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What am I going to do with these plums?

Garlic Gulch Legacy by Mikala Woodward, Excerpted from Rainier Valley Food Stories Cookbook Many Italian families – like many other...

This Old Kitchen: Red Velvet Cake

When our Food Stories cookbook was being written we compiled not just recipes but recorded oral histories from people and these oral...

Thanksgiving Turkeys at Bob's Quality Meats

by Mikala Woodward, Excerpted from Rainier Valley Food Stories Cookbook Butchering seems to run in families. Jim Ackley, owner of Bob’s...

Coffee Culture

Excerpts from Rainier Valley Food Stories Cookbook Coffee History Coffee is believed to originate in Ethiopia. One story goes that Kaldi...

Juneteenth Celebrations

Juneteenth celebrates the ending of slavery in the United States. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1,...

Ilda Jackson's Sweet Potato Pie

“He kept saying, ‘I want a sweet potato pie like my mother made.’” by Mikala Woodward, Excerpted from Rainier Valley Food Stories...

The Lost World of Neighborhood Groceries

Whenever young Bernice Boley had a little money, she’d head over to Vincent’s grocery for some penny candy: this was the 1930s, and a...

Rainier Valley Food Stories Cookbook

A culinary history of the Rainier Valley going back 100 years with recipes and stories from our multicultural community. This project...