Seattle Times – For Willows Inn chef Blaine Wetzel, Lummi Island is a nine-square-mile pantry
Glossy, gorgeous cookbooks like “Sea and Smoke” are often called “aspirational,” which can be a backhanded compliment — you might aspire to make the beautiful food on the heavy-paper-stock pages, but it’ll sit on the coffee table until it’s supplanted by the next tome...
Eater – Inside ‘Sea and Smoke,’ an Unconventional Chronicle of the Pacific Northwest
Chef Blaine Wetzel of the Willows Inn on Lummi Island unleashes his debut cookbook. “I won’t say the timing of the release is necessarily an important point for me, but the scope of the project was,” says acclaimed chef Blaine Wetzel when asked why...
The Seattle Times: The Willows Inn cookbook is coming
1. COMING SOON FROM BLAINE WETZEL: “Sea and Smoke: Flavors from the Untamed Pacific Northwest,” the cookbook from Willows Inn chef Blaine Wetzel, with writer Joe Ray, is coming out October 27. Charity Burggraaf’s photos of Lummi Island and Wetzel’s food are almost...
CNN – 5 amazing island escapes you’ve probably never considered
Sure, the first things that come to mind when you think “island escape” are white sands and palm trees. Maybe a coconut with a straw in it. But for those willing to look beyond the tropics, there are plenty of worthy island getaways around the world that...