Please read my latest Taste column in today’s Seattle Times Pacific Northwest magazine. It highlights the contributions made to the local cocktail, restaurant, and bar scene offered by two amazing women: celebrity chef, cookbook author, and “bar chef” Kathy Casey and restaurateur/bar owner and “soothsayer of the city’s zeitgeist” Linda Derschang.

Kathy’s recipe for Sake Sangria is also a keeper. Wish I had a pitcher right now!