A review of Olympia Provisions, By Roger Porter
Like impatient readers who sneak a look at the last page of a novel, I have a tendency to scan the dessert selections on a menu before checking out anything else.… Read the rest
Roger Porter is a Professor of English at Reed College. He is the co-author of "A Food Lover's Companion to Portland," of "Self-Same
Songs: Autobiographical Performances and Reflections," and the forthcoming "Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers" (Cornell University Press). He has been a food writer and restaurant critic for Willamette Week and The Oregonian for 20 years, and was nominated for a James Beard award for best restaurant reviewing in the U.S.
By Roger Porter Last Update January 19, 2018
A review of Olympia Provisions, By Roger Porter
Like impatient readers who sneak a look at the last page of a novel, I have a tendency to scan the dessert selections on a menu before checking out anything else.… Read the rest
By Roger Porter Last Update January 18, 2018
Every so often a dish comes along so transcendent that even though you inevitably expect great things from the restaurant the preparation looms as a huge surprise, a boon to everything that precedes and follows.… Read the rest
By Roger Porter Last Update April 30, 2019
Liberté, Egalité, Gastromie! The French Revolution has come to town, and the only guillotine in sight is a chef’s cleaver hacking at a pig.… Read the rest
By Roger Porter Last Update January 15, 2018
by Roger Porter
You hear all the time that one of the lamentable gaps in Portland’s culinary scene is the absence of great Chinese restaurants.… Read the rest
By Roger Porter Last Update May 20, 2016
10/17/2012 – This restaurant is now closed.
There’s a wonderful Yiddish word, “ongepotchket.” meaning something that is excessive or overly baroque. In his “relaxed lexicon” of Yiddish, Leo Rosten tells a joke which perfectly illustrates the word.… Read the rest