Pacific Northwest Pizza

America is made up of proportionately more immigrants than Natives. This has led to a melting pot of cuisines across the country from around the world. With the arrival of Italian immigrants in the late 19th century, pizza came over with them on the boat. The oldest (and acknowledged as the first) American pizzeria was …

Pacific Northwest Cheeseburger

So, our adventure begins with the great American cheeseburger. I started by asking the simple question: what flours are locally available? The historic nature of corn farming in the US gave me the idea of a cornbread based bun. I reached out to a local miller, Fairhaven Flour Mills, to learn more about their products. …

Homemade wild mushroom mayonnaise

I love mayonnaise. I mean it. I love mayonnaise even more than the average Brit (which is a lot more than the average American). I can eat that stuff with a spoon. However, to my shame, I have never made homemade mayo before today. It's not as thick as the products you buy in the …

​Cornbread pretzel buns

Traditionally, corn has been the crop of America. It is widely accepted that Native Americans even cultivated it long before colonization. Although cornbread is a cornerstone of Southern cooking, the fields and fields of gold Northwest corn inspired me to use it as a basis for this dough. For a long time after Hart was …

American food icons

Growing up in England, I loved pub food and the village pub atmosphere. I have a secret dream (or rather not-so-secret anymore) that I would like to open a gastropub. I never enjoyed the heavy drinking culture of my home country, so I would probably want it to be a pub without alcohol. You know, …