By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD
Food doesn’t have to taste flat when you give up salty foods that are bad for your body. There are five other flavors that your taste buds will enjoy: sweet, hot, bitter, sour and umami (the taste of slow-cooked…MORE
Ballard - Features
Ballard author writes book about Native-American scout and peacemaker
Thu, 10/15/15
A Ballard author has published a new book that reveals the life of an Apache warrior who fought along side Geronimo and Cochise and who later joined the U.S. Army as a scout.
John Sandifer recently self published the book “Chatto’s…MORE
Krista’s Baking Company in the running for Martha Stewart’s American Made Award
Tue, 10/13/15
A Ballard business is being nationally recognized for a different take on an old tradition.
Krista’s Baking Company is a finalist in the 2015 Martha Stewart American Made Audience Choice Awards. The baking company in the running for an…MORE
A Behind-the-Scenes Glimpse of the 2015 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair
Mon, 10/12/15
By Amanda Knox
Weeks in advance Gregg broke out his mischievous, knowing grin. Based on past years, he anticipated first light-hearted procrastination, then a few frantic days of selecting, boxing, loading, unloading, unboxing, displaying……MORE
Ballard's own Miss Bardahl commemorates 50 years at Lake Chelan
Tue, 10/06/15
The Mahogany and Merlot Vintage Boat and Car Event attracts a certain breed of people with a penchant for design, nostalgia and high octane adrenaline. There is an endless array of cars and boats from many eras at the event. Among them is the…MORE
You Are What You Eat: The 5-minute meal
Thu, 10/01/15
By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD
Who wouldn’t love a meal that can be cooked and ready to eat in less than five minutes? Unfortunately, packaged convenience meals from the store are stuffed with sodium and are not very tasty. But you can easily…MORE
At Large in Ballard: Corner of past and future
Wed, 09/30/15
By Peggy Sturdivant
At 10:40 a.m. on the Saturday morning of the last weekend of summer at the corner of Ballard Avenue NW and NW Vernon two walking tours of Ballard almost shared the same corner. One group crossed to the west side of the…MORE
Distance and Open Spaces
Mon, 09/28/15
By Amanda Knox
I’m not ready.
Sure, I’ve trained. I did a pretty good job too, the first four of eight weeks. I ran three days a week, two short days and one long day, each week adding another half mile to the short days and a mile…MORE
'Mayor of Ballard' film centers on local blacksmith
Wed, 09/23/15
The Mayor of Ballard is a dog named Odin. It follows then that the Ambassador of Ballard must be his human owner, David Tuthill.
Tuthill is a blacksmith. He knows the streets and buildings of Ballard like the burns on the backs his hands…MORE
At Large In Ballard: The Farewell Tree Walk
Wed, 09/23/15
By Peggy Sturdivant Diana Gardiner first contacted me on March 13, 2015. She was a newly trained volunteer Tree Ambassador as part of the City of Seattle’s reLeaf program. She had just led her first Tree Walk in Ballard and wondered if I’d be…MORE
