This sounds pretty great, so I thought I’d post it here. The Meadow, opened another salt and chocolate shop over on NW 23rd last year. Now they are opening all 500 chocolate bars for tasting, beginning July 1st.… Read the rest
Mark Bitterman
The Meadow: Singing the Praises of Salt
“Everyone’s Lives Would Be So Much Better If They Just Used The Right Salt.”
Mark Bitterman, Local Selmelier
A wonderful thing about Portland is our growing community of small specialty food purveyors. Many of these are based on single obsessions: the perfect latte with foam so pretty and detailed that pictures of it could be framed and hung in a gallery, tiny sophisticated graphic chocolates that are handled more like fine jewels than simple candy store confections, or a pizzeria where if you dare even mutter the words “I’d like Canadian Bacon and Pineapple on that,” you will be given a look so cold it could turn a fresh and hot bubbling pie into a frozen one.… Read the rest
Portland Meadow Salts in the NY Times
There is a nice mention of The Meadow in the Sunday NY Times. Foremost, the gourmet store is well-known for its vast selection of salt. The Bitterman’s opened their first store on Mississippi Avenue in Portland in 2000 and expanded to New York City about a year ago.… Read the rest
Our Portland Interview Archive
Interviews? We have a ton of them!
Have you checked out the interviews on this website? There are pages of them done by multiple writers. We have done many interviews over the years with chefs, restaurant owners, cooks and more, the result is an honest dialog with people in the food industry.… Read the rest
Kim Boyce and Mark Bitterman Win James Beard Author Awards
Kim Boyce, the Portland author behind “Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain Flours“, has won the 2011 James Beard book award for Baking and Desserts. Kim is quickly building a following since moving here in July and is eventually planning to open Bakeshop Bakery.… Read the rest