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 changing... [Read more]

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 subjects From... [Read more]

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 the September Gourmet Magazine We... [Read more]

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... [Read more]

We All Scream: More Ice Cream in Portland!

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 tasted them) breakfast and lunch sandwiches, serve... [Read more]

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 from Fife and the owner of the Alameda Cafe... [Read more]

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 the perfect... [Read more]

Sharing a Bit About Sherry

“If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sherry.” – Falstaff Sherry is truly a special product. It takes so much time, patience, and skill to make something so unique. Also, it is a product of ingenuity: the Albariza soil and maritime climate of the ‘Sherry... [Read more]

This should take you back

The menu for Blueplate this week is Back to School Specials. Reading it, propelled me back to elementary school, but I have a feeling this food is going to be a lot better than the fare my school cafeteria offered. More expensive yes, – lunch for me was .55 a day. Who’s going with me? Once mom figured out I was spending all my lunch money on candy from the Helms... [Read more]