Posts Tagged Seattle Times

Suspense novelist buys seat on Chicago financial exchange (Seattle Times)

Suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark created some mystery of her own by purchasing a seat on the Chicago Board Options Exchange for $2.95 million.

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Bellingham woman is a warrior against pesticides, an advocate for nature (Seattle Times)

Whether it's for the now almost common sight of a bald eagle in Seattle or a Web site advocating planting native species in the backyard, Northwesterners are beholding to Lorrie Otto, now a 90-year-old Bellingham woman, whose name is no longer familiar in environmental circles, but who was at the heart of the fight against DDT.

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Recipe: Monday Meatballs from A16 (Seattle Times)

If you want meatballs for dinner at the A16 restaurant in San Francisco Monday is the only night you can get them despite a big demand the other nights of the week.

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A thermometer tells what’s happening inside your refrigerator (Seattle Times)

A refrigerator thermometer will be one of the best purchases you every make. It will tell you exactly what the temperature in your refrigerator is and if it maintains a temperature under 40 degrees which is important to safe food storage.

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Growing your own veggies fills the larder and the soul (Seattle Times)

Lorene Edwards Forkner of West Seattle has started turning over her flower garden to vegetables, growing enough food to eat fresh and to freeze and can for fall and winter. She started with easy crops like chard and beans, but also planted blueberries, which provide not only fruit but attractive shrubbery for interest in the garden.

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