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When you think Pacific Northwest cuisine (PNW), what comes to mind? Perhaps stone fruit, nuts, berries, fish, shellfish… maybe mushrooms or lettuce greens such as nettle, dandelion and sorrel. Here is a quick list of ‘typical’ PNW foods, as relayed by my American Regional textbook:
Alaskan Halibut
Apples
Asparagus
Berries: blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, lingonberries, raspberries, salmonberries, strawberries
Cherry
Farmstead Cheese: cougar gold, tillamook
Clams: Geoduck, Manila Clam, Razor Clam… [more]