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" In my 'Big Dinners' cookbook, I recreated my mother's recipe for crab dip. The creamy dressing for this dip, made with mayonnaise, tomato paste, a touch of honey, sliced chives, lemon juice and zest, horseradish and Tabasco, is reminiscent of Thousand Island dressing. "

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" I'm a compassionate person, so if a product is 15 percent more than what I typically pay, and I see the purpose, I'll foster that kind of sustainability for the farmers/fishers. "

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" I love being able to help promote Seattle to travelers worldwide. "

" There's a restaurant in Manhattan called Balthazar, and next to it is Balthazar Bakery. It's tiny, and it's very charming to have that little retail outlet to sell the house desserts and breads. "

" I'm just sick of food going in the garbage. "

" If deep-frying catfish, try a dredge of seasoned flour and cornmeal and add some bacon fat to the oil. "

" Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested. "

" I eat out at least once every day. "

" Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with crab cracker, cocktail fork and a plastic bib for protection? "

" The one thing I could do with my eyes closed is my Grandma's schnecken. "

" Money is like manure: if you don't spread it around, nothing grows. "

" Farm to table is a personal choice. "

" Tender and sweet, Manila clams partner well with a wide variety of foods - white wine, sake, beer, butter, leeks, fresh herbs, roasted peppers, olives, and wild mushrooms, to name a few. "

" Utrip makes it easy for travelers to experience the destination highlights that most interest them, be it food, art or history. Just like a culinary experience, every palate is different, and Utrip is all about personalizing travel for their users. "

" Most of America doesn't pay dishwashers $10. "

" Customers are more friendly when they've had a meal. "

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" I was $4,000 short on my first payroll. "

" The state of Washington calls tips 'wages.' "

" Most of the catfish you find at the fish counter has been farmed. Though I usually prefer to buy and eat wild fish, farmed catfish taste cleaner, without the muddy taste of their wild relatives. "

" For a group of friends or a family dinner, fish tacos are popular and fun to make. "

" I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with. "

" I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon. "

" Pork is my friend. "

" Cooking with your kids is a remarkable exercise to let them in on the purchasing part of the process - kids love to shop, and its great to take them to these ethnic places where people don't always speak the language. "

" I would say a full-time waiter in a high-price house could easily make $75,000, $80,000 a year. "

" It's important that your shucked oyster is clean and pristine. "

" The best meal I was served was ribollita, an Italian bread soup at the Castello di Ama winery in Tuscany. I usually hate ribollita, and the people I was traveling with thought I was crazy for ordering it. "

" Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff. "

" Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig. "

" While it's typical to find steamed clam recipes which include a bit of bacon or sausage, you might not think of adding shredded ham hock, but it's another way to pair the lusty, smoky flavor of animal fat with the briny ocean flavor of shellfish. "

" Some versions of crab cakes are mostly crabmeat lightly bound with egg, but I'm a firm believer that a crab cake should contain bread crumbs. "