The Skagit Valley Dumpling Queen
ACROSS CULTURES, BORDERS, languages, and histories, there are certain food traditions that seem universal. One such tradition—broadly that of a cooked dough wrapped around a filling—can be found everywhere from Nepal (momo) to Turkey (manti), from India (samosas) to Korea (mandu) to Ecuador (empanadas), and to all of its varieties in China (jiaozi, bao, guo tie, etc.). It’s the dumpling, and it’s now made a local home in the Skagit Valley-based West Coast Dumpling Company. Running out of…