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BARN STUDIO CATERS TO THE EPICURIOUS
Vote ‘yes’ campaign finds few contributors
Whipping up a group for gourmands BY JESSICA SHELTON Bainbridge Island Review
In one corner, two women discuss the merits of bulgur. “I’ve never cooked with it before. Have you?” “Yes, I put a bunch of condiments on it and it’s fabulous.” Christine Chapman overhears their conversation, which has now turned to the worst dish they’ve ever prepared, per a prompt scrawled in green Crayola. “Lutefisk,” she jumps in. Dawn McNamara and Diana Riddle grin, pondering their own answers. “Perhaps this is a question for my kids,” McNamara says. Next thing you know, the gang, which numbers 15, is oohing and aahing over “Modernist Cuisine at Home.” At 459 pages, it’s a volume, not a book; its lusty photographs — “Food porn!” one person exclaims — are not meant to be soiled by spills and splatters. Thankfully, the trophy wife comes with a practical partner: a squeezed-down, spiral-bound “Kitchen Manual” that’s impervious to destruction. As the chatter settles, Kate McDill, BARN’s Kitchen Arts
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Jessica Shelton | Bainbridge Island Review
Christine Chapman of Crumbs shows BARN’s Kitchen Arts group how to do royal icing transfers for its first Third Thursday meeting. studio head, and other members of the “Kitchen Cabinet,” as the studio’s steering committee calls itself, give a bit of a history lesson.
BARN’s Kitchen Arts group has been gathering in various forms since its founding — four years ago, at least, McDill guess-
es. They’ve hosted classes at St. Barnabas (how to make ricotta) TURN TO BARN | A13
BARN raisin’ Construction on Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network’s (BARN) permanent center began this past month at Three Tree Lane, the former site of Grandma’s Tree Farm. The 25,000-square-foot facility, which is expected to be completed by early 2017, will house studios for electronic and technical arts, fiber arts, glass arts, metal machining and more, plus a commercial kitchen and instructional space for the kitchen arts program.
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Bainbridge residents will cast votes on the most expensive ballot measure ever for the island — an $81.2 million proposal to pay for a new building for Blakely Elementary, a replacement for the 100 Building at Bainbridge High and other improvements in school facilities — but the vote “yes” campaign has found just a shadow of the financial support that swelled campaign coffers in earlier bond measures. The campaign group Bainbridge Island Public School Supporters, a political action committee set up in November to promote the capital bond measure, has reported a total of $21,139 in donations to the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission, the agency that serves as a watchdog on campaign financing. That figure is far below what campaigns have raised in the past to pay for improved school facilities on Bainbridge, however. By contrast, campaigns for the last two major bond measures in the Bainbridge Island School District, in 2009 and 2006, raised $36,704 and $26,847, respectively. The 2009 measure was the $42 million bond proposal that financed a new Wilkes
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