Leading up to the holiday season, I've been contemplating the way we celebrate and, particularly, about the way we buy. Since gift-givin...

Let's just say it was within an hour of Portland. On a mountain. At an undisclosed location. And yes, if I told you where it was I'...

Wails of desperation are heard whenever the subject of Chinese food comes up. "Why doesn't Portland have just one good Chinese res...

I'd be a terrible restaurant critic. First off, I don't know enough about the finer points of food, like the difference between roui...

DIY, as in Do It Yourself, has been the new black here in the Northwest since waaaaaaay before the current economic climate had folks puttin...

My pet peeve when it comes to wait staff in restaurants, the thing that makes my skin prickle with irritation? It's when a staff person...

The boundless energy of some of my women farmer friends puts my lazybones writer gig to shame (as I sit here in my bathrobe typing away). I...

Food Dude, Portland food blogger and man of mystery, recently wrote about an article in the Washington Post reporting that "the influ...

There are few regions in the world that are as up on carbohydrates as the Mediterranean. But look what it's got to work with: rice, past...

Consider, for a moment, the humble celery root. The mind is boggled, for starters, at the sheer temerity (or was it stupidity?) of the first...

It's certainly happened to me. We'll go over to a friend's home, as once happened, and she'll serve polenta with a mushroom...

Two newcomers are slugging it out for Portland's sandwich crown on the city's east side. In one corner, the rightfully raved Bunk , ...

Farah Ramchandani hopped in her utility tractor and tooled down one of the long, grassy aisles on her 12 acres of kiwi berry vines, picking ...

I can be walking down the street and stop dead in my tracks when a a certain smell wafts by, struck by a long-lost memory from childhood or ...

Goodness, that is. Full of meaty goodness. With plenty of pork and salt. Heck, even the potato salad has bacon in it. The red beans and dir...

I looked in our freezer yesterday and was astonished to see how much I'd managed to squirrel away over the summer, from berries to rhub...

It's the reason that we humans keep journals and diaries. To write down the details of our lives so that we (or our children or whomever...

I've always fantasized about being on the inside, one of the few to know about a particular place where no sign marks its existence, a ...