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Peter Miller

Peter Miller runs the Peter Miller Design Bookshop, in Pioneer Square, in the alley between First Avenue and Alaska Way. He is there, every day. He has written three books, Lunch at the Shop, Five Ways to Cook, and How to Wash the Dishes. A fourth book, Shopkeeping, A Manual, will be published in Spring 2024, by Princeton Architectural Press.
Reflections

Ties That Bind: A Fable About the Little Tie That Could

The young man and the little tie were together for years and eventually, they grew old, a little frayed, as they say, at the edges. But they did take one last walk, just to see.
blog

Fourth of July: JoJo and the Nose Trick

I sat on the stairs with my two sisters. We could see the parade was three blocks away, headed our direction. A big young man, with a colorful loose shirt, came up to us. He had a broad smile, we knew him from our Aunt Gladys, who had said, that's JoJo Sprague, don't worry, he's fine.
People

Book-Learning: If Bezos, Gates and Jobs Had Finished the Assignment

I have imagined a specific and mythic collision of English professor Charles Samuels and three contemporary business titans -- Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos -- freshmen at Williams, forced to take English 101.
blog

Better Greens: New Spinach, Spring Ramps

The local spinach has just arrived, and this is the time to find ramps in the spring market.
Books

Serendipity: You Forget all the Books You Know

Some are pals from grade school, some arrived that you greeted but have never sat down with.
blog

Early Days: The Streets are Yet Empty

The waterfront will save Seattle, open it like a shuttered, saddened room, give it air and wind and salt and length and even health.
blog

Springtime: Fresh Local Asparagus Nesting in Spaghetti

This is spaghetti as the soft sweet ground beneath the first of the asparagus, it is their day.
blog

Vignettes: Adding Color to a Midwinter Meal

It is lovely winter colors -- the bright green chives, the white yogurt, cracked pepper and the red/yellow hues from the juice. Vignettes.
Business

Get the Lead Out: The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Pencils

Each jammed mechanical pencil had its own deconstruction. And some are simply more precise than others.
blog

Nothing Lowly about the Lugubrious Lentil

Lentils are incomparably better the next day. But, to keep that secret, they certainly do not look better.
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