You’ve mastered the art of meal planning. You’ve perfected sourdough bread and creatively used up your supplies of dried beans. You’ve made chocolate chip cookies and mac and cheese and meatloaf.
Minado Buffet opens today.
From 2010 to 2016, in Central Washington, cases of anencephaly — in which babies are born missing part of the brain and skull — were detected at a rate far higher than the national average. Folic acid can help prevent the devastating birth defect.
Memories of summer are fading as winter begins to take hold in the Yakima Valley. Thousands of acres of cherry trees are dropping their leaves, and their branches sway as chill winds scour the valley. An occasional hard, shriveled fruit is all that’s left of the luxuriant harvest of June and…
The latest batch of inspection results covers inspections performed in July 2018. We're including restaurants that get a perfect score - no issues found - and those facilities with failing grades or those where inspectors still need to confirm work has been done to bring a facility up to sta…
If you’ve been a fan of Yakima-area wine offerings, you may have heard the name Justin Neufeld.
It all started with acres of cider apples when Tieton Cider Works released its first cider in 2008. But just two years later, the cidery started releasing other fruit-forward options, combinin…
I stepped outside to holler at my kids for dinner the other night and realized quite suddenly (and maybe a little dramatically) that the cherry trees along the road have tiny little buds on th…
It’s springtime for Yakima’s arts and entertainment scene. Events are back. Enough that it’s probably time for us here at SCENE to start writing about them again. We used to do this every week…
I did not tell the local nutrition expert and health coach that, a couple of hours before I called her, I had cooked a piece of bacon and then used the rendered fat to re-fry some leftover che…
If you’ve spent even a few minutes scrolling some form of social media in the past few months, you’ve probably seen a recipe for baked feta cheese. There seems to be a million and one versions…
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YAKIMA, Wash. -- Vendors interested in joining the first Yakima Taco Fest have until June 1 to submit applications and sponsorship requests.
Almost like clockwork, every spring, I forget we ever had winter and decide with unrelenting enthusiasm that the only things I want to eat are fresh vegetables and berries, preferably grown in my own garden.
We have been so darn lucky to see many innovative new restaurants opening up in Yakima of late. But, in fact, we have been pretty lucky all along to have a few really stellar eateries here that have a history of serving the community. Gasperetti’s has been a Yakima restaurant institution for…
Since our last update - four failed inspections to report, and 10 passes with perfect scores.
YAKIMA, Wash. -- On Monday night, Felipe Hernandez and his family walked down the red carpet at the James Beard Foundation Awards gala in Chicago.
UNION GAP, Wash. - An national food awards gathering in Chicago that will honor one of our area's culinary treasures is now live on Twitter.
One of my favorite quotes from my favorite cookbook, “Bread and Wine,” is: “Life at the table is life at its best.” When I think about my life, my friends and family, and my community — so much of it revolves around the table. It might be the kitchen table or an outdoor table on the back pat…
Spring is finally here and signs of life are sprouting on the trees and up from the ground, and although we get to enjoy lots of sunshine here in the Yakima Valley, we do get our share of rainy and gray days. It’s on those days that we want a little warmth and a cheery place to enjoy a meal.…
Carousel French Cuisine at 25 N. Front St. has been a date destination for years, ever since Gerard Thiry opened it in 2003. Depending on how new your relationship is, though, dinner by candlelight might be too heavy a scene. So we’re suggesting a daytime date there — Sunday brunch.
The demand for heirloom varieties, especially in edible plants, has increased dramatically in recent years. There are many reasons that heirlooms may be better suited to home gardens than hybrids. One of the biggest is that heirlooms are open-pollinated, so you can save seeds year after year.
YAKIMA, Wash. -- Shattered expectations lead one of two ways.
YAKIMA, Wash. -- They run our favorite restaurants, prepare and serve the food and drinks we love and know what coffee we want before we say a single word.
If Special Agent Dale Cooper had planned a Yakima stop on the way to his investigation in Twin Peaks, I’d like to think he’d have eaten at Mel’s Diner.
YAKIMA, Wash. -- I never thought I’d be old enough to notice that a dollar doesn’t go as far as it did when I was a kid.
They run our favorite restaurants, prepare and serve the food and drinks we love and know what coffee we want before we say a single word.
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, along with 12 other U.S. airports and the border crossings in El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, have been designated to screen passengers arriving from China for the Wuhan coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Tuesday. …