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Restaurant Inspections for June 5
Comments are taken directly from latest county inspection reports, which are available at each food establishment and at the Thurston County Environmental Health Office. For questions concerning these reports, contact the health office at 360-867-2667.
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Classic Japanese lamps prove to have timeless qualityThe round, white, paper light shades sold at Ikea for $5 are a familiar item in contemporary interior design. But these inexpensive lanterns are knockoffs of light sculptures created by renowned artist Isamu Noguchi in the early 1950s.
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Doctor your ice cream with wackiness
Sometimes it takes the mind of an 8-year-old boy to come up with a brilliant idea. At least when it comes to ice cream.
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Scratch-made salad dressing allows season’s top flavors
Making a homemade salad dressing is not difficult, and the fresh taste always is worth the small effort required.
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Chateau Ste. Michelle raises the game with latest rieslings
Just 15 years ago, riesling barely was of importance in Washington. Certainly, it was a high-production variety that had its niche, but riesling wasn’t taken seriously by the general public.
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Power up your kitchen dead zones
Smart use of space is a goal in most homes, but the space between the upper cabinets and countertops is precious. You need to plug in the mixer, keep the iPad close to follow that recipe you discovered online, and be able to grab the cumin and chili powder. Never mind square feet — inches matter here.
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Helpful tip: Garbage disposals can’t chop up everything
The garbage disposal is often one of the most-used appliances in the kitchen. It’s also the most abused.
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Antibiotics in livestock raising alarm up food chain
CHICAGO — While Sam Spitz’s friends loaded up on pizza for lunch, the Whitney Young High School student opted for a chicken Caesar salad.
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Could 'Faust' be the last full-length opera for Claudia Simpson-Jones?How much does Claudia Simpson-Jones love opera? A decade ago, she founded Opera Pacifica with her husband, tenor Robert William Corl. “Olympia didn’t have an opera company, and it should have because we have some really great singers,” she said. But being the founder means Simpson-Jones doesn’t just conduct the operas, she produces them, which is a huge endeavor.
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Olympia playwright Nick McCord's 'Good Night, Good Doctor' explores our medicated society
Although his first full-length play is a dramatic thriller, Nick McCord has spent a lot of his life making people laugh as a stand-up comedian. McCord — who is producing, co-directing and acting in the play he wrote, “Good Night, Good Doctor,” this weekend at The Midnight Sun — said, ““One of the reasons I quit stand-up comedy was that I felt limited on stage to expressing just one facet, just the funny haha stuff. ... I didn’t just want to make my audience laugh, I wanted to make them cry. I wanted to make them leave the theater talking about what they saw.”
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