Talent Among Us
May 1st, 2008 at 02:59pm Giselle
One of the pleasures of my job at Seattle Homes & Lifestyles is the extraordinarily talented people I get to work with on a regular basis. Spring blossoms are now appearing in our featured gardens, and bookstores shelves are sprouting spring book releases—among them, a few from our valued contributors.
Our longtime garden editor, Debra Prinzing, who left Seattle for sunny Southern California in 2006, collaborated with contributing photographer William Wright on Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways (Clarkson-Potter, $30), available in bookstores now. The book includes Seattle-area sheds featured in
Photo by Hank Drew
the May 2006 issue of SH&L. For this issue, Debra wrote features on a Shoreline garden and the winner of the third annual "First in Home and Garden Design" award at the 2008 Northwest Flower & Garden Show.
Food writer Becky Selengut, who is also a local chef and cooking instructor, is co-author of the Washington Local and Seasonal Cookbook (Lone Pine Publishing, $19.95), which hit bookkstore shelves in March of this year. The book includes 91 recipes featuring seasonal local ingredients, a topic of special interest to Selengut, who operates a Web site, SeasonalCornucopia.com, that tracks when local foods are in season in the Northwest. This month, Becky shares recipes using wine in "Uncorked in the Kitchen."
Also out this spring: Kate Baldwin, whose images illustrate Becky’s article, took some of the photographs for How to Knit in the Woods: 20 Projects for the Great Outdoors (Skipstone, $16.95), by Shannon Okey. The book features knitting projects designed for camping—and for passing the time around a campfire.
Other talented contributors who worked on the issue include Randy Altig, who offers tips on wine cellar decor; Kathy Renner, who describes a beautiful Kirkland home; and Market Editor Virginia Bunker, who writes about landscape designers’ inspirations, wall coverings and vessels for holding blooms from your garden.
SH&L is currently scouting beautiful gardens to photograph this summer and feature in 2009. If you have one—or know someone who does—please let us know!
Giselle Smith, Editor
gsmith@seattlehomesmag.com
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