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Bite Nite to support Yes on 522

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This November, Washingtonians will have a chance to vote on I522, an initiative that would require labels for Genetically Engineered Food.  Le Pichet and Cafe Presse hope that you will consider attending this important event to support Yes on 522!  Please click here to purchase tickets.

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This November, Washingtonians will have a chance to vote on I522, an initiative that would require labels for Genetically Engineered Food.  Le Pichet and Cafe Presse hope that you will consider attending this important event to support Yes on 522!  Please click here to purchase tickets.

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Cafe Presse

Join us Monday for a Conversation about I522

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Where:  The back room at Café Presse When:  Monday August 26, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm Please join us tonight, Monday August 26, 2013 for another Conversation about Washington State’s I522, which would require labeling of foods containing genetically engineered ingredients. Don’t know anything about GMOs but would like to?  Have questions about GMOs or I522? 

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Where:  The back room at Café Presse When:  Monday August 26, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm Please join us tonight, Monday August 26, 2013 for another Conversation about Washington State’s I522, which would require labeling of foods containing genetically engineered ingredients. Don’t know anything about GMOs but would like to?  Have questions about GMOs or I522? 

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Restaurants

“La Belle Auberge”, Castegnede, France

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Having grown up reading Elisabeth David, I have always been enchanted with her descriptions of the auberges that populated the countryside of France when she first visited in the 1940’s.  The kind of place that one happens across when driving way off the beaten path, where a lunch of well cooked local fish, meat and

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Having grown up reading Elisabeth David, I have always been enchanted with her descriptions of the auberges that populated the countryside of France when she first visited in the 1940’s.  The kind of place that one happens across when driving way off the beaten path, where a lunch of well cooked local fish, meat and

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Stuff

Big beautiful brioche photo

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This photo of the brioche at Le Pichet comes courtesy of widely-admired food writer Ronald Holden, who writes, among other things,  the self-described “crisp, crunchy words, typed fresh daily” that make up  the  blog Cornichon.org Says Ronald: Had the Oeufs Plats for breakfast the other day; yummy. Big surprise was the brioche, which I’d not

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This photo of the brioche at Le Pichet comes courtesy of widely-admired food writer Ronald Holden, who writes, among other things,  the self-described “crisp, crunchy words, typed fresh daily” that make up  the  blog Cornichon.org Says Ronald: Had the Oeufs Plats for breakfast the other day; yummy. Big surprise was the brioche, which I’d not

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Restaurants

“Chez Mattin”, Ciboure France

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Chez Mattin (pronounced “ma chin”) is a Basque bistrot in the fishing port of Ciboure, which lies across harbor from the larger coastal city of Saint-Jean-de-Luz.  With its menu of traditional Basque specialties and its wood beamed dining room, Chez Mattin feels like a portal into a simpler time in dining.  This is good, honest

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Chez Mattin (pronounced “ma chin”) is a Basque bistrot in the fishing port of Ciboure, which lies across harbor from the larger coastal city of Saint-Jean-de-Luz.  With its menu of traditional Basque specialties and its wood beamed dining room, Chez Mattin feels like a portal into a simpler time in dining.  This is good, honest

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Sauces

Sauce blanche

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This sauce, along with harissa paste, make up the indispensable duo of accompaniments to falafels or kebab in the Turkish sandwich stands and shops of Paris.  If you plan to serve with lamb, adding mint, lemon peel and tarragon makes a tasty variation.  Currently we are serving this sauce with our falafel salad at Cafe

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This sauce, along with harissa paste, make up the indispensable duo of accompaniments to falafels or kebab in the Turkish sandwich stands and shops of Paris.  If you plan to serve with lamb, adding mint, lemon peel and tarragon makes a tasty variation.  Currently we are serving this sauce with our falafel salad at Cafe

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Salads

Tahini and candied lemon vinaigrette

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This is the vinaigrette we use for our falafel salad at Cafe Presse this summer (2013).  Curly endive is tossed with cubes of summer melon and fresh figs, then dressed with this vinaigrette.  The salad is then topped with crispy falafels and served with a side of our Sauce Blanche.

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This is the vinaigrette we use for our falafel salad at Cafe Presse this summer (2013).  Curly endive is tossed with cubes of summer melon and fresh figs, then dressed with this vinaigrette.  The salad is then topped with crispy falafels and served with a side of our Sauce Blanche.

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Cafe Presse

Vin Expresse now 4-6pm Everyday

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If you have been to Cafe Presse between 4 and 6pm on Monday through Thursday lately, you probably know about Vin Expresse.  That’s what we call our French-style Happy Hour, when you can buy bottles of wine to enjoy at Cafe Presse at To-Go prices.  And there is also a menu of small plates to

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If you have been to Cafe Presse between 4 and 6pm on Monday through Thursday lately, you probably know about Vin Expresse.  That’s what we call our French-style Happy Hour, when you can buy bottles of wine to enjoy at Cafe Presse at To-Go prices.  And there is also a menu of small plates to

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Savory Dishes

Falafel

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This recipe, which is based on one given by Claudia Rodin in her classic 1968 “A Book of Middle Eastern Cooking” is always a popular summer dish at Le Pichet and Cafe Presse. Falafal can be served in many ways but my favorite is with a salad of summer vegetables, sauce blanche and a bit

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This recipe, which is based on one given by Claudia Rodin in her classic 1968 “A Book of Middle Eastern Cooking” is always a popular summer dish at Le Pichet and Cafe Presse. Falafal can be served in many ways but my favorite is with a salad of summer vegetables, sauce blanche and a bit

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Stuff

Thanks for asking, Cara.

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A reader of this blog recently emailed to request the recipe for a dish on the Summer 2013 menu at Cafe Presse:  Fallafels et sa salade aux frisée et aux figues, sauce blanche “Crispy chickpea fritters, curly endive, figs, melon, red onion, lemon-tahini vinaigrette and minted yogurt sauce” Thanks for asking, Cara, and I would

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A reader of this blog recently emailed to request the recipe for a dish on the Summer 2013 menu at Cafe Presse:  Fallafels et sa salade aux frisée et aux figues, sauce blanche “Crispy chickpea fritters, curly endive, figs, melon, red onion, lemon-tahini vinaigrette and minted yogurt sauce” Thanks for asking, Cara, and I would

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