It’s too bad that Washington State law prohibits Seattle chefs from cooking with weed in their restaurants, because people love eating weed, and people also love eating the type of imaginative, indulgent cuisine that one can find only in a good restaurant. Even though it remains illegal for chefs to cut a little infused oil into the aioli they serve at work, it is completely legal for them to do so in the privacy of their own homes. Or, in this case, the home of chef Aleks Dimitrijevic, of La Bête fame.
Five local kitchen professionals gathered in his house on a recent night to experiment with drugs—making a variety of dishes and letting me watch how it was done. April Roth, store manager at Uncle Ike’s and quite the home cannabis cook herself, helped us select the appropriate products—a selection of cannabis cooking oils from Ethos Extracts, as well as some good old-fashioned flower—and the caper was on…