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Best of: July - September 2009

Bite the Big Ones

10.16.2009

Submitted by jharper on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 11:00pm.
Apples
The Bite:
In the last 3 months, we've given you the skinny on furniture refinishing and eco-investing, and chewed the fat about reusable sandwich bags and organic hot dogs. Some tips made you want to have a party, while others made you want to have a baby (um, or at least find someone who already has one). And away we go...
The Big One: 
The One You Loved:
Directions for DIY, DEET-free bug spray. You guys wanna keep irksome insects at bay - or perhaps you just dig any recipe that involves vodka (we do). Runner-up: Rich and creamy organic gelato from Fainting Goat.

The One We Loved:
iPhone app Locavore for finding local, in-season produce. We're still slumming it with a non-iPhone, but we totally dig this cool app and use our cell to access the Facebook version. Runner-up: Sweet-smelling Mama K's Aromatic Play Clay. This biodegradable, gluten-free play dough has been a permanent, stress-reducing fixture on our desk since we got it. Kids, get your own.

Best Way to Get Your Bacon Fix and Still Be Able to Look Your Pet Pig in the Eye:
Pepper Bacon-esque Hummus with Smoked Chardonnay Oil. The new flavor from Sound Bites Sauce & Spread Co., with locally grown garbanzos and Yakima Valley grape-seed oil, gets crazy close to real bacon flavor - and it's vegan.

Cocktail Fact

Seattle was the first U.S. city to play a Beatles song on the radio.

Small Changes Add Up

If 10,000 Seattle Biters actually did opt for bug sprays made without DEET, we kept the weight of nearly 319 electric bug zappers in nasty chemicals off our bods.

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rana standal  on October 19, 2009 at 08:28 AM 1
I was wondering what your source is for the cocktail fact in this entry, "Seattle was the first U.S. city to play a Beatles song on the radio." Based on my internet research, I was not able to confirm this fact. Thanks!

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