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Book ‘What to Drink With What You Eat’ a handy guide

Title: “What To Drink With What You Eat.” Quick Look: This comprehensive guide, a companion to all cookbooks, dishes expert advice on ideal food and beverage pairings – from aquavit to zinfandel, artichokes to zucchini blossoms. Based on suggestions from chefs and sommeliers at dozens of America’s best restaurants, it’s easy to read, educational and incredibly useful.
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Chiefs Red matches hockey, wine

Hockey and red wine might make the perfect holiday pairing for fans of the Spokane Chiefs and Arbor Crest Wine Cellars. Chiefs Red, a cabernet sauvignon, is a first-time collaboration of the Spokane winery and hockey team. A portion of the sales from each bottle goes to Chiefs Care, which funds continuing education for players as well as public appearances and the Chiefs’ charitable donations.

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Mother-daughter-produced Cowgirl Caramels make holiday debut

Heat things up this winter with a little habanero in your Christmas caramels. Cowgirl Caramels, made by Alyson Paredes and her daughter Demi Paredes, are now for sale at the temporary To Market kiosk in River Park Square in downtown Spokane. The holiday kiosk opened Nov. 1 and keeps mall hours through Dec. 31.
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Flavorful throwback

Volstead Act doesn’t have the old-school ambiance of a bygone era. The new downtown Spokane bar, named for the law that launched Prohibition, has a look that is semi-industrial and elegant, but – by design – not pretentious.
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Bourbon libations fit for the bird

A little for the turkey, a little for you. When you’re glazing your boozy bird, you might need a little something to wet your whistle – or prepare you for the onslaught of in-laws and other Thanksgiving Day diners.
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Fresh Sheet: Total Wine to open in Spokane Valley

A second Spokane-area Total Wine & More store is scheduled to open Thursday near the Spokane Valley Mall. Special events, including tastings, take place through Sunday for the grand opening. A ribbon-cutting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday.
A&E >  Food

Sides, starters make Thanksgiving meal memorable

The turkey typically gets all the attention – maybe even more so when it’s basted with a maple, bourbon and brown sugar glaze. But the turkey alone isn’t enough to complete a Thanksgiving table.
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Cookbook review: ‘Cook’s Illustrated Baking Book’

Quick Look: With 450 “foolproof” recipes, this is a must-have bible for bakers. Its 15 comprehensive chapters cover everything from cookies, quick breads and scones to cakes, crêpes, croissants and custards. The extensive collection of well-tested recipes and handsome, hand-drawn, how-to illustrations combine to form a trustworthy and thorough reference that aims to demystify the art and science of baking. What’s Inside: Successful baking, according to the cookbook’s promotional materials, relies not only on ingredients but “proportion, mixing method and temperature – all of which need to work in harmony to produce a perfect tall and fluffy biscuit, a handsome loaf of fine-crumbed pound cake, or a plate of thick and chewy chocolate chip cookies.” This authoritative, user-friendly, encyclopedia-like guide shows you how.
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Family sharing favorite dip with the rest of the Northwest

Mary Lou Higgins Henderson made pot roast pretty much every Sunday. And pretty much every Sunday, her main dish was overdone. Similarly, her hamburger patties were always dried out, and the buns were always burned. Her six children disliked her lima bean casserole so much that they used to cough it into their napkins and stuff the evidence down the legs of their Formica table.
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Fresh Sheet: Experience sushi at INCA

James Wolters, executive chef of Manito Country Club, is teaching a how-to sushi class at INCA After Dark. He’ll discuss choosing ingredients, rice preparation and more from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday.
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Ravioli a perfect match for butternut squash

The butternut squash had been sitting on my kitchen counter for a couple of weeks. I was beginning to feel like it was watching me, pleading with me to be used, made into something savory and sweet, something that tasted like autumn, warmth and cinnamon.
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Fresh Sheet: Aki Matsuri arrives Sunday

