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PLUS: Food Matters, Eat 101, The Mix and Sipping Out
Posted: Jul 03, 2008 by Volcano Staff

Puyallup Fair food contests

There arrrre three kinds of people in the world: dem who steal food, dem who enjoy food, and dem who cook it. Me walks the first camp plank: Me the kind of pirate who can walk in the same restaurant 10 times and orderrr the same ting. In the last camp ye find the adventurous lot — "foodies" who regard cookin’ the same way me mates explore the seas. Dem charge fearlessly into the great unknown and hope to escape with riches.

This last lot will no doubt enterrr the Puyalllup Fair’s food contests: Great American Spam Championship, C&H Sugar Parent-Child Bar Cookie Contest, Puyallup Fair Berry Pie Contest, scone contest, jam and jelly contest, and many more. Fer rules and regulations, ring up 253.841.5017 weekdays. — Whinin' Butch Teach

Food Matters

Arnold’s Country Inn Restaurant in Yelm is now in Davy Jones’ Locker.

Eat 101

Primo Grill in Tacoma offers a Northwest Summer Barrrbecue cooking class July 12 from 2-4 p.m. The cost is $65, which includes recipes and instruction, lunch with a glass of wine, tax and gratuity. Call Jacqueline at 253.383.7000 to reserrrve.

The Mix

What we’ve been eating/drinking:

• Birria Estilo Jalisco at Moctezuma’s Mexican Restaurant
• Tonkatsu, Twokoi Japanese Restaurant, Tacoma

Sippin’ Out

• Thursdays: Wine tastings, 5-7 p.m., complimentary, Cork!, 3012 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.212.1492.
• Saturdays: Wine tastings, 1-4 p.m., $5-$7, Swing Wine Bar, 825 Columbia St. S.E., Olympia, 360.357.9464.
• Saturdays: Wine tasting, 2-5 p.m., Wine Bank, 7017 27th St. W., University Place, 253.564.1101.
• Saturdays: Wine tasting, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Corky Cellars, 22511 Marine View Dr., Des Moines, 206.622.2010.
• Saturdays: Wine tasting, 1-6 p.m., Wildside Wine, 608A S. Oxford St., Tacoma, 253.565. 0811.
• Mondays: $5 Wine Mondays, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., $5 glass of wines, Rosewood Café, 3323 N. 26th St., Tacoma, 253.752.7999.
• Tuesdays: Wine Tuesdays, 5 p.m., Toscano’s Café & Wine Bar, 437 29th St. N.E., Puyallup, 253.864.8600.