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Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Food and Home&Garden sections. She has worked as a food journalist at Northwest newspapers since 1993, most recently as a food writer, editor and restaurant reviewer in King County before joining The News Tribune in 2004. Her food obsessions at the moment are honey, cheese and oysters.
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Patsy Surh O’Connell, a Gig Harbor resident and board member and founder of the Asia Pacific Cultural Center in Tacoma, will lead a tour of the Boo Han Supermarket in Lakewood tomorrow. O'Connell, pictured here (in a photo by News Tribune photographer Lui Kit Wong), will explain ingredients and answer questions.
Her tour is co-sponsored by the Tacoma Public Library and the Asia Pacific Cultural Center. The event is part of the Tacoma Reads Together program.
I just got off the phone with Elisa Marzano, chef and owner of Marzano Italian Restaurant in Parkland. She told me she's cooking a delicious sounding porcini sausage dish for next Thursday's Dining Out For Life – the fundraising event in which 64 participating Pierce County restaurants give a quarter of the day's food sales to benefit the Pierce County Aids Foundation. More diners means more money raised for the foundation, so be sure to plan some nosh time next Thursday, April 30.
Here's what Marzano said she will make, "Artisan sausage with porcini mushrooms with a lamb ragu. The artisan porcini sausage … it comes from the Piedmont region. I'll serve it over fresh pappardelle pasta." What else is on her menu? "We’re also going to be doing a risotto with locally picked morels." The morels come courtesy of Jeremy Faber, owner of Foraged and Found Edibles. Marzano said she'll come up with a fish special for the night, too.
Marzano is one of a few restaurants that have participated in Dining Out For Life since its inaugural year 15 years ago.
Sarah Rolstad and Blythe Oliver, foreground from left, drinks cocktails at 1022 South, a Hilltop bar that recently opened at the former Monsoon location. Photo by Janet Jensen/The News Tribune.
By Ernest A. Jasmin
The News Tribune
The scene: 1022 South is the thinking person’s watering hole. New Frontier owner Neil Harris opened the hip Hilltop hangout at 1022 S. J St., formerly the Monsoon Room, in late March. General manager Chris Langston gave the cozy lounge a slick makeover, replacing the Monsoon’s tiki accents with new seating, shelving and bar backing, all of them painted black for a reserved aesthetic.
“I wanted more of a masculine feel,” Langston said. “I knew that it was going to have a literary theme, so I wanted it to complement that.”
