Foodie Gift Ideas: 7 books to make your mouth water

Every year we look around for Northwest-y gifts to send across the country to a relative, or wrap for a local friend. Seven food-related books made the list this year.

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Any one of these spots would be enough good news for a month, but this season three celebrated Seattle chefs are all opening restaurants downtown.

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A local community kitchen high school program is betting on it. And they've got a prominent national food activist cheering them on.

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Great food, strong community, small margins. Eat for Equity remodels philanthropy without the black tie.

Kurt Timmermeister's new book, Growing a Feast (WW Norton, $24.95), tells the story of food itself.

His first book, after selling his Capitol Hill restaurant, Septieme, was called Growing a Farmer. Not always mouthwatering, either, with chapters on killing chickens and slaughtering pigs. Farming, he learns quickly, isn't just about deracinating vegetables or tugging at udders, it's about slitting throats, too, as his Facebook page shows this week.

We may buy pork chops on Styrofoam trays wrapped in plastic, but Timmermeister knows better. "I feel that food is intrinsically good, he wrote in Growing a Farmer. Food is from the earth. It provides us with nutrition to live. It is the source of all life, it has the power to make us healthy."

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Foodie Gift Ideas: 7 books to make your mouth water