We love our restaurants around here, but the pandemic and Seattle’s blistering growth means these third places are constantly shifting.

Local food author Geraldine DeRuiter writes about Seattle's relationship to its restaurants in her new book, If You Can't Take The Heat. She joins us to discuss the importance of these third places and what we lose when they disappear.

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