With the first edition of the Food Lover’s Guide to Portland, writer Liz Crain filled a need, pulling together a list of the best food purveyors in Portland and giving gentle reminders of the bounty that is our amazing food scene. This new, second edition expands on it, with over thirty new full listings, 150 new businesses, a food cart chapter by Brett Burnmeister of Food … [Read more...] about Book Review: Food Lover’s Guide to Portland 2nd Edition
Authors / Book Reviews
Every so often we'll do an interview with an author or even review a book. You'll find those articles here.
Book Review: Breakfast in Bridgetown 3rd Edition
In 2006, Paul Gerald contacted me, asking if I would like to run some reviews he had written about places to eat breakfast in Portland. I was dubious, as I frequently get approached by folks with great ideas that they never follow up on, people with personal agendas, and quite a few who have a sense of taste that varies greatly from mine. However, I took a look, enjoyed the … [Read more...] about Book Review: Breakfast in Bridgetown 3rd Edition
Book Review – The Toro Bravo Cookbook
The Toro Bravo Cookbook is more than recipes from one of Portland, Oregon's favorite restaurants. The first 92 pages are a biography. You’ll hear of Gorham’s family life, early jobs, and his travels across the United States, and finally of his landing in Oregon and the circumstances which brought him to Simpatica, Vivandi, and Toro Bravo.If you are a fan Toro Bravo … [Read more...] about Book Review – The Toro Bravo Cookbook
Book Review: The Way We Ate: 100 Chefs Celebrate a Century at the American Table
My first subscription to a food magazine (1972) wasn't Gourmet, but of a publication called 'Sphere' which went on to be Cuisine. I didn't know it was a Betty Crocker magazine at the time, I only knew that it offered great recipes, taking me to countries I could only dream of at the time. Reading this cookbook was a lovely reminder of the many recipes shared, dinner with … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Way We Ate: 100 Chefs Celebrate a Century at the American Table
Book Review: Le Pigeon – Cooking at the Dirty Bird
Cookbooks tend to fall into one of two categories. The first is the coffee table variety - pretty to look at and read, but not all that practical. French Laundry cookbook, I'm looking at you - not many people are going to spend two days making a Caesar salad. On the other side are the more frequently used practical books; the ones that are typically splattered with food after a … [Read more...] about Book Review: Le Pigeon – Cooking at the Dirty Bird