Ron Shissler has over 30 years working as a chef in the Seattle Area. While working everyday as a chef he also enjoys the lifestyle associated with helping people have fun with their dining experence.
What do family celebrations, day long business meetings and protests have in common? They all have food. As chef about town for Seattle I feel it is my responsibility to ask the tough questions even in the throes of a...
Food is all we really need to keep our bodies healthy, yet what is your definition of food? I define food in my own personal life as naturally occurring ingredients that I am willing to consume to sustain my life...
There is such a thing as customer service. We have gotten so used to accepting what someone thinks as good customer, that when we see it for real we are embarrassed to accept it graciously. I am awakened by a...
It was 1991 and Microsoft had been around for a few years, I was the Executive Chef at that time and found myself doing things in a new way. I was fortunate to see and experience the things I did...
I officially declare Seattle Mardi Gras as dead, dead, dead. The politics of the city wanted it dead and it took years for it to happen, but politics won. This was a giant revenue source for badly hurting retail operations...
Street vendors have been around since the beginning of human time. With respect to how mankind eats, not much has changed in thousands of years. Street vendors have always been a important part of human society and the concept has...
This is a very simple Canna- Cuisine recipe for pumpkin pie. I have adapted a family recipe to offer a gluten free solution, reducing the salt by using Himalayan pink salt and incorporating medical cannabis into the batter. The base...
This recipe was created for a person on a raw food diet. I choose the Himalayan Pink salt due to the number of minerals found inside, eighty-nine at last count. This is another medical cannabis recipe, but if you...
The twentieth anniversary of Hempfest will go down as one of the very best I have witnessed to date. The crowds, the music, the breath of vendors and the food (what kind of Hempfest would it be without the food...
One of the founding principles of Hempfest was to offer a venue where local businesses can showcase their products. Cannabis Cuisine is becoming a billion dollar industry very quickly and it will not be long before we see it more...