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Alana Al-Hatlani is a baker by morning and food writer by night. Her writing has appeared in Eater Seattle, Saveur, The Seattle Times, Cherry Bombe, and Life & Thyme. Alana holds a B.A. in journalism from New York University and completed pastry school in Seattle where she now lives.
Sometimes she appears in the garden, in her iconic full-length fur coat. Some guests have heard her, the once-promising concert pianist, playing the hotel piano on the 7th floor. Other nights she shuffles drinks around in the Fireside Room or wanders the fourth-floor hallways in a flowy white dressing gown. Some swear you can catch … Continued