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Food and writing, my twin obsessions

logo-whiteOrphans of the Living
Sept. 30 2025
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Hungry all the time. Chef and writer Kathy Watson can’t be trusted to stick to one lane. She cooks, she writes, she stirs the pot.

So get in on what’s for dinner, and find out what happens when you write a novel and need an agent, or learn that the Royals throw away their panties after one wearing.

Ten thousand people a day think they belong in your inbox. Who are we kidding? But if you like old ladies with a grip on life, spaghetti and sentence structure, this is your place.

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Two passions: food, words. Some days, it’s a tug of war, some days, a peaceful coexistence. Best day ever? Create it, cook it, eat it, write about it. I sold my restaurant, Nora’s Table, in 2015, and now I can be possessed by anything in the long day that I choose: writing 400 words, creating the next menu for the Chefs Collective at Ruby June Inn, teaching a cooking class at Jacob Williams Winery, or tromping through the fields with farmer Laurel Bouret. A rainy afternoon with a foundational cookbook, such as Marlene Mater’s fabulous “Allepo Cookbook” or Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn’s “Charcuterie” can feed my spirit and spark my creative power. So can reading Maggie Shipstead, Michael Chabon or Alison Kraus. I live in Hood River, Oregon, with Stuart, also known as the Happy Meal Man. In other words, all I can desire. And then there’s Satchel, our six-year old Idaho Shag who is simply the world’s best dog. We run together, and sometimes, we even let Stu join us. Our oldest daughter Annie and grandson Levi live in Eugene, Oregon. Annie is cooking in restaurants, like her Mom. Son Max and his wife Hannah and our granddaughter Shiloh are in Portland, where he is a school principal. It’s a good tribe, all the way around.

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