Good Food

Good Food
Chicken Soup

Just in time for the snow, a warming recipe for a winter favorite.

Good Food
Timeless Greek Cooking

More than any cuisine in Europe, Greek food and wine are linked to a way of life that is at once indigenous and timeless.

Cooking with Viggo
Lucky Beans for the New Year

For as long as anyone can remember folks in the American South have served black-eyed peas (actually a bean indigenous to West Africa!) on January 1 for good luck.

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Multi-Culti Christmas

Christmas in the United States is such hodgepodge of customs that it is often difficult to say what comes from where. But even in today's multi-culti environment, old-country traditions do persist in purer form around the country.

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Swiss Specialties for the Holidays

It is not so much a question of what the Swiss eat and drink as how they eat and drink that is important. Fondue, probably the most typical dish of Switzerland, reflects a healthy, warming attitude toward life.

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Hamburger

A large number of people that I meet have the notion that European and French chefs live on the likes of foie gras and sturgeon, fancy foods and caviar, that they turn up their nose at the thought of such down-to-earth fare as American hamburgers, hot dog

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Gazpacho

"A little of this and a little of that," will be the answer if you ask what it contains, for Andalusian dishes, like Andalusian jokes, are not intended to bear solemn scrutiny. Chef Viggo provides the recipe.

3 Squares

Breakfast on Queen Anne Hill, lunch on Capitol Hill, dinner in Greenwood.

3 Squares
Philadelphia Specialty Spreads to Seattle

An ode to the Philly cheese steak: for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night snack.

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Burgundy

The cuisine of rich and plentiful Burgundy is regarded as one of the finest in Europe, a harmonious partner to her wines.

3 Squares

Breakfast in Roosevelt, lunch on the Fremont Cut or in Ballard, dinner on Crown Hill.

3 Squares

Breakfast on Phinney Ridge, lunch in Ballard, dinner in Wedgwood.

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Summer Cooking

The pleasure of summer cooking is its casual simplicity and lightness, the company of friends on the deck, around the picnic table or by the barbecue grill in the backyard.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner in the neighborhood
3 Squares

Breakfast in Wallingford, lunch in Ballard and dinner in Ravenna

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Jarlsberg Cheese

Viggo experiments with cooking with Jarlsberg cheese, a delicacy from his home town.

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Cooking with Viggo

The Loire valley in France provides fertile ground for culinary exploration.

Cooking with Viggo
Cooking with Viggo

Viggo features a guest chef demonstrating the advantages of not planning your menu ahead of time.

Fremont Most-Intelligencer
3 Squares

Breakfast, lunch and dinner at three Fremont spots.

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Cooking With Viggo

Tapes and desserts from Spain--recipes included!

Cooking with Viggo
The Truth about Pasta

Viggo introduces us to homemade pasta and a delicious recipe to use it in.