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Summer 2023

Salmon recipes from WSU chefs

Don’t ask LJ Klinkenberg to name a favorite preparation for Chinook salmon.

“For me, there are so many,” says the new director and executive chef of the Marriott Foundation Hospitality and Culinary Innovation Center at Washington State University’s Carson College of Business. “I love to pair the umami richness of seared or grilled Chinook with something that has a little sweet-and-sour flavor with it, like a fruit salsa or a chutney, depending on the time of year.”

To him, Chinook, or king salmon offers the quintessential taste of the Pacific Northwest—the taste of home. The Washington state native grew up northeast of Seattle before … » More …

Summer 2023

Meet the chefs

 

LJ KlinenbergCourtesy LJ Klinenberg/LinkedIn

The new boss: LJ Klinkenberg

When LJ Klinkenberg first applied for the job some 17 years ago, “I was nowhere near ready.” He was still “working up the ranks” and ended up befriending the man who landed the role. He and Jamie Callison worked on culinary projects together, judging competitions and cooking together on occasion.

When Callison left for a culinary deanship in Florida, not only did Klinkenberg still want the job, this time he … » More …

Newspaper clipping about Washington State College Spanish House
Summer 2023

A brief history of the Spanish House at Washington State College

During part of her time in Pullman, Anne H. Fornfeist of Deer Park lived at Spanish House.

A member of Sigma Kappa Phi, she would go on to graduate from Washington State College with a degree in foreign languages and literature in 1922 and raise a family in the fertile farmlands of the Yakima Valley. One of her sons, another Coug, would became a state representative, senator, and congressman before serving as secretary of the Washington State Department of Transportation.

Sid Morrison (’54 Hort.), featured in the Summer 2023 issue of Washington State Magazine, knew his mother went to college in Pullman and that she … » More …