Caprial and John Portland Food and Drink reported that the plucky Caprial and John have closed their kitchen. The cooking couple could commonly be seen weekends on PBS politely bickering over recipes. The restaurant had fallen off the radar in recent years and according to an article in the Oregonian, Caprial’s filed for bankruptcy in […]
Patrick Alan Coleman
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Call Any Vegetable: Try Vegan Week Begins Tomorrow
Call any vegetable, pick up your phoneThink of a vegetable, lonely at homeCall any vegetable, and the chances are good,That a vegetable will respond to you. -Frank Zappa, “Call Any Vegetable,” from Kill Ugly Radio During a long interview with the delightful vegan cookbook author Isa Chandra Moskowitz, I remember her characterizing my job as, […]
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Vandals in the Garden
Ravaged corn plants at Earl Boyles Community Garden I know that as an editor I should be all reporterly and unbiased, but when I read this story from the Oregonian this morning posted on Good Morning News, I was frankly too pissed to care about bias: Early this spring, Edith Gillis jumped at the chance […]
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The Front Lawn Farm
The Sellwood Garden Club Farms People’s Lawns—and Everybody Wins
The Sellwood Garden Club is slowly turning urban Southeast Portland
into a sustainable farm. One lawn at a time.
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Diner Rant
The Original’s Failed Attempt to Improve an American Classic
The Original attempts to evolve “Americana” cuisine, but fails at every
turn—except milkshakes.
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Everything Joel Salatin Does is Illegal
Joel Salatin The problems associated with the way we’ve chosen to feed our population include food borne pathogens from robust strains of antibiotic resistant pathogens, diabetes, obesity, water pollution, increased green house gasses, and a general disconnect between ourselves and real food. We wander the grocery store, reaching for whatever processed corn product we feel […]
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Pie-Off!
I just had a wonderful conversation with Pie Commissioner LeAnn Locher (aka: blogger LeLo in NoPo) about this year’s Pie-Off at Peninsula Park, to be held Sunday, Aug. 16th at 1 pm. Pie Off, 2008 The pie baking contest began last year on Twitter when LeLo started an impromptu pie challenge with fellow Portland bloggers […]
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Travels in Tacoville
The Search for the Perfect Taco: Part Four
Part four of a monthly column dedicated to Portland’s taco trucks and
the tacos they create.
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Of Sandwich Bondage
Sometimes I feel we’ve gone to such extremes in food, a plain ham and cheese sandwich on white bread has become subversive. No bacon. No fancy mustards or mortadella. No special greens or chutneys or spices. No food stuffs stuffed inside other food stuffs and then stuffed between a doughnut and a grilled gruyere and […]
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The Matador Loses a Bit of Its Soul
Tonight at the Matador on Burnside, bartender Laura Caroll will be working her last shift. She’s been behind the bar at the storied Portland watering hole since 1970, pouring drinks for the thirsty dive bar denizens of Portland’s Westside. She’s worked through three changes of ownership, and has probably seen more hip young people try […]
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My Oregon Craft Beer Month: Over
Well, the numbers below are what I have to show at the end of my Oregon craft beer month. Impressive? Nah. Fun? Hell yes! Number of beers consumed: 47Number of Breweries: 21Weight Gain Loss: 5 poundsBlog Posts: 31Sunburns: 1Lessons learned: Too many to count My last beer of the month will be Black Butte XXI […]
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Bittersweet Farms Need You
We can debate health care reform and the brutality of the current economic situation on rural America all we want. But for many of us those issues will largely be abstract. For others, those issues are a terrible reality that can bring everything tumbling down. The Mercury received an impassioned press release from lauded chef […]