Hsiao-Ching Chou is a partner at Suzuki + Chou Communimedia, where she serves as a senior consultant in communications. For nearly eight years prior, she was the award-winning food editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper. She and her television producer husband live in Seattle with their daughter, who was born in October 2006.
If you live in Seattle or you're planning to be in Seattle on May 17-18, do stop by the fourth annual Seattle Cheese Festival, which will take place at the historic Pike Place Market. I will be the emcee at the cooking demo stage, where some of the city's best chefs will share ways to incorporate cheese into recipes. I am also moderating a panel on May 18 at 10 a.m. called "From Curds to Consumer." The panelists will discuss the process of getting cheese from the farm to the consumer's table.
This is a great event for the family -- there will be a children's parade at 10:15 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Participants are encouraged to dress up as their favorite dairy animal (cow, sheep, goat). There will be hundreds of cheeses available for sampling and the $1 suggested donation benefits the Seattle Cheese Festival scholarship, which is awarded to an aspiring cheesemaker. For info: www.seattlecheesefestival.com.
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