The Alexis Hotel in downtown Seattle is the first Kimpton Hotel I’ve stayed in, but, hopefully, it won’t be my last. The collection – I won’t say chain – claims to have coined the term “boutique hotel” back in the 1980s. Their first hotel was in San Francisco. Now...
Teresa Bergen, RFT’s Vegan/Vegetarian Editor, recently traveled to Door County, Wisconsin, where she fell in love with the state’s tart cherries. (Read Teresa’s story “Door County, WI: Cherries Galore.”) She also brought back plenty of...
My neighborhood in SE Portland, Oregon, is like a big outdoor cat lounge. Walk down the street any halfway sunny day and you’ll see a cat show of long and short haired, tabbies and gingers, Siamese to Manx. If you’re lucky, a few will even come forward to rub against...
I packed about 40 nut and grain bars before leaving for Iceland. The northern country has more of a reputation for fish, lamb and fermented shark than for vegetarian food. But my worries proved fruitless. Everyone I met in southern Iceland more or less understood the...
I remember when most vegetarian restaurants seemed to be run by hippies and/or affiliated with cults. I’ve eaten many a good meal in such establishments, but it’s nice that excellent mainstream veg restaurants now thrive in some of our bigger cities. The Santa...
