{"id":15295,"date":"2017-09-25T13:36:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T20:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/?p=15295"},"modified":"2017-09-25T20:07:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T03:07:19","slug":"best-of-feast-portland-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/best-of-feast-portland-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"No FOMO! Here’s the Best of Feast Portland 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feast Portland 2017<\/a> featured 134 chefs, 31 wineries, 15 breweries, 11 artisans, and 12 distilleries, that delivered the delicious to nearly 18,000 attendees. Over the course of 4 days, I caught up with old friends and ate my way through the amazing Bon Appetit Hot 10 dinner, the Grand Tastings, Smoked and Sunday’s Brunch Village. As they say, 4 days to Feast, 361 days to recover. So what did you miss?<\/p>\n

The highlights from this year’s Grand Tasting included more substantial bites from Chef Earl Ninsom (Langbaan,<\/a> PaaDee<\/a>) with his Coppa with Seasonal Fruit and Papaya Salad, and Los Angeles Chef Ray Garcia (Broken Spanish<\/a>) Charred Brussels Sprouts, Mole Blanco, Habanero and Peanuts. The two were putting\u00a0Finex cast iron<\/a> to work in Williams Sonoma’s booth at the event. Local tea purveyor Smith Teamaker brought a new ready-to-drink chai to sample and spotlighted their Arbequina Oolong, a Feast special collaboration<\/a> tea with Chef Tom Douglas.<\/p>\n

On the sweet side, Portland’s Wailua Shave Ice<\/a> delivered two awesome flavors — triple coconut and blueberry basil. Sisters Baking Company in Edmonds<\/a> sampled their gluten-free Rain City Crunch granola bark, including an autumn appropriate Pumpkin Spice version. On the beer and wine front (and there were a lot of them), A to Z Wineworks’ new release Sparkling Ros\u00e9<\/a> was a perfect last sip of summer. \u00a0Scroll through the pics and for more tasty bites from Feast Portland’s Grand Tasting, visit our Instagram @dailywaffle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Feast Portland: Seattle Chef Renee Erickson in convo with Bon Appetit’s Andrew Knowlton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Feast Portland 2017’s Grand Tasting also had a fun series of book signings and chef Q&As with Seattle Chef Renee Erickson, Portland’s Andy Ricker and NYC’s Christina Tosi. Erickson, who owns 4 restaurants in Seattle, including Walrus and the Carpenter<\/a> and the Whale Wins<\/a>, sat down with Bon Appetit Deputy Editor Andrew Knowlton for a wide ranging Q&A from her first food memory (dungeness crab) to a Seattle must-try restaurant, other than her own (The Corson Building<\/a>). \u00a0On cookbooks, she recommended Paul Bertolli’s Cooking by Hand<\/a> and Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking<\/a> as two every cook should have on their shelf. She’s also a fan of Doritos — shh, don’t tell!<\/p>\n

My favorite event of the weekend was Smoked! Every year, chefs from Portland and around the country double-down on the cookout of the year. My best bite from Smoked! this year was a tie between Matt’s BBQ & Langbaan’s Brisket with Jungle Curry and Gregory Gourdet’s Crispy Turkey Wing with Korean Chile sauce. We also got a sneak peek at two new ice cream flavors Tillamook will be debuting in 2018 — a Pendleton Whisky Maple and a Sea Salt with Honeycomb Toffee. I’m looking to have more info on both soon.<\/p>\n