These are the eggs that got me started on my fresh egg quest , and they're featured in today's Market Watch column on the Fairview ...

You know how just last month I was raving in a post about a Puerto Rican pork dish that we made after seeing it in Mark Bittman's NYT ...

You know how it is. I didn't want to get my hopes up because I'd been disappointed before. I'd read a few things, heard a littl...

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Ever since the tooth fairy...heck, even since Santa Claus, I've wanted to meet one of these Good Fairies in person. And then, yesterday ...

These Taste of the Nation folks have got it figured out, don't they? Especially here in Portland , where food is practically a way of l...

My Market Watch column in this week's FoodDay visits the Hillsdale Farmers' Market , one of my very favorites for its vendors, its ...

I've always found anger (or, to put it more nicely, extreme annoyance) to be a great motivator. This blog wouldn't exist if I hadn...

Those of you who read the Oregonian's Homes & Gardens NW section have no doubt read Vern Nelson's column about edible landscap...

Hummus, in my view, is a much-maligned quantity. It was the barely edible, dry stuff you brought to parties in college because it was ...

Those of us of a certain age know Southie as an area of Boston that exploded in rioting by working class whites over the busing of black stu...

I can't look away from a good duke-it-out, winner-takes-all, side-by-side comparison story. Whether it's food or cars or shoes, I h...

"I'm going to give you a generalized genetic breeding program for the future of agriculture. Step one: Save seeds from your favori...

Drink some amazing beer and honor the memory of Michael Jackson (the beer writer, not the freak show) at the 3rd Annual FredFest , this yea...

I was introduced to this short-lived spring green by my in-laws, former farmers in the tiny town of Houlton, Maine, often known as the cold...

Even though the experts say to hold off just a bit longer before you dig into your garden (something about the microbes getting disturbed to...

I'm so lucky to be able to scour the bounty of our farmers' markets for what I think is some of the freshest, best-grown produce in...

Now that the city's farmers' markets are starting to open for the season, it's time for the Market Watch column to gear up for a...

Do you have friends who are simultaneously working 60 hours a week, raising young children and remodeling their homes themselves? And they m...

Sometimes proximity is destiny. The other day a friend and I were in the vicinity of my brother's wine shop in Sellwood when we were at...

But whether it loves me, well, that's hard to say. I don't even need the caffeine, really, just the smell, the warmth, that slightly...

It's no surprise that we're still reliving, if only virtually, our vacation to Mazatlan, considering the cold weather that's bee...

I hate concerts at arena-type venues. The seats I can afford are usually in the nose-bleed section, which means you don't so much listen...