Sarah Monson: Cheap Beer and Pork Lead to a Cookbook
Seattle based Sarah Monson, cook and cookbook author, is our guest for this episode.
Sarah grew up in San Luis Obispo, California, and moved to Seattle for culinary school at Seattle Culinary Academy. At the time of this recording she cooked at Rupee Bar in Ballard, which served Sri Lankan inspired cocktail food.
When restaurants shut down, Sarah started collecting handwritten recipes from cooks, bakers and bartenders. That became The Seattle Restaurant Industry’s Guide to Quarantine Cooking. Volume 2 sold out its 450 copy print run in about nine days. She also explains the pork and Rainier recipe that caught the attention of the Seattle Times, and how a pork shoulder from a restaurant walk in started it. Then come her Seattle picks: Analog on Capitol Hill, Venture Coffee in Ballard, the Layers Sandwich Co. food truck, and the pop ups she hoped would last.
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Founder and editor of Explore Washington State, which he started on Anderson Island in 2010. A lifelong Washington resident who has lived in Tacoma, Ellensburg, Olympia and Seattle and now calls Wenatchee home, Scott curates every place we recommend and answers reader questions himself. He also hosts the Exploring Washington State podcast.
