Honey, Get Out the Good Chinet, We Have Company

Some of you have wondered where I have been for the last several months. Some readers emailed asking if I was OK. Others submitted concerns that I may have eaten myself to death. While this would be my preferred way to go, I am alive and well. I was quite busy helping Michael White open Ai Fiori, his newest restaurant in the Setai Fifth Avenue hotel, which kept me from my blogging duties. But before you think I am all schmansy now, I still have not forgotten what "fine dining" means in most of the world, and here in particular in Grand Coulee, Washington.