Say Cheese

This weekend brought one of the cheesiest events of the year: the American Cheese Society Competition Awards and Festival of Cheese, aka, Cheese-a-topia.  This annual event is a turophile’s dream which includes tastings, cheese making classes, guest speakers and a judging competition that is like the Oscars of Cheese for American cheesemakers. This year, the cheeses [...]

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8/28/10 Chef in the Market Demo: Diana Stobo, Cookbook Author

August 28, 2010 Chef in the Market Demonstration by: Diana Stobo, Author, Get Naked Fast: A Guide to Stripping Away the Foods that Weigh you Down Recipes: Popeyes Passion  Serves 1 This is an all-time favorite power-packed smoothie.  A muscle building plant protein, spinach also has high levels of calcium, iron, vitamins A, C, & [...]

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Weekly Market Edition – True Cost of Egg Edition

Last year my colleague, Mona Johnson, wrote an article explaining why eggs at Farmers Markets cost more than they do in the grocery store and explained that in some cases they cost more to produce and distribute them than the farmer gets for them. It was a sound piece of reasoning, delivered with direct, intelligent [...]

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Wag v. Goliath

1000x smaller is 1000x better.

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Zucchini Overload

If you found a big brown bag of garden zucchini on your doorstep, I didn’t do it. Truth is, I’ve been hording all of my zucchini like Halloween candy, squirreling it away into the corners of my tiny, yellow kitchen. I didn’t even give any away to the friends who took care of my cats [...]

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8/21/2010 Chef in the Market demo: David Padberg, Park Kitchen

August 21, 2010 Chef in the Market demonstration by: David Padberg, Park Kitchen Two Ways with Watermelon Salad A simple slice of watermelon is a refreshing part of many a summer dinner party or barbeque. Here are two simple ways to bring your watermelon into the meal instead of just having a wedge for dessert [...]

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Weekly Market Report – Missed Last Week Edition

Last week was crazy with the heat – I’d love to tell you the high temperatures broke the internets and left me unable to publish a report but I just didn’t budget my time accordingly. Right now, there isn’t enough time to write about everything available at our 6 Markets. Tomatoes, a subject we covered [...]

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5 Questions For Arthur Allen

Arthur Allen traveled the world tracking, researching and tasting the enigmatic tomato: A botanical fruit that is bought, sold and cooked as vegetable. His book about this Tomatoquest, Ripe, is so much more than Eat, Love, Pomodoro – it is outward looking – touching on biology, anthropology, genetics, economics, history, evolution all the while being [...]

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Petunia’s Blossom

Lisa Clark claims cookie dough and homemade pizza were the first foods she ate on this earth, possibly within moments of her birth. Hyperbolic? Maybe, but also a fitting answer from a lifelong Portlander who grew up as part of a large Italian Family that “lived to cook and loved to eat”. After a few [...]

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8/7/2010 Chef in the Market demo: Matt Christianson, Urban Farmer

August 7, 2010 Chef in the Market demonstration by Matt Christianson, Urban Farmer Frogmore Stew Serves 8  (Because any number less isn’t a party) Ingredients: For the broth: 2ea  22oz bottles beer  # 4fromUpright brewery 10 quarts water Rind of 2 oranges, 2 lemons 1 Tablespoon Black pepper Kosher salt 10 sprigs thyme 2ea bay [...]

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