It’s International Food Photography Day on Thursday. (No idea who gets to decide these things but it is associated with the Food Photographer of the Year, which is itself sponsored by an apple.) There’s an opportunity to win a nifty Fujifilm X-E2 camera kit but otherwise it seems like an opportunity to share pictures with […]
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Elder Hall Happenings & the French Name
Chef Jason French has Elder Hall, the annex to his Ned Ludd restaurant, fully up and running following a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier in the year. This month sees the start of a series of classes run by French himself, offering tuition in culinary techniques, food preservation, fermentation and the like, while sharing stories and […]
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Food Science
Dan Pashman Wants You to Eat More Better
The Sporkful‘s Dan Pashman wants you to Eat More Better.
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Jacobson Salt Dinners: Bringing Together Local and National Talent
British-born chef April Bloomfield originally wanted to be a police officer, but by chance happened to miss the application deadline so she enrolled in catering college. Instead of patrolling the streets of Birmingham, her cooking career took off (like Jamie Oliver, she was an alumni of the River Café in London) and she ended up […]
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Travel Options for the Coffee Nerd
Stumptown has released a new travel kit called The Rambler for those seeking to make good coffee wherever they are. The kit includes an Aeropress, a Porlex mini hand grinder, two enamel mugs, 12 oz of coffee and a bag for it all, specially designed by Portland-based Wood & Faulk. The price of $185 might […]
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An Anniversary Gift from Boxer Ramen
What’s almost as good as free? Almost free, which is what Boxer Ramen is offering on Saturday in celebration of their first birthday. Housed in Union Way, where it probably offers the most value for money compared to the other premium retail outlets there (though there is that good candy store…), Micah Camden and Katie […]
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The Many Lives of Gregory Gourdet
Departure’s Gregory Gourdet has been rocking it on Top Chef so far this season, finishing in the top three in the first two episodes, while staying true to his culinary roots by focusing on Asian fusion and Haitian-style dishes that utilize seasonal ingredients. He’s always smiling and is refreshingly zero-drama for a show that thrives […]
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Flying Fish Birthday Bash
The Flying Fish Company is basically a shack nestled next to Kruger’s market on SE Hawthorne, but it is one of the best places in town to buy seafood. Along with sustainable fresh and flash-frozen fish, they also dabble in fresh pasture meats, local spirits, seasonings and oil—they pack a lot into a small space. […]
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Dinner and a Cookbook
Food & Wine editor-in-chief Dana Cowin is in town next week promoting her new book, My Mistakes in the Kitchen: Learning to Cook with 65 Great Chefs and Over 100 Delicious Recipes. By her own reckoning Cowin used to be an atrocious cook, so she decided to do something about it. Fortunately she was in […]
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Stop Making Sense
James John Café’s Got Quirk That Works
James John Café’s got quirk that works.
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That’s Portland Cocktail Week For You
Portland Cocktail week is mostly a gathering for professional bartenders—it’s like a residential school with classes on mixing drinks and the bar business—but they do have a couple of events that are open to the public, both happening this Thursday and both looking like they could be fun. The first sees the return of the […]
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Beer Festivities Galore!
Brewpublic’s Killer Beer Week (it’s actually a 10-day run) kicks off Friday. There’s a lot happening across 11 craft beer venues, not least because Brewpublic have some special sixth anniversary celebrations going on. Highlights include: – Friday 17: Killer Beer Summit at Roscoe’s. A little bit of everything is promised, including IPAs, sour and wild […]