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It is a popular belief that there is a pie behind every diner counter, but that conceit may be waning. According to pie expert and New York Daily News food critic Pascale Le Draoulec, over the past 20 years homemade pies have been vanishing from restaurants. A few calls to local cafés and restaurants found […]

Saffron 1126 SW 18th 241-1141 It’s 10 in the morning and I’m already hovering over my Saffron leftovers, devouring the rest of what was a beautiful meal. I’m not one of those wusses who needs to eat fruit and yogurt in the morning–a turkey sandwich is just as good–but even if I was, the addictive […]

You can’t swing a dead cat in Portland without hitting a Thai restaurant, but quite often people don’t have the time or resources to find (let alone swing) a dead cat for the sake of choosing a spot to eat. So, in order to save you the hassle–and the cleanup–we’ve compiled this handy list of […]

Eleni’s Philoxenia 112 NW 9th 227-2158 Eleni’s Estiatorio 7712 SE 13th Ave 230-2165 Homer crafted two enormous and magnificent epic poems, The Odyssey and The Iliad. Likewise, Eleni’s has created their own Greek masterpieces, in the form of two restaurants, which share a similar menu as exhaustive as The Odyssey‘s list of characters. For those […]

I pride myself on being a good entertainer. When friends come to town, I make sure they see the most of Portland, so they can tell all their buddies how cool the city is and what an exciting life I have. Of course most of my entertaining has to do with drinking and eating, so […]

Recently, I heard on the news that the FDA is planning on revising the food pyramid. You know, that familiar triangle that tells you that you can eat a ton of carbs and feel just fine about it. Well, pretty soon they’re going to turn around and tell you not to eat carbs, and instead, […]

Between eating organic produce, natural beef, cutting back on carbs, and ordering sweatshop free T-shirts, all while buying products from local small businesses and donating to the Human Rights Coalition, I simply haven’t had time for “fair trade.” In fact, I’ve never really even had a clear sense of what “fair trade” means–other than it’s […]

It’s always been my belief that a little “hair of the dog” is the only real cure for a hangover. Of course there’s also strenuous exercise, but involving myself in that reminds me too much of the book Drinking: A Love Story, about some lonely lady who hid liquor bottles in the back of the […]

Smart Monkey Foods smartmonkeyfoods.com 236-7878 Ani Phyo, co-owner of Smart Monkey Foods, is the perfect spokesmodel for the raw and living foods movement; she’s intelligent, confident, friendly, athletic, and absolutely stunning. She is exactly who should be pushing foods that are claiming to be “anti-aging.” Listening to Ani and partner Ede Schweizer’s story of how […]