Why not stop by New Deal Distillery [1311 SE 9th Avenue] tomorrow for Season’s Eatings, their holiday booze and food bazaar? It’s an event perfect for a whole bunch of different people: Drunks! Foodies! Foodie Drunks! People Married to Foodie Drunks! People Who Don’t Like Shopping Unless There is Booze Involved Somehow! A canned food […]
Patrick Alan Coleman
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The Other Side
Eating Beyond Macs at Montage
Montage is a must more for the atmosphere than the food. But flip the
menu over and explore.
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The Mercury Online Charity Auction Benefits Outside In
And Here’s Why
After learning of the tremendous number of services Outside In provides to Portland’s marginalized communities, “safety net” seems like the most apt way to describe the local nonprofit. For the last 40 years, using an interwoven network of health care and social services, the agency has made it their mission to catch those who have […]
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Holiday Ale Fest Begins Tomorrow
Tomorrow is a big day for Portland beer drinkers, marking the beginning of the five-day beer bust known as the Holiday Ale Festival. The thing I like most about the event is that it happens in Pioneer Square beneath a humongous tent. I’ve always been fond of drinking in my living room, so it stands […]
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Happy Anniversary, Battle in Seattle
Ten years ago today, I hailed a cab out of a riot. It had been a long day. I smelled of teargas and pepper spray. I’d given away my gas mask and all of my medical supplies. I had worked the barricades in downtown Seattle that day as a medic—pulling people out of the teargas […]
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Not Africa
Afrique Bistro’s Promise and Carelessness
Afrique Bistro frustrates with excellent flavors stymied by
carelessness.
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Blogtown Flash Food Drive: Final Hours!!!
You have two hours to flex your generosity and donate to the Blogtown Flash Food Drive!!! At 12:30 pm, I’m packing up the car and heading to the Oregon Food Bank donation center, but not before I pick a winner in our final drawing. Let’s rock this!
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Blogtown Flash Food Drive: The Home Stretch is for Winners!
First off, you have less than 12 hours to donate food the Blogtown Flash Food Drive. The drive officially ends tomorrow at 12:30 pm with a final drawing for some awesome books donated by the awesome Alison Hallett. By this time tomorrow, I’ll hopefully be unloading the truck I had to rent to take all […]
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Blogtown Flash Food Drive: Cookbook Drawing Today!
On Friday one of Blogtown’s most devoted readers donated enough food to the drive to essentially triple the amount we had already collected. Thank YOU (you know who you are)! To make matters even more interesting, he decided not to enter the drawing for the two cookbooks: The Silver Spoon: Pasta and Bob’s Red Mill […]
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Blogtown Flash Food Drive: Day Three!
Thanks to everyone who has donated to the Blogtown Flash Food Drive so far by dropping non-perishable food items by our offices at 605 NE 21st, ste 200! This is what the booty looks like so far: I would love to double this amount as we head into the weekend. To help that happen, I’m […]
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Stuff It In Your Pie-Hole! Step One: The Crust
It’s been rare lately that I’ve had the experience of feeling truly entranced when watching someone cook. I think it may have something to do with the interminable flash and noise of all those fucking reality cooking shows. But this morning, when I watched Catherine Schon of Sassafras Catering make pie crust by hand in […]
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More Side-Dish Domination!
Ruling the Thanksgiving table with a well-prepared side-dish. That’s what the holiday is all about. And, sure, “thankfulness.” But everybody is thankful when the slop brought to the feast is delicious. While putting this week’s food feature together, there were a few recipes I was unable to include. The first comes from Chef Robert Reynolds, […]