood Association, 443 N 67th St, Seattle, WA 98103. More than two dozen authors will be on hand for the 15th Holiday Bookfest! Books are great …

Jul

3

2024

Beach Books and Neighbor Chez Hosted Chez Panisse Party

What a way to welcome summer! Beach Books of Seaside, OR and their foodie neighbor, Chez, worked together to host a community book and food party on June 27th. Guests reserved seats at the table at Chez and got a discount on the month’s book at Beach Books. From Chez’s Instagram post: Our first Book …

Nov

17

2023

Phinney Books’ Holiday Bookfest
Saturday Nov. 18

Phinney Books welcomes you to the 14th annual Holiday Bookfest featuring dozens of authors signing their books. Along with the author signings, a selection of authors will be reading from their books, and Greenwood’s Bureau of Fearless Ideas tutoring center will create an interactive Bookmakers Space, where new or seasoned writers can put together a …

Jul

28

2023

Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis

We thought we should take a moment to figure out who this “B. Dylan Hollis” fellow is (because his book is our lead-off title this week), and well, it’s an hour later now and we’re still watching YouTube videos. We blame Hollis’s infectious enthusiasm for margarine, wooden spoons, and recipes from the ‘70s. So, yeah, …

Mar

9

2023

Bestseller Spotlight: Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other

Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. We noticed some recurring numbers in titles this week. Dinner in One Melissa Clark …

Feb

3

2023

Hospitality: An Original Essay by 2023
PNBA Book Award Winner
J. Kenji López-Alt

I got into the hospitality industry because I was struck by the power of food to bring people together and its ability to offer an immediate window to the qualities human cultures share with each other. There’s no faster and better way to get to understand a person than to break bread with them. Eventually, …

Jan

5

2023

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Awards

The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2023 Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula K. Le Guin, …

Jan

2

2023

Happy 2023!

Here’s to a healthy, happy new year! What book(s) are you reading at the start of 2023? Do you have any reading resolutions? The image of balloons is from New Year’s Eve this year at New York’s Death & Co bar. Ever since my husband got their first cocktail book, I’ve dreamed of going!

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