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 to the bounty that is our amazing food scene. This new, second edition expands on it, with over thirty new full listings, 150 – Read more…
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 – Read more…
Book Review – The Toro Bravo Cookbook
Over the last few years, it seems like more and more chefs feel the need to add long bios showing the highs and lows of their life, before recounting their success opening a restaurant, before they get to the parade of recipes. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t; mostly it depends on how interested – Read more…
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 – Read more…
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 – Read more…
Book Review – The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home
When I first started flipping though “The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home” by local authors Michael Zusman and Nick Zukin, I was a bit puzzled. It’s not a slick book. Yes, there are glossy photographs, but they aren’t impossibly perfect as are those in many books these days. There is no dust jacket, and the – Read more…
Review: “How to Cook Everything – iPad Edition”
For a Last Minute Gift – “How to Cook Everything – iPad” The How to Cook Everything iPhone/iPad application, is based on the best-selling book by Mark Bittman. I’ve seen it advertised on Culinate.com for ages, but haven’t gotten a chance to try it until recently. From the opening screen, I was impressed: The layout – Read more…
The Professional Chef – iPad Version
The Professional Chef, from The Culinary Institute of America, is a classic kitchen reference. You can find any basic cooking technique within its pages. As I started working, it was one of the first cookbooks I purchased. Along with better layout, the new ninth edition of the book features more detailed techniques for novice cooks, and lots – Read more…