Our best shot of unincorporated Snohomish County It was getting urgent. We knew it was high time to abandon the too-familiar streets of Seattle in pursuit of sanctuary from chaotic, connected city life, or else risk losing our soul and sanity. The original plan for this weekend was to leave the state somehow--head down to Portland, or up to B.C. We informed our checking account of the plan and it began to sqwak in......

Photo of Ezell's by our very own Seattlest Contributor, James Ezell's Famous Chicken, a Seattle institution of deep-fried goodness, has been victim to a number of burglaries in the past six months. The most recent burglary happened this Saturday and was caught on surveillance cameras. The grainy footage shows a man breaking in through a side-window of the restaurant early Saturday morning after Ezell's closed for business. This is third burglary in six months at......

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer's market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs. Seahawks vs. Waffles and Peach Compote Preview Our roommate is quitting his job, and therefore......

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer's market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs. The Waffle House restaurant chain dominates the highways below the Mason Dixon Line, and provides......

Bummed by bumper-to-bumperdom, Seattlest recently jumped off I-5 and onto Route 99 for a journey north. Late for an appointment, we now had limited time for a much-needed snack. We wanted it quick, cheap, and crisp. Yes, we had a crispy craving (not to be confused with a Krispy Kreme). Aurora Avenue was serving up lots of Asian options, which ordinarily might have met much of our criteria. There were also many fast food joints......

We check in on local dominatrix/columnist Mistress Matisse's blog every once in a while -- oh, who are we kidding, we subscribe to her RSS feed. Who doesn't want to hear true tales of sex work? When she documents phone calls, they're usually odd ones she receives. But she recently posted about a call she overheard at Ezell's, wherein a very (but not inexhaustably) patient employee talked a caller through reheating some chicken in their......

Turns out that a low-fat diet doesn't reduce your risk of getting cancer or heart disease. Thank you, thank you, thank you, medical science. Cheer over your spilled skim milk and then make haste to the following former danger zones: Cave Man Kitchens: Melt-in-your-mouth barbeque that's worth the drive to Kent. This is the very barbeque that the Chicago White Sox ate after clinching the 1983 AL West division crown at the Kingdome, and at......