English Muffins Worth Traveling For

English Muffins Worth Traveling For

For years, our deli manager and buyer, Elyse Hoang, drove thirty-five minutes to Phinney Ridge for English muffins. Not for loaves or pastries — for English muffins, the thing most of us grab at the supermarket without thinking. That’s the first thing to know about Ben’s Bread: they make an English muffin worth the drive. […]

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From La Mancha to Pike Place: A Cheesemonger’s Education

From La Mancha to Pike Place: A Cheesemonger’s Education

On a cool morning in early February, Tyler Wilbourne changed into sterile whites in a small creamery outside the town of Herencia, in the heart of La Mancha. Hundreds of wheels of Manchego sat aging in rooms nearby. Four cheesemakers were already at work. Within minutes, he would be too, flipping wheels by hand, packing curds […]

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Girl Meets Dirt: Orcas Islands Preserves

Girl Meets Dirt: Orcas Islands Preserves

Before irrigation turned Eastern Washington into the country’s orchard, the San Juan Islands shipped fruit across the West. The industry vanished, but the trees kept going. Plum, pear, quince, and apple trees planted more than a century ago still bud and bloom and drop fruit into Orcas Island valleys every year.  Audra Lawlor cooks that […]

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Suhey Peppers: One of Nate’s Faves

Suhey Peppers: One of Nate’s Faves

Ginger Suhey had three sons playing Penn State football in the 1970s. One of them, Matt, went on to the Chicago Bears. On game days she’d have thirty fans at the house, and she worked out a pepper recipe to put on cheese and crackers or anything off the grill. They became a thing in the PA and PSU […]

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The Market at Your Door — $10 Same Day Delivery

The Market at Your Door — $10 Same Day Delivery

DeLaurenti has been at Pike Place Market since 1946, built on the same thing the whole time: good products and people who know them. If you’ve been in, you know what we carry and how we carry it. If you haven’t been in for a while, or if you keep meaning to come down but […]

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Holiday Wines

Holiday Wines

Wondering which wines to enjoy this holiday season? Our wine crew can help! Below is starter list of three whites, reds, and sparkling wines. But that’s not all… Shop our entire wine department by the bottle, or by place of origin, color, flavor profile & price. No need to know what you are looking for, and no guessing. You say […]

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