Yes, you read that right. And here I thought I was getting all crazy creative by finally making nocino , a walnut liqueur made from green...

Summer means that cooking moves outdoors, with electricity replaced by fire. Around here we're putting not just steaks and chickens o...

As organic farmers, contributor Anthony Boutard and his wife, Carol, are caretakers of the 144 acres of land that comprises Ayers Creek ...

I will often begin dinners, not with the holding of hands and the saying of grace, asking the deity to please sprinkle holy fairy dust ov...

Call me slow, unobservant or simply (and perhaps more accurately) in denial, but I just realized a few months ago, after decades of marri...

Growing up outside the Willamette Valley in Eastern and Central Oregon meant my parents piled the kids in the station wagon—I preferred t...

Sully the Chester blackberry's reputation and you should expect a thorough tongue-lashing from contributor Anthony Boutard of Ayers C...

It was the Fourth of July and at 10 o'clock at night it was pitch dark and instead of sounding like a war zone, with booms, cracks, f...

It was five years ago that I read Martha Holmberg's story in MIX magazine about a yearly nocino-making party in winemaker Anne Hubat...

With long-term forecasts calling for temperatures in the 80s and 90s and with no rain for the next several weeks—climate change deniers n...

Just named one of the Oregonian's top ten food carts , Burrasca is a celebration of the foods of owner Paolo Calamai's native Fl...

This post was going to be about our trip with a friend to Seattle to celebrate her birthday. Other friends were driving down from Vancouv...

Once again I will ponder the utter idiocy of growing soft, early season fruit in the Willamette Valley as I wind my way up Bald Peak on t...

I'm generally not the sort to post so-called " haul videos ," but this is one I'm particularly excited about, consideri...

In case you hadn't noticed, the latest thing on Portland's dining scene isn't spherification —using sodium alginate and calci...

I don't mean to break out the violins or start wailing "Woe is me!" here, because, when you get right down to it, we're...