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I Love the 80s: American Goulash
It's a little surprising that the wave of nostalgia that’s overtaking books and tv and toys in the last few years hasn’t made it’s way to food. Stranger Things and Strawberry Shortcake dolls and totally misguided live action remakes of 80s cartoons like Jem and the Holograms have captured our collective imagination (more or less), but that longing…
August 13, 2016
Book Reviews
IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover | Spot Review
Stunning. The signs are all there to see, but if you’re not looking, you might not notice until you’re in too deep. **ARC provided by publisher for review ** Colleen Hoover’s latest, It Ends With Us, is breathtaking, intensely personal, and brave. Other books in her catalog haven’t been afraid to take on some…
August 2, 2016
Beverages Events Wine
Feast Portland 2016: 3 New Events Just Added!
The countdown to Feast Portland 2016 is on!  If you lagged on getting tickets this year, or can't get away on Thursday or Friday, you're in luck.  Three new events were just added on Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18. Tickets are available at www.feastportland.com. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17: Cocktail Crawl: Drink Like a Pro Join Bon…
July 29, 2016
Baking Dessert Recipes
Zucchini Cake with Ginger & Hazelnuts
I'm on a bit of a zucchini kick. For a vegetable that doesn't offer a whole heck of a lot of flavor on it's own, it's turning up on our table a lot these days. There was that simple zucchini salad last week, zucchini green chile fritters for dinner last night, and then this zucchini cake.  NYTFood posted a…
July 26, 2016
Book Reviews Cooking
PURE FOOD by Kurt Beecher Dammeier |Book Review
Pure Food: A Chef’s Handbook for Eating Clean, with Healthy, Delicious Recipes by Kurt Beecher Dammeier     -- 3 and 1/2 stars **ARC provided by the publisher for review** Effort to get Americans cooking and eating clean gets a bump this week with the release of Kurt Beecher Dammeier’s latest cookbook, Pure Food. The…
July 6, 2016
Dessert Recipes
Damn, That’s Good: Simply Recipes’ Berry Cobbler
For years, I've stuck with the same cobbler recipe from America's Test Kitchen. It's basically like having to make buttermilk biscuits in addition to cutting up the fruit and letting it macerate. And while that doesn't seem like a huge amount of work, it's not like I've made that cobbler every summer. Berries are super abundant…
June 27, 2016
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