Seattle’s Best
Seattle is one of the great food towns on the planet, and visiting in the summertime is something that food lovers should check out for themselves. In our show we covered a lot of familiar territory, but there are a few things to clarify, on screen, and off.
First…yes, the cow placenta was real. It tasted like liver. I have wanted to try this for a decade, but with placenta, freshness counts. This was the first birthing in a clean enough environment at the right farm (thanks George!) and I was thrilled.
Like the colostrum, this is a traditional superfood that is part of our ethnographic history. Cheers! George and Kristin saw me sending pictures in real time of the birth to my family back home and they generously offered to allow my son Noah to name her. He picked Jessie. Seabreeze Farm continues to update us on the calf’s progress and I consider the farm to be one of the best places I have ever visited in the history of the show.
Speaking of which, I leave on Wednesday to shoot our 100th episode. Thanks to all who made it possible. It’s an amazing milestone and one which everyone associated with the making of the program should be very proud.
Our 100th episode will take place in Las Vegas and seeing as how that is the city where all things are possible, I am very excited to finally shoot there after five years of trying.
Second…I am hearing from a lot of folks on social media ask me what’s bizarre about geoduck, a Slayer coffee machine or salmon collar soup? I would remind everyone that our show is about exploring culture through food. If edible oddities are your thing, then just focus on the sight of me peeling a fresh 10-pound slab of cow placenta, still warm, off the field just feet from where we birthed the calf. For those that want to see what the Seattle food scene is all about, look for Marination, Taylor Shellfish, Maneki, Pike Place Market, Seabreeze Farm, Slayer, Intellectual Ventures and Nathan Myhrvold and his whole team, and all the other amazing spots we featured…
Third…Canlis. I have been a broken record for six months, but staying relevant as a restaurant for almost 70 years is amazing in and of itself. For the brothers who run the namesake restaurant, it’s a stroke of managerial genius to hire a chef of Jason Franey’s talent and then work together to produce some of the country’s most food-forward cuisine (while still keeping a classic steak and baked potato for the long-time regulars). As I sat there one night watching the sky turn black over the harbor, I wondered how many restaurants looked as good in day or night time, empty or full? I was one of the first customers of the night and the last to leave and I still remember that meal and the way the room made me feel. What an amazing place.
Fourth…pizza. Say what you want, tell me I am drinking the kool-aid but if you eat the pizza at Serious Pie you will keep going back, it’s that good. Tom Douglas is a masterful restaurateur and tireless promoter of the city. Applewood, a proprietary dough recipe, and a 600-degree oven is something more pizza chef should consider.
Fifth…to all the insanely smoking-hot tattooed twenty-something babes in motorcycle boots and vintage sleeveless dresses who flirted with me the whole week I was running around your city, I say thank you. You made me feel like a 16-year-old boy again.
Sixth…the local cherry and berry season was in peak of season when we were there. Holy crap. End of story.
Thanks Seattle, see you soon.
Andrew,
LOVE you and your show. But tell me. Do you ever worry about parasites from all the food you've eaten? there is a show about that on AnimalPlanet, and have you ever gotten any?
As a native of Washington state (grew up in E. WA then spent 17 years in the Seattle area) who now lives in the Twin Cities, I am feeling connected to you today, Andrew!
I miss my home town and thank you for the great reminder of all the great foodstuffs I'm missing while I reside in the mid-west. I'm currently in culinary school – in the middle of my American Regional class this quarter – and am very much looking forward to the Pacific NW region, but somehow feel it will not be quite the same as being back home due to the lack of fresh fish. We will, however, have Tillamook cheese (if I have to go buy it from Costco myself!).
adore the show have been following you for many yrs , this and that i must say u get better with age like fine wine kudos to you and your staff and most of all to your family who allows the world to share their treasure
Our fair Portland is just a short and most welcome jaunt down I-5, and the food is better. Yes, better!
Hey Andrew! Love your show since the start! I can't wait to see this episode!! I work on a Slayer machine every day and I hope you enjoyed meeting Jason and tasting your first Slayer Espresso shot! It's certainly the best way to taste coffee in Seattle, in my humble opinion anyway =) Thanks for coming this way and all the great things you said about my home, I hope someday you feel compelled to visit again!
Just watching the show about Twin Cities. I am from MN and love going home.
However, your show about the REDNECK who catches snapping turtles was horrible and certainly can not come any place close to the word "humane" treatment of animals. Turtles are not endagered, I get that, but his treatment of these animals seems more like something he does for a sport. Really, here we are with the grandkids watching a show about some of the silliness in cooking and this guy cuts off the neck and head, your guys film it still dying and then you blow it up with an air hose???
Wow, makes you look like the same dumbass this REDNECK TURTLE EATING FOOL you were filming!
You just dropped my entire opinion of you, and your show.UGH….that is the best you can come with??
This is another reason this world is going to hell in a handbasket….we treat all of Mother Natures gifts like discarded trash. No respect at all!
Hey andrew, whats up im a big fan of your show even my family loves it. Im like you adventure eater but im with limitation due to religious belief but other then that i will taste everything i see, like what you say if it looks good eat it right. I would like to travel with you some times if destiny lets it and taste food all over the world. If destiny could not permit it just give me a shout out on one of your episode that your eating intistine coz thats my favorite hehehe just shout out HM2 Remos from us naval hospital yokosuka japan if you could. Thanks
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Now you need to visit the other side of Washington. There is nothing more interesting than Lentil ice cream and tinned cheddar from Pullman.
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Andrew DerbyTim here from Port Angeles, Wa, watched the feb 12 show about Seattle, and want to point out an error. It is Pike Place Market, NOT Pike's Place Market! I would think one would do diligent research when doing a show, eh? Serbytim Morgan
YES!!! It is Pike Place Market NOT Pike's Place Market! Just like it is not Central's Park or the Golden's Gate Bridge! Pike place is the street that the market is on!
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I have can't believe your show, blowing up turtles on national TV Feb 19 2013. How cruel and inhumane can you be. I am done with your show, You are sick! Don't come to Texas and perform your sick tricks here. The Travel Channel is not for family viewing and the have no morals. Andrew you are awful.