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Light Showers in a Drought of News

Imbibe Magazine was recognized with an Eddie Award for Best Epicurean Magazine on September 23 at Folio Magazine’s annual awards gala in New York City. Imbibe also received an Ozzie Award for Best Use of Photography in its July/August 2006 issue, and last May, the magazine received a 2007 Maggie Award for Best Special Interest Magazine. NW Hayden Enterprises is
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I couldn’t pass this one up…

Today in my email from Amazon.com: The Food Snob’s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge David Kamp Price: $10.36 Release Date: October 9, 2007 Book Description Food Snob n: reference term for the sort of food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these
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I wasn’t going to mention it…

Updated 10:00pm. Portland gets so much attention from the mainstream media these days, I wasn’t even going to mention the article in the NY Times today. However, the emails started rolling in yesterday afternoon, and by the time I got up this morning, I had over 25, so people must be interested. Yes, we were mentioned a little bit in
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Vindalho

Vindalho- vin-dah-loo’ – Indian (from Portuguese vinha d’alhos: vin(wine) alho (garlic): fish, vegetables, or meat (most commonly chicken or lamb) prepared in the Goan style, with vinegar, garlic, sometimes potatoes, and tomatoes in a spicy curry. Vindalho was opened in 2005 by David Machado, owner of Café Lauro a few miles east on Division. David Anderson, formerly from Lauro, moved
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We All Scream: More Ice Cream in Portland!

Note: Both of these businesses have now closed. I recently commented, at length, about the absence of homemade ice cream in Portland. Apparently, somebody was paying attention. Some bodies, to be precise. Open just over 2 weeks, Little Red Bike Café is not only a super-duper cute and much-needed addition to N. Lombard Street. They also make great-looking (I haven’t
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Alameda Cafe, meet Fife

Confirmation from our fine readers of a joint venture between Alameda Cafe and Fife. averilpdx Yes, it’s true. It will be a prepared food place, which the neighborhood def. needs. It will be in the space where that small toy store used to be (right near the frame shop and Pizzicato). I walked by one day and saw the chef
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Stumptown in NY Times, Screw Caps Fool Consumers

Glowing article on Stumptown Coffee in the NY Times food section this week. Titled To Burundi and Beyond for Coffee’s Holy Grail, the article talks about Duane Sorenson’s pursuit of the perfect bean: But Mr. Sorenson and a few like-minded coffee hunters around the country will go almost anywhere, do almost anything and pay almost any price in pursuit of
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