Fooku Finalists
#3 Is the Winner, with 27% of the votes. All of the others were popular, and ran a close race! #3, please contact me about getting your gift certificate! Here are the finalists in the fooku contest, as per our judges. Some of the entries were eliminated because they didn’t even come close to the proper meter or 5-7-5. Please
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Interview: Adam Sappington
April 27, 2007 by Nino Marchetti
Filed under Interviews
Chef Adam Sappington, fresh off of a 11-year culinary tour of duty at Wildwood Restaurant and Bar, is back in the food saddle again as he opens The Country Cat Dinner House and Bar at 7937 Southeast Stark – on the corner of Southeast Stark Street and Southeast 80th – in the east of Mount Tabor Montavilla neighborhood. The Country
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Food News n’Snooze
April 26, 2007 by Cuisine Bonne Femme
Filed under News/Discussion
From Cuisine Bonne Femme: Do you see Marsee? Rumor has it that the long struggling Marsee Bakery with locations on NW 23rd, NE Broadway and a couple other places (do they have many locations left?) is selling out (again). Word on the street is Three Lions is taking over the NW 23rd location, so don’t expect the bagels or croissants
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Habibi
April 25, 2007 by KM
Filed under Other Reviews
Until fairly recently, the Long Island Pizzaria (sic) on SW Morrison was a popular if dingy dive for young or otherwise thrifty people hungry for New York style pie heavy on the tomato, cheese and oil. The surprise inside was that the Lebanese couple running the place also offered a short but essential list of Middle Eastern staples, served with
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Dueling Sommeliers: Take One
April 23, 2007 by Marshall Manning
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By Marshall and Carolyn Manning Here they are, Portland. A veritable pantheon of viniculture mastery … your very own IRON SOMMELIERS: Erica Landon, Sommelier at ten 01 Jamie Garrett, Sommelier at Bluehour Ken Collura, Sommelier at Andina Jeff Groh, Sommelier at the Heathman Restaurant And on April 13th, 2007, these masters of wine sat back and watched a private dining
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Dribs and Drabs
April 20, 2007 by Food Dude
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Those of you who have been following the dog and cat poisoning, may be dismayed by todays revelation that the pet food tainting may have been intentional. Apparently, the plastics chemical can make feed appear more protein-rich, so they get more money for it. Additionally, in California, state agriculture officials placed a hog farm under quarantine after melamine was found
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We’re Number One! (And real news)
April 18, 2007 by Food Dude
Filed under News/Discussion
The Food Network just held their first, and hopefully last, awards show. What a horrible mess. I think so little of this type of thing, I wasn’t’ even going to lower myself to mentioning the awards, but then I saw the show, and like a rubbernecker at a particularly horrible car crash, I had to look. Here are the awards
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