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04/29/2015

Getting in the spirit of Cinco de Mayo? Why not join the party early with our good friends at Sparkle Donkey Tequila for Cuatro de B***o - The Battle of Puebla: French Apology Tour?!

MONDAY, May 4th 5:30 p.m. SHARP!

Sponsored by "The World's Most Historic Tequila™" - Sparkle Donkey - to commemorate the journey of the donkey that bears the tequila's name. Join the pub crawl for drink specials at various watering holes accompanied by a 5-piece mariachi band and noble donkeys leading the route through Ballard.

Start in Seattle’s Ballard Neighborhood Across from NW Market & Barnes Ave NW by the Old Peculiar.

Free sombreros OR French berets to the first 200 participants!

Make sure to sign up! Join on Facebook through cuatrodeburro.com and invite your friends to join us.

Learn the true history of the day BEFORE the Battle of Puebla of 1862. Do your research and come prepared as either a Mexican national or French regular as we reveal the remarkable history behind the day before Cinco de Mayo. Join us as we re-enact the legendary journey of "El B***o Esparkalo" (aka The Sparkle Donkey) and make amends for French aggression... on the ORIGINAL holiday that made Cinco de Mayo possible: Cuatro de B***o*.

*Cuatro de B***o is allegedly the original holiday on which Cinco de Mayo, the popular US holiday is based... but it is much older, and therefore more important.

04/26/2015

Happy to be at the Northwest Food Service Show! Come see us at Booth 331 near the beer garden!

04/21/2015

The Walrus and the Carpenter, The Whale Wins, and Barnacle will drop tips May 4

04/16/2015

Congrats Nick Karl Enoch Davis!

On April 7, Nick Davis and 17 other individuals passed the grueling Advanced Sommelier examination at the Hotel Monaco in Portland. At 27, Davis is one of the youngest wine stewards in the nation to achieve the Advanced Sommelier status, the precursor to taking the Master Sommelier exam.

04/10/2015

Kraken Congee Will Open April 20th!
Exciting times for Shane Robinson and Garrett Doherty! http://bit.ly/1D4GMfZ -read the Eater Seattle article here.

04/07/2015

Elsom Cellars is now open in their new S**o location joining 25 other Seattle Urban Wineries! Sample some wines and food truck bites and head over to 2bar Spirits located in the same parking lot.

03/31/2015

: Westward's Zoi Antonitsas Is a 'Food and Wine' Best New Chef - Seattle Met Magazine. http://bit.ly/1GdeRwy

03/30/2015

Tune in to The Seattle Channel on 3/31 at 7 pm for with host Eric Liu & Christine Hanna of Seattle Good Business Network. http://bit.ly/1BFvbjC

Remarkable people, inspiring conversations -- Tuesdays | 7 p.m.

03/30/2015

: Cheez Whiz Helped Spread Processed Foods. Will It Be Squeezed Out? - NPR

"Will Cheez Whiz survive the merger? We don't need major business news to think about snack foods here at The Salt, but Warren Buffett's announcement this week that he and 3G Capital will merge Kraft and Heinz gave us a great excuse. Turns out, the story behind Cheez Whiz is emblematic of trends in the larger, global food industry..."

http://bit.ly/1xPMQdl

03/27/2015

: Jacobsen Salt Co. Buys Out Bee Local - Portland Monthly Magazine

"Jacobsen Salt’s Ben Jacobsen and Bee Local’s Damian Magista are a special breed of entrepreneur: both believe the food system is flawed, and the answer is sitting in our own backyard. For Jacobsen, it’s salt, hauled and boiled out of coastal Oregon waters. For Magista, it’s honey, extracted from neighborhood hives all over Portland and the Willamette Valley."

http://bit.ly/1EJa5Tk

03/25/2015

: Why the Small BREW Act matters to you - Washington Beer Blog

"This Wednesday, March 25, the Brewers Association, Fremont Brewing Company, and representatives from more than 20 other American craft breweries descend upon Washington, DC in support of the Small BREW Act. As we’ve reported before, the Act would reduce the per-barrel federal excise tax rate paid by breweries from $7 per barrel to $3.50 per barrel for the first 60,000 barrels produced. (See our previous story for more info.)"

http://bit.ly/1GW7WpM