Seattle is:
- the most literate city in the U.S.
- the city that first played a Beatles song on the radio
- the birthplace of Starbucks, Boeing, Microsoft and Amazon
- home to Pearl Jam. and a number of other bands, but none are relevant when compared to Pearl Jam. Peeeearl Jam
- the city with the longest continuously operating farmer’s market in the U.S. (since 1907)
- where an anthropologist blogger with a citrus nickname has a (very good) pizza restaurant. marta won’t stop talking about her “apple crisp something dessert”. h-e-l-p.