Eating at a temple to the grand fellowship between human and microorganism.
Patrick Alan Coleman
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Walking Bi
Dancing Outside the Big Gay Party
Where are all the bisexual support groups?
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Today’s “Guess the News Story Based on the Incomprehensible and Vague Photo Illustration” Game
Hey you clever Blogtownies! Can you guess the headline of the story that accompanies the following photo illustration? Click here for the answer!
Posted inFood and Drink
Between Rare and a Hard Place
In most cases, I prefer my fish nearly raw, my beef medium rare, and my white meats cooked through. However, I will admit the more time I spend tasting and eating, the more my standards of doneness slide towards bloody. I imagine that if I do this long enough, I’ll be chewing on the beating […]
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Portland’s Frumpiest Restaurant?
On July 1st, we’ll be rolling out what I hope to be one of the classiest, sexiest, (and okay slightly shameful and embarrassing) food issues Portland has ever seen. A food issue you might pull out from under your mattress and take to dinner before going home to pleasure yourself with vegetables… Or something like […]
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The “F-Word”
If Showtime made a show called “The F-Word”, about the trials and tribulations of a group of out and proud foodies, would anybody watch it? Imagine it: In the first episode, Gordon is suffering a crisis after being deprived foodie cred when his housemate Ben posts a glowing review of an undiscovered food cart on […]
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Miscellaneous Food News
Gleaned from press releases, the interwebs, and that dark place behind the fridge, just for you. Ate-oh-ateThe folks behind Simpatica and Laurelhurst Market are planning to open a Hawaiian joint on East Burnside that will be serving, among other things, “plate lunch.” What’s that, you ask? I know for sure it includes macaroni salad and […]
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Lyrical Butchery
Remember when I posted the video about the making of fake chicken product yesterday? Well, in the spirit of fairness, today I present a video of a whole pig being broken down by butcher Vadim Akimenko of Boston, MA, taken from an excellent blog post about his goal to bring humanely raised and slaughtered local […]
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This Week’s Mercury Food Section: Much Meat
This week’s Last Supper focuses on the Portland Meat Collective and their summer schedule of whole animal butchery and charcuterie making classes. What interests me most about the PMC is that they are teaching a skill that at one time was in danger of being lost to most Americans. But knowing how to break down […]
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Nominate Portland’s Sexiest Restaurant
Sexy? We’ve got a killer Food Issue in the works, Blogtownies [Look for it July 1st!], but we need a bit of help from you. We’ll be crowning Portland’s Sexiest Restaurant and you get to nominate your favorite! We’ll be judging what’s sexy using three categories: Looks — Of course. We’re talking atmosphere here, not […]
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Meat School
The Portland Meat Collective’s Populist Pork
The Portland Meat Collective schools thoughtful meat eaters in the lost art of animal butchery.
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Discovering Late Night at Whiskey Soda Lounge
For some reason I was under the impression Pok Pok and its baby sister Whiskey Soda Lounge would never touch the ubiquitous Pad Thai. Then, the other night, I was at the Whiskey Soda Lounge around 12:30am and was handed a late night menu: A Late Night Selection of Yum The alternate spelling fooled me, […]