The Spokane Buddhist Temple is holding its 23rd annual Aki Matsuri Fall Festival on Sunday. Tours of the temple and lunch will be available from noon to 4 p.m. Diners can eat in or take out.
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Meringue makes sweet treats for Halloween

It’s simple – just egg whites and sugar. But the result is crisp and airy, a lightly sweetened, fat-free foam that can be molded into spooky shapes just in time for Halloween.
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Old-school tricks for up-to-date Halloween

Between the plastic pumpkins, faux cemetery signs, and bits of bite-sized, factory-processed candy, it’s no surprise Halloween can seem highly commercialized, overly complicated and somewhat stressful. A couple of old-school – and simple – recipes for homemade sweets might help slow down the orange-and-black cyclone that can take over Oct. 31.
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Quick treats, clever drinks for Halloween

We’re not quite done with Halloween yet. Here’s a round-up of a few more festive recipes, including a couple of creepy – yet classic – cocktails and two last-minute, no-bake options.
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‘Century of Restaurants’ highlights old favorites

Quick Look: In an industry in which 70 percent fail within 10 years, Rick Browne explores the stalwarts, 100 restaurants, inns, taverns and public houses that have survived a century or longer. He offers a culinary history through America’s oldest dining rooms and their dishes, including one of Coeur d’Alene’s favorite burger joints. What’s inside: Browne, who traveled more than 46,000 miles while researching the book, includes restaurants in 44 states and the District of Columbia. The oldest – White Horse Tavern in Newport, R.I. – opened in 1673; the youngest – Pleasant Point Inn, in Lovell, Maine – started in 1911. The part-recipe, part-history book features black-and-white vintage photographs juxtaposed with colorful, modern-day images of entrées. It also discusses the origins of each establishment – from famous guests and chefs to signatures dishes – and reminds readers how much older the East Coast is compared to the West Coast. Browne offers short reviews of menu items he sampled – from the $2.50 Smoked Pork Sandwich at Jones’ B-B-Q Diner, established in 1910 in Marianna, Ark., to the $99 Orca Platter at Old Ebbit Grill, established in 1856 in Washington, D.C. With eight seats, Jones’ B-B-Q Diner is the smallest eatery included in the cook. The largest – Columbia, established in 1905 in Tampa, Fla. – holds 1,700.
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Lounge Nights pay homage to Linnie’s past

When The Shack opened 80-some years ago, it was a simple sidewalk stand. But the hamburger joint evolved, adding The Shanty cocktail lounge in 1949, remodeling in 1962 and becoming a popular diner-by-day and hot-spot-by-night.
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No-Li’s new chef puts originality on the plate

These days, the fries at No-Li come with orange carrot ketchup instead of the traditional tomato variety, and the signature American Kobe beef burger is topped with a harissa pepper sauce. The loaded tri-tip chili comes with chipotle sour cream, red onion brûlé, Tillamook smoked cheddar and scallions on top of everything else: black beans, tomato, jalapeño, Anaheim peppers and an Amber Ale beer biscuit.
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No-Li’s new chef puts originality on the plate

These days, the fries at No-Li come with orange carrot ketchup instead of the traditional tomato variety, and the signature American Kobe beef burger is topped with a harissa pepper sauce. The loaded tri-tip chili comes with chipotle sour cream, red onion brûlé, Tillamook smoked cheddar and scallions on top of everything else: black beans, tomato, jalapeño, Anaheim peppers and an Amber Ale beer biscuit.
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Ivar’s cookbook overflows with favorite recipes

The late Ivar Haglund began selling clam chowder from Seattle’s Pier 54 in 1938. Today, most Ivar’s locations are in Western Washington. Spokane Valley is one of two cites east of the Cascade Mountains – the other is Kennewick – to have an Ivar’s Seafood Bar. To mark the regional chain’s 75 years, the Spokane Valley Mall location is offering $7.50 dining deals through Nov. 17 on Super Clams and Cole Slaw, three-piece Sole and Chips with Coleslaw, and Shrimp Caesar Salad and a drink.