[TheForge] ABANA meeting

[Darrell]

HEY!!! If you are going to put a link to CRAP like that, at least have the 
decency to label it.

Darrell

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Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] ABANA meeting


>I won't be making it to the Abana conf this time but I was in Seattle not 
>too long ago.
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> If you have the time go to the Five Points Cafe for breakfast (endless 
> hash browns). It's great food and will last you all day. Endless hash 
> browns!! The place has lots of local color and is next door to a coin 
> laundry so you can wash your whites while you eat breakfast and keep an 
> eye on your machine on the security cam in the Cafe.
>
> Be sure to check out the periscope view of the space needle while standing 
> at the urinal. Five Points Cafe is what the world used to be before such 
> things as Starbucks* etc.
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> * Starbucks 
> http://www.thekidfrombrooklyn.com/video_disp.asp?videoid=1049
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> Bob
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> On Jun 22, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Ries Niemi wrote:
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>> This is the northwest- home of the greatest food materials in the world, 
>> in my not so humble opinion.
>> Salmon is the fish to eat around here- its copper river time right now, 
>> but that will end soon, but there are still good Alaskan Kings available- 
>> not cheap, no, but ambrosia nonetheless.
>> I will see if I cant nuudge my friend the fisherman, but if not, a salmon 
>> is still well worth buying, down at the public market.
>>
>> The other thing that is pretty darn good and local is the sausages- Mario 
>> Batali, the big deal New York chef with all the TV shows- well, his dad 
>> has a little place in downtown Seattle called Salumi- and he makes the 
>> best sausages this side of Italy.
>>
>> Both the salmon and the sausages are easy and quick to cook, and will 
>> beat hands down any supermarket meat department type stuff you can find.
>>
>> I will be giving my talk on Friday, at 11 Am, and I want to hang around 
>> for Phillip Baldwins talk at 2pm, but after that, maybe I could take 
>> Phlip down to "The Market", as I will have a car and know the town. We 
>> could hit it at 4 or so in the afternoon, and still have time to cook.
>> In Seattle, "The Market" means the Pike Place market, and it is amazing. 
>> Every food you can imagine, fresh and good.
>> Including the very first Starbucks store, no good any more, of course, 
>> since they went corporate in 82 or so, but there nonetheless.
>>
>> ries
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>> On Jun 22, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Saint Phlip wrote:
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>>> OK, been talking with Paul (our host) and the Sandbox. Anybody have
>>> any objections if I invite the members of the Sandbox Artmetal List as
>>> well? Several of us belong to both Lists, and from the response here,
>>> we should have enough room.
>>>
>>> So far, it looks like Friday's the best time. Any comments?
>>>
>>> And, talking to Paul, he says that steaks are awfully expensive up
>>> there- $5.00 gets you a small, not very good one. That being the case,
>>> he suggested lamb, or fish, as the meat- both are fairly inexpensive.
>>> Or, we can ask a donation- $10-15 per person reasonable?
>>>
>>> Need feedback, folks, so let me know what you think.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Saint Phlip
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>>> The purpose of life is not to arrive at the grave, a beautiful corpse,
>>> pretty and well-preserved, but to slide in sideways, thoroughly used
>>> up, totally worn out, proclaiming, "Wow! What a ride!"
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