I think they [commissioners] really felt they needed to try a Category 5 one-bedroom to see what would happen.

I didn't figure we'd get that many.

I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.

North Forty's market is professional people. The need for lower (cost) one-bedroom and studio apartments here is unbelievable.

If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.

When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.