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The Charter Oak restaurant in St. Helena, California was the elegant setting of a spectacular Sur La Table hosted dinner among 50 friends and fellow diners held the second Saturday in October during the Napa Valley harvest season. The evening marked the first “ Dinner Series”...
If you ask Renee Erickson if she ever thought she’d become a James Beard Award-winning chef, restaurateur and cookbook author, her answer will probably surprise you. “I fell in love with restaurants. I loved being there and, slowly, I worked my way into the kitchen. It was...
Before it was a white, brick-and-mortar building emblazoned with the words Sur La Table, our Pike Place store was simply a glimmer of a vision for our founder, Shirley Collins. “There wasn’t a place in Seattle at the time to buy any kind of cooking equipment—nothing. If you...
You know that moment when you get your hands on a really good cookbook and you can’t wait to 1) make every recipe in that cookbook and 2) tell anyone and everyone who will listen about it?Yeah, that’s pretty much us ever since we got our first look at James Beard Award-winning...