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Bread + Cheese | Taste on 23rd

March 29, 2012
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I recently attended a wine-tasting event at Taste on 23rd in NW Portland. The wine bar and bottle shop featured wines from French winemaker, Gregoire Pissot. The event was awesome, and the shop has become one of my favorite places to enjoy a glass of wine. There’s a certain feeling of walking into a friend’s [...]

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Portland Meetup with Cave de Lugny Winemaker Gregoire Pissot

March 22, 2012

Hey Portland! Wanna get your eat and drink on tonight? For FREE? Taste on 23rd is hosting a wine + food event in their adorable NW space this evening. Join Cave de Lugny winemaker Gregoire Pissot, for an evening of wine and food pairings. Food like cheese. Because cheese and wine pair nicely together. Tweet [...]

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Dining Out: Instagram-Style

March 13, 2012

This poor, poor neglected food blog. What’s that saying about how the cobbler’s kids have no shoes? I’ve been so busy lately working on other people’s blogs, consulting, and creating new products that this sweet little food blog of mine has been sadly neglected. This is just a quick little wave and “I’m still here!” [...]

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Recent Farmers’ Market Finds

January 25, 2012
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The winter farmers’ market here in Portland is in full swing, and I found a couple of new veggies and some old favorites on the day that it opened. Kale Kale is my favorite vegetable. Maybe just for right now, maybe for all time, I’m not sure. But it’s so good, and so easy. I’m [...]

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iDine Rewards Program + Gift Card Giveaway

November 1, 2011

Update: We have a winner! The $20 AmEx card goes to to Jen of NiferMusings – congrats, Jen! I love food, and I love cooking. In fact, my boyfriend and I refer to our kitchen as “The Lab,” because of all of the experimental culinarying that goes on in there. On the flip side, I [...]

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Street Food Friday | Savor Soup

October 28, 2011

Improve your cooking skills with our magazines. It’s soup weather, isn’t it? I mean, maybe not if you live in Houston or some of those other places down south that are boasting 80+ degrees in October, but if you’re where I’m at — the Pacific Northwest — then it is SO soup weather. Savor Soup [...]

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Coffee, Croissants, and the Realization That I Belong in a French Cafe

October 24, 2011
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It hit me sometime mid-breakfast Sunday morning, that I have a thing for French-style bars and restaurants. Bakeries, Bistros, and Brasseries, I love them all. Butter (REAL butter), bread, and Burgundies. Baguettes, Bordeauxs, and [Carla] Bruni. Huh. Why does everything I love about my France start with the letter ‘B’? Oh! Except Croissants! And coffee. [...]

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The Wedge PDX | Portland Celebrates Cheese

October 14, 2011

When I was growing up, I didn’t eat a lot of cheese. It’s not so much that I didn’t like it; honestly, I was mostly indifferent to it. That was probably because the extent of my cheese consumption was a slice of Kraft American tossed onto a sandwich or a cheeseburger here and there. Maybe [...]

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DishCrawl PDX – NE Alberta

October 9, 2011

Great deals on nursing scrubs, shop us today! “It’s like a pub crawl, but with food!” That’s one way to describe Portland’s newest weeknight food event. Here are a few others: “Eat dinner at four restaurants with forty of your new best friends.” “Can’t pick just one restaurant for dinner tonight? Don’t! Pick FOUR instead!” [...]

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The Wedge Cheese Event, October 8 | Portland, OR

October 3, 2011

This past Thursday I had the most delicious privilege of sampling some of the finest Oregon cheeses, paired with fresh ingredients and served up in an amazing lunch menu. The event was a sneak peek and fun little meet-and-greet with some of the cheese-makers who are going to be at this weekend’s premier cheese event, [...]

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