AltWeeklies Wire
The President of Beersnew
We bootlegged beer from all 50 states for the ultimate American taste-off.
Willamette Week |
Martin Cizmar |
10-10-2012 |
Food+Drink
Drip City: Everything Old is New Again in Portland's Coffee Scenenew
The history of coffee in Portland is one of constant, obsessive refinement, of obtaining better beans and pulling better shots. Staying on the jittery edge of the culture requires constant attention. Which is what we've been doing over the past several weeks. And what have we found?
Willamette Week |
Ben Waterhouse, Ruth Brown |
04-06-2011 |
Food+Drink
Grow Food, Will Travelnew
How an Oregon rancher became an alternative food taxi service.
Willamette Week |
Deeda Schroeder |
10-13-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Scot Laney
Geeky Micro-Roasters Help Portland’s Coffee Industry Grow Upnew
Coffee roasting is a post-adolescent profession that has defined its responsibilities to farmers and consumers as serious ones, but is unwilling to give up the rough ethic of fun that attracted its practitioners to coffee culture to begin with.
Willamette Week |
Hanna Neuschwander |
04-07-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Coffee Roasting, Portland
From Foraging to Fermentation, How to Hone Your Natural Instinct on a Budgetnew
You can take the man out of the wild, but you can't take the wild out of the man. Or, better said: you shouldn't.
Willamette Week |
Adrienne So |
04-01-2009 |
Food+Drink
Tags: food & drink, recession
Captured By Porches Isn't a Microbrewery, It's a Nanobrewerynew
Dylan Goldsmith, 34, is the sole employee of Captured by Porches, Oregon's smallest brewery, filling every position from owner to keg-washer.
Willamette Week |
Joseph Watts |
07-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
A Portland County Proposes Calorie Counts on Chain-Restaurant Menusnew
Portland's dual reputations as a food-lover's mecca and a bastion for progressive politics may soon be married on menus across the city.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
07-16-2008 |
Food+Drink
Portland Spends Another $119,000 to Train Baristasnew
On July 9, the City Council voted unanimously to renew a $119,000 program that seeks to make service-with-a-smile espresso jockeys out of a couple dozen "at-risk youth"--bureau-speak for troubled and/or troublemaking teens.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
07-16-2008 |
Food+Drink
Did Hannah Bea's Close Because of Gentrification?new
When the restaurant does shut down, owner Anita Smith will owe taxpayers $143,000. But don't expect contrition from Smith; she's far too angry at the Portland Development Commission and gentrification for the uncertainty she says is driving the closure.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
06-25-2008 |
Food+Drink
Two Portland Bakeries Say No Eggs, No Gluten, No Problemnew
Bread ain't just bread anymore -- especially if you're part of the city's growing legion of vegans or gluten-intolerant.
Willamette Week |
Deeda Schroeder |
06-11-2008 |
Food+Drink
Portland's Bike-based Food Businesses are Picking Up Speednew
Bicycle-based food businesses are sprouting like daisies, from a bike-based "cookie CSA" to a three-wheeled, single-origin coffee cafe.
Willamette Week |
Deeda Schroeder |
05-07-2008 |
Food+Drink
Why Wine Geeks Need to Tell Robert Parker to Cork itnew
In The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization, Alice Feiring argues that winemaking's traditional "natural" methods have largely been replaced with flavor-altering procedures to please the palate of one man: Robert Parker.
Willamette Week |
Deeda Schroeder |
05-01-2008 |
Food+Drink
Crop Dropnew
Get your greens -- before it's too late for our farmers to feed Portland's growing appetite.
Willamette Week |
Deeda Schroeder |
04-02-2008 |
Food+Drink
Lean Cuisinenew
Has Portland lost its insatiable appetite for its restaurant scene?
Willamette Week |
Byron Beck |
03-19-2008 |
Food+Drink
Fool's Goldnew
This St. Paddy's Day, do not fear the near-beer.
Willamette Week |
Anna Hirsch |
03-12-2008 |
Food+Drink
