Food

Linguine with lemon pesto, inspired by dreams of the Amalfi Coast

June 1, 2022, 6:04am Food

Are you getting itchy for travel? Me too. Read story

Try making fragrant sachets with herbs other than lavender by tying them in a tulle pouch. This is dried rosemary -- complete with blossoms.

Herbalicious herbs: Grow your own herbs for super-fresh flavor

June 1, 2022, 6:03am Clark County Life

Hardly anything gives me a greater feeling of contentment than snipping fresh herbs from my own garden. I imagine that I’m beating the system whenever I can walk out my back door and grab a sprig of rosemary, a handful of parsley or a dozen leaves of basil without ever… Read story

Swedish tea ring on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (Hillary Levin/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS) (Hillary Levin/St.

Old-fashioned baked goods: 4 recipes that should have never gone out of style

June 1, 2022, 6:01am Food

Far away on a distant sea lies the Island of Old-Fashioned Baked Goods. Read story

Washington wine producers are reevaluating their packaging in light of exporting demands, sustainibility concerns and supply chain issues. Wineries are using lighter bottles, screw tops, or cans instead of bottles, among other updates to packaging.

Corkscrews to cans: Washington wineries adapt to sustainable packaging

May 30, 2022, 6:02am Food

When Co Dinn started his winemaking career more than three decades ago, a high-quality wine in anything other than a 750-milliliter bottle with a wooden cork closure seemed ridiculous. Read story

Columbia Ridge Winery co-owner Angela Sanchez prepares her new tasting room for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend. The winery has 1 acre of pinot noir grapes on-site to make wine with. They use varietals from other places to make other wines.

Columbia Ridge Winery opens tasting room in Ridgefield in time for Memorial Day weekend

May 27, 2022, 6:07am Business

Wine lovers can add another stop to their Clark County tasting tours this summer. Ridgefield-based Columbia Ridge Winery will be opening a new tasting room on Memorial Day weekend. Read story

Ruse Brewing Crust Collective brings a slice of Detroit-style pizza to Vancouver

Ruse Brewing Crust Collective in Vancouver features Detroit-style pizza like the Quattro Cheesey pizza, foreground, and Towering Trees pizza, background, pictured with a glass of Papyrus Iris hazy IPA and antipasto salad.

May 27, 2022, 6:03am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

Detroit pizza hasn’t taken off in Vancouver as it has in Portland. Many locals haven’t discovered the greatness of these rectangular pan pies with cheese-laced crusts that form as cubes of high-fat Wisconsin brick cheese melt down the sides of a hot metal pan. Read story

Creating infused cocktails simple to do

Cocktails containing alcohol and syrup infusions sit amid bottles and mixing accessories in Allison Park, Pa., on July 4, 2021. Alcohol and syrup infusions are growing in popularity and are relatively simple to incorporate into home bars.

May 25, 2022, 6:03am Food

A half-dozen Mason jars line the top shelf of Toni Dash’s pantry. Some are filled with clear liquid tinted almost imperceptibly. Others, like the jar of vodka infused with ripe pears and a generous helping of spices, are bursting with vivid colors that make cocktails as beautiful as they are… Read story