Outside Magazine – Chef Blaine Wetzel’s Quest to Become the Ultimate Locavore

Mar 6, 2013 | Press

In the winter of 2010, Riley Starks was in trouble. A fisherman and organic farmer, the 59-year-old owned a small inn on Washington State’s Lummi Island, a nine-mile ridge of fir and hemlock rising out of the sea near the Canadian border, with a year-round population...

Ooh, my Favorite! – Fish, Forage, and Farm at The Willows Inn

Mar 5, 2013 | Blogs, Press

Last fall Andrew was invited up to Lummi Island for a little getaway at The Willows Inn. I’ve written about my love affair with the island and the restaurant before, so I was desperate to find a way to cleverly blackmail work my way into the trip. The Fish, Forage,...

ChuckEats – Perfect Meal 2012

Jan 3, 2013 | Blogs, Press

The smoke, the wild, the vegetable, the historical, and the aged – many themes championed here have finally reached a critical mass in 2012. Some are already official trends for 2013. It would be easy to dismiss them as simply stylish but a few chefs have been walking...

DuJour – Where the Wild Things Are

Jan 1, 2013 | Press

A 26-year-old culinary sensation is tantalizing the Pacific Northwest with his succulent foraged fare Behind every great dish is a chattering of stories waiting to be told. Take the ripe blackberries with wild yarrow, carrot flowers, sorrel and chickweed in a puddle...

Gourmet Pigs: Willows Inn (Lummi Island, WA): An Unforgettable Experience

Dec 28, 2012 | Blogs, Press

My favorite meal in 2012? Easy. Willows Inn at Lummi Island is a small inn on a small island in Washington, with a restaurant helmed by Chef Blaine Wetzel, a young native of the area who had worked at Noma (you know, the world’s best restaurant). When they talk...

Lonely Planet – Top 10 US Travel Destinations for 2013

Dec 25, 2012 | Press

Every year our US-based editors team up with Lonely Planet’s expert authors to compile a list of US destinations that are prime for the next year. Best in Travel 2013 already covered two places we think the world should be looking at – San Francisco and the Gulf...