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Feeling Crabby
A reminder: The annual Crab Festival at local
Market Street restaurants
runs through the end of February. During Crab Fest, Market Street will
offer five types of crab, served at least a dozen different ways. It’s
an especially bountiful year for Dungeness crab, according to Oregon
Crab Commission director Nick Furman, and you’ll find whole Dungeness
crabs in the pots at Market Street. Other Crab Festival enticements
include crab ravioli, Alaska red king crab legs, center-cut filet crab
Oscar, Maryland lump crab cakes and a “Catch-Your-Own-Dungeness-Crab
Weekend” contest for two to Newport, Ore. For more info, restaurant
locations and such, go online to
GINC.com.
Tea Time Rebecca Sheeran, owner of the
Tea Grotto (2030 E. 900 South, 801-466-8255), and
Flow Yoga (2065 E. 2100 South, 801-485- 5933) owner Jennifer Ellen Mueller have unveiled a new signature tea blend in honor of Flow Yoga’s regular retreats to Kerala, India. Mueller is currently in Kerala with a group of students to study an Indian martial art called kalari. Flow Yoga Spiced Chai is available both at the Tea Grotto and Flow Yoga’s newly built tea bar. I’m told that it is ayurvedically balancing for all doshas, meaning that, according to Indian medicine, it calms the system. The Spiced Chai tea blend incorporates cardamom, clove, ginger, black tea and various other Indian spices, and is organic and vegan. Flow Yoga’s tea bar also features other Tea Grotto hand-blended, loose-leaf teas with filter lids, organic India teas, hand-made, gluten-free vegan cookies from Connie’s Cookies, and handmade nutrition bars imported from a specialty baker in Brooklyn.
Woot! Woot!
Thai curry aficionados will be pleased to learn that Ekamai Thai Curry has opened next to Bruges Waffles & Frites at 336 W. 300 South. Ekamai is operated by Woot Pangsawan, who used to work for Thai Siam. And hey, you can’t go wrong with curry from someone named Woot! Phone Ekamai at 801-359-8447.
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