Carol Saynisch, of Steilacoom, wrote to us about her daughter's web site. It's an interesting collection of recipes featuring sustainable ingredients.

The website is here. Some thoughts from her mother:

I wanted to share my daughter's culinary Web site, http://www.brooklynfarmhouse.com, with you. She's a graduate of the French Culinary Institute – and even though she creates her site from her Brooklyn, N.Y. kitchen, the products she's using can be found at South Sound natural food and farmers' markets.
Maybe your Web/blog readers would like to see some of her unusual recipes for Thanksgiving side dishes.

Her apple pie with boiled cider sounds pretty tasty to me.

Burkhard Bilger captures the "extreme beer" movement quite exhaustively in a New Yorker article this week (although the article is w-o-r-d-y.... you must read a few pages in to really get it).

Our resident beer geek, John Henrikson, wants to write about extreme beer here in South Sound. We're looking for high octane supremely crafted beer – something that will really knock your palate. (Confused by the term? Click the read more button to see a definition of extreme beer.)

So worshipers of the frosty mug – extreme beer... where? Bottle stores? On tap? Where do you get it?

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