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Gourmet Magazine, R.I.P.

October 5, 2009 by Nancy Rommelmann  
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Just received an email from a friend who works at a Conde Nast publication, saying, “I had to read this three times to make sure I was still employed,” referring to the memo, released this morning, saying the company is ceasing three of its publications, including Gourmet. I will wager everyone over a certain age who cooks has a Gourmet
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History, Trade, Commerce, Warfare: “In the Center” with Dave Machado

May 4, 2009 by Nancy Rommelmann  
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Nel Centro, Dave Machado’s latest venture, is a hard-hat-only area in late March. Standing amid buckets of grout and workers using acetylene torches, Machado explains how he came to open his third Portland restaurant in the eight-thousand-square-foot space on the ground floor of the Hotel Modera. “You remember what this place was, that skuzzy Days Inn bar?” he asks. I
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Alu Wine Bar and Lounge

February 17, 2008 by Nancy Rommelmann  
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Note: This establishment has opened under new owners. See the website for more details. “When it Alu going to open?” my husband asked last week, of the sliver of a building on NE Martin Luther King Blvd. just south of Stanton St., which seemed months under construction. Through the grapevine, I already knew the chef was Sandro Di Giovani, formerly
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Monday Interview: Heidi Yorkshire

April 2, 2007 by Nancy Rommelmann  
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For more than twenty years, Heidi Yorkshire has written about food, as the author of several books; a travel writer for Bon Appetit and other publications; a longtime wine columnist for the Oregonian, and, most recently, as Willamette Week’s lead food critic. Tart and opinionated, with an unmistakable voice, Yorkshire is known to straight shoot in her reviews, something that
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Monday Interview: Morgan Brownlow

February 25, 2007 by Nancy Rommelmann  
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Since returning to Portland in 2002, Morgan Brownlow has seen his star rise higher, faster, than any local chef in recent memory. After two years with Ripe and Family Supper, he became partner and founding chef at Clarklewis, which won the Oregonian’s Restaurant of the Year for 2004, barely three months after it opened. More, according to his peers, when
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Monday Interview: Troy MacClarty

February 19, 2007 by Nancy Rommelmann  
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After training at the Culinary Institute of America, and spending four years at Chez Panisse, Troy MacLarty landed in Portland, as chef of Family Supper, a job he left in late 2005. After stints at Simpatica and Saucebox, in November 2006, he took over as chef at Lovely Hula Hands, when it debuted at its new North Mississippi location. As
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Duck, Duck, Goose – Foie Gras Wars Continues

November 16, 2006 by Nancy Rommelmann  
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Anyone who eats and reads—and I dearly hope that’s everyone here, now—has gotten wind of the foie gras wars. I am not going to write the entire history of what’s happened in the past twelve months, but here’s the bulleted version: • Chicago’s City Council bans foie gras in local restaurants. Angry chefs sue. Oregon, as well as New York,
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