Review: Fire On The Mountain Buffalo Wings
January 30, 2006 by Michael Charles
Filed under Other Reviews
Almost ablaze, still you don’t feel the heat. Takes all you got just to stay on the beat. You say it’s a living, we all gotta eat. But you’re here alone, there’s no one to compete. If mercy’s in business, I wish it for you. More than just ashes when your dreams come true. “Fire On The Mountain” Robert Hunter/Mickey
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My Week as a Waiter
January 25, 2006 by Food Dude
Filed under News/Discussion
The NY Times food section has an excellent article today on critic Frank Bruni’s experience going from the food critic side to being a server. It is an interesting article, and gives a good perspective on what they have to go through. A highly recommended read. You need to be a member, but it is free, and sign-up just takes
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Review: Brazil Grill
January 19, 2006 by Food Dude
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Refreshed 1.10 For those who have spent time in Brazil, it has always seemed strange there is no Brazilian-style grill in Portland. Almost every major city has one, and they tend to be very popular. Also called “churrascaria” (shoo-HOSS-ka-REE-ah), these Brazilian steakhouses are a carnivore’s paradise, paying homage to the institution of the South American Gaucho. Churrasco is the cooking
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Monday Interview: Reinventing The Meal
January 18, 2006 by Michael Charles
Filed under Food Writing
Crack interview journalist, Charlie Michaels, checks in from the trenches of the Portland food world. Her report: Ever since Edward Chumleigh-Jensen-Smythe-Haskell and his wife, Tanya, exploded on the Portland dining scene a few months ago, the cognoscenti in our fair burg have been all atwitter. The reason: an exciting new definition of food is at hand. Eddie, as his friends
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Monday Interviews: Adrienne Inskeep of Siam Society
January 10, 2006 by Nancy Rommelmann
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With her pixyish hair and lithe physique, Adrienne Inskeep may look like Peter Pan, but the chef of Siam Society, the restaurant she owns with her husband, Paul Van Slyke, is absolutely grounded; by her own admission, perhaps too. “I am definitely a taskmaster, and almost to a fault,” says the 26-year-old, who since opening the Thai establishment last October
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Cheese and the Seasons
You might notice that you aren’t seeing as much local artisan cheese in stores the past few months. Winter months divulge cheese-making secrets: it’s a seasonal activity. Goat and cow milk production naturally follows seasonal cycles, waning in the fall and winter and escalating in the spring and summer after pregnancies and spring births have stimulated milk production. We tend
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Review: Simpatica Dining Hall
January 3, 2006 by Michael Charles
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As the nation roiled in torment over the Vietnam War, Vortex, the only state-sponsored rock concert ever, was envisioned in an old Portland building at the corner of Southeast 9th and Pine. After the war and Richard Nixon’s subsequent Watergate Waterloo–the time when later baby boomers were coming of age–the same building hosted the Pine Street Theater. There were no
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