Seattle, Washington Feb 17, 2021 (Issuewire.com) - Media Contact:
Keri DeTore
206.334.8512
keridetore@gmail.com
Buying Contacts:
Paige Stockley
206-618-6477
stockleypaige@gmail.com
Dina Moreno
206-390-0821
dstockleymoreno@gmail.com
(SEATTLE, WA—February 16, 2021) At once a cookbook, travelogue, biography, and wine list, Seattle Times Wine columnist Tom Stockley’s A Collection of My Favorite Things to Cook...Plus Notes and Comments on Culinary Travels Everywhere will take you on a delightful journey of culinary and oenophilic enthusiasm and appreciation. Using Stockley’s own hand-written recipes, illustrations, scrapbook-style memorabilia, and his Seattle Times Wine columns, My Favorite Things brings you into Tom’s world, as if you’re sharing the stories and the meals with him around the table.
This personal touch comes from the loving curation and storytelling of his daughters Dina and Paige. They discovered recipes and travel journals after the untimely death of Tom and his wife Peggy in the 2000 crash of Alaska Airlines flight 261 off the coast of California. The loss of this vibrant, globe-trotting couple was felt widely. From their houseboat neighborhood in Seattle to West Coast Wineries to international culinary groups, they created a community in all their ventures. The Stockleys embodied the saying, “Strangers are just friends we haven’t met yet.”
With essays from his family, chef Greg Atkinson, winemaker Bob Betz, and Seattle Times
Publisher Frank Blethen, this collection will appeal to anyone who shares any of Tom’s favorite things: family, wine, food, travel, community. The truly personal touch reads less like a cookbook and more like a story of a life well-lived, or an excellent wine: full, robust, and pairs with everything.
The book is available on the website www.tomstockleycookbook.com and at numerous wine stores and food shops throughout the Puget Sound area. Look for the Seattle Times write-up in the March 28, 2021 issue of Sunday’s Pacific Magazine.
Marketing:
Dina Moreno and Paige Stockley are available for interviews and promotional events.
Links to more information:
Tom Stockley Cookbook web page:
www.tomstockleycookbook.com
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About Tom Stockley:
Born in Bremerton, Washington in 1936 writing was Tom’s path early on. He joined the Journalism program at the University of Washington; where he met his future wife Peggy while working for the UW Daily. He started as a journalist with the Bremerton Sun, moved on to the Peninsula Times in the Bay Area, and finished at The Seattle Times as an Editor for the Sunday Issue Pacific Magazine, and weekly Wine columnist. He has two daughters, Dina and Paige who curated “A Collection of My Favorite Things to Cook.”
As the wine writer for The Seattle Times during the industry’s early days, Tom found himself at the epicenter of Washington’s transformation from ho-hum food producer to crafter and curator of wines that would eventually compete with the world’s best. In 1990, Tom became the first Northwest writer to be named Wine Writer of the Year by “Wines and Vines.” His weekly Wine column focusing on wines that didn’t cost a fortune to enjoy with everyday meals appeared from 1973 until his passing in 2000.
Wine sellers would cut his column from the paper and tape it next to the wines he had reviewed that week. They knew that if Tom was reviewing a particular wine, they needed to overstock for the run on it that would come after. Along with publishing an annual wine list in Pacific Magazine, he was an internationally renowned wine judge.
The wine cellar at Columbia Tower in Seattle was named in his honor, and a local park near their houseboat dock was renovated and named after him and Peggy.
Tom has authored three wine-related books: Great Wine Values (1987, Peanut Butter Publishing) Winery Tours in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, & British Columbia (1978, The Writing Works) and Winery Trails of the Pacific Northwest (1977, The Writing Works)
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