Five Portland Restaurants Covered by Oprah Magazine
I wondered why readers from Oprah’s domain was on the site over the summer, and now I know. A reader alerted me they were doing a roundup of restaurants for their November issue.
Since buying Oprah Magazine was a direct assault on my masculinity, I hoped to find the article online, but it isn’t there yet. Instead, I threw myself on the grenade by going to the bookstore and buying a copy – in a brown paper bag of course. You didn’t really think I’d get on MAX with a copy of it in a clear bag did you? I was hoping to get something manly to put over it, like Guns and Ammo, but they didn’t have anything like that. The whole experience reminded me of buying my first Playboy sooo many years ago. Anyway, on to the article.
Interestingly enough, Seattle was passed over. Five Portland restaurants were mentioned: Roux as “The Cool Place”, Paley’s as the “Foodie’s Choice”, Wildwood for “Local Flavor”, Por Que No as “Best Bargain”, and Park Kitchen for “Most Creative Chef”.
I’m not going to editorialize here; I’ll let you all do that. In the meantime I’m learning the 20-Minute Rule for Better Sex, How to Complain at a Restaurant, and 7 Ways to Get a Grip on Mindless Munching. Fortunately, I have a nice bag of Trader Joe’s cashews to eat while I’m reading.
ChocoGirl says
Portland Picks beat The O on Cacao — see here:
http://www.portlandpicks.com/newsletter/140.php
Okay, it was the same day…but PP is posted to their website on Thursday evenings.
pollo elastico says
Food Dude – I wanted to email you directly on this, but I tried to hit your email page and it’s coming up blank.
Re: Dreamhost. Not only do they throttle you per hour, they throttle you @20 emails per SMTP/phpmail session.
I was able to open a trouble ticket and compel them to relax this throttle a bit for a client of mine, though. You might want to try this route.
But this policy does suck – they are erroring on the side of spam prevention but it does hurt.
Ideally, the email mechanism could be customized to queue up all the emails, and batch them out 20 per every 7 minutes. I am using some newsletter software for a couple clients that have these features built into the administrative backend. If I knew PHP better, I’d write it myself.
Perhaps I can get a friend/co-worker to help.
-s says
Wow, I didn’t know that about Dreamhost, though I can’t say I generate a whole lot of email so I’ve never tested the limit.
Cacao sounds great — I need to check it out (as well as finally get to Sahagun, I’m so behind on these things.)
And we all know you bought it for the articles :)
FoodGroupie says
Oprah? Oprah?
That image of her as a caring woman is just a facade.