Naomi Tomky

The stamp of Sephardic Jews on Seattle is strong, from Benaroya Hall, where the Seattle Symphony plays, to the real estate holdings of the Alhadeff family, best known for the now-closed Longacres race track. But the ink of Sephardic influence is fading from Pike Place Market...

Why Seattle is the 7th best place to live in the country: To answer the question on many people's mind: "No, it doesn't rain all the time." The natural beauty of the city – it's surrounded by both mountains and water on two sides – is one of the biggest draws for residents...

Eating in China when you don't speak a Chinese language is not hard: Hotels provide astonishing multi-cultural buffets every morning for breakfast, and tourist-packed restaurants in city centers offer menus with pictures and fractured English. But breaking through the language barrier to find the location, order the right dish, and then pay for your food—that’s more difficult...

I love food. You love food. But we might not love the same food, and that’s okay. What’s unacceptable is spinning personal preference into blanket statements—attaching the attributes of right or wrong, or inherent value—about food, or worse, the people cooking it...

Teriyaki, the dish that the New York Times called Seattle’s version of the Chicago dog, is fading from the collective food brain of the city. What happened?...