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This Feb. 1, 2016 photo shows prosciutto wrapped salmon with fresh herb sauce in Concord, N.H. The key is to cook the puree in a skillet with a wide bottom, which allows it to heat up in a matter of minutes. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead) NHMM201
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Don’t feel confident cooking fish (or even choosing a fillet)? Here are some tips to change that

Not confident picking out fresh fish, let alone cooking it? Here are some tips for getting your feet wet.

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The Pork and Chicken Wonton with Spicy Sauce, and the Signature Pork Onion Buns, and the Pork Chives Shrimp Dumpling, at Dumpling, the Noodle, in Wallingford. Dumpling, the Noodle – is a restaurant in Wallingford boasts a tasty dumpling our writer found irresistible. Photographed June 25, 2020 214336
Food & Drink

Food critic Tan Vinh ate 1,000 frozen dumplings from Seattle-area restaurants. Here are his top 10.

Bil Thorn CQ points out flowers that will soon turn into fuzzy kiwis at Sky Island Farm near Humptulips, Wash. on the Olympic Peninsula. “Sky Island Farm is one of very few Black-owned farms in the Pacific Northwest,” says Thorn. “Our primary motive is to help people however we can-whether it be serving low-income communities, hospitals or educating- we are always looking for opportunities to serve our community.” 214337
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‘It’s really unbelievable’: Outpouring of support for Black-owned businesses lifts up a Grays Harbor farmer  VIEW

Chef Chet Geri’s “Gracia” Mexican restaurant installed social distancing outdoor dining on Ballard Avenue in Old Ballard Friday, July 10, 2020.
Food & Drink

UPDATING: Seattle-area restaurants offering takeout, delivery and/or dine-in service during the coronavirus pandemic

Seattle Dating Scene

How has the coronavirus pandemic affected dating in Seattle?

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FILE – In this May 8, 2018, filephoto, a Jersey cow feeds in a field on the Francis Thicke organic dairy farm in Fairfield, Iowa. Burger King is announcing its work to help address a core industry challenge: the environmental impact of beef. To help tackle this environmental issue, the Burger King brand partnered with top scientists to develop and test a new diet for cows, which according to initial study results, on average reduces up to 33% of cows’ daily methane emissions. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) NYBZ205 NYBZ205

Burger King wants to combat climate change by helping its cows be a little less gassy

Pacific NW Magazine

Aspiring Baseball Umpire–Christine Wren is an attractive 26-year-old girl who aspires to be a major league baseball umpire someday. She has worked minor League games, and in Los Angeles Sunday she worked behind the plate calling balls and strikes as the dodgers played a practice game with the University of Southern California Trojans. 1975 Christine Wren, baseball’s only woman umpire, has had a slow, difficult time earning professional respect in ‘the Northwest League. She says in her job she is still treated as a woman first, an umpire second. Eugene, Ore. ‚Äî The sixtyish male chauvinist pig sitting in the stands behind home plate, a golf cap pulled over his head, was waiting for her. The moment Christine Wren, pro baseball’s only woman umpire, showed up for the pregame conference, her pony tail dangling from under her blue cap, he started.

It's not a whole new ballgame — yet — but Spokane's Christine Wren went to bat for future generations as a professional umpire in the 1970s

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A passenger goes through a security checkpoint at Sea-Tac International Airport Friday, May 15, 2020. Starting Monday, May 18, the airport will require everyone at the airport to wear masks. 213978 (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Even if you aren't legally obligated to wear a mask on an airplane amid COVID-19, you probably should

Outdoors

A variety of freeze-dried meals and pre-packaged meals and snacks are photographed Monday, March 9, 2020. 213255

Hungry in the backcountry? Here’s our taste-test of several brands of freeze-dried meals

Wellness

This Feb. 1, 2016 photo shows prosciutto wrapped salmon with fresh herb sauce in Concord, N.H. The key is to cook the puree in a skillet with a wide bottom, which allows it to heat up in a matter of minutes. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead) NHMM201

Don’t feel confident cooking fish (or even choosing a fillet)? Here are some tips to change that

Seattle Sketcher

Colorful Country Farms has brightened this Edmonds intersection for 60 years

There’s no sitting on the shoreline at this designated public right of way in Eastlake — just signs and brambles 

At 520 feet above sea level, you can’t find any higher ground in Seattle than Myrtle Reservoir Park 

Take in fresh air and serenity at Richmond Beach Saltwater Park

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Rant & Rave

Rant and Rave: Reader impressed with day care teacher

RAVE to the young day care teacher at Twin Pond Park in Shoreline, who was taking care of a group of six small children aged about 6 or 7. She handed each one a bag and took them around the park to pick up trash. While doing so, she was teaching the children the importance of...

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