Clips & Articles: Food and Wine
Below are some samples of my work. Check out hundreds more food and wine stories I have written in the archives of The Columbian newspaper at columbian.com. I have covered food and wine as well for Northwest Palate, Culinate, Explore the Pearl, Ultimate Northwest, Via, San Diego Union-Tribune, the Oregonian, among others.
I write about food science for the Institute of Food Technology during its annual convention that attracts 20,000 international scientists, marketers and executives.
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Food for the Soul
Keep winter's chill at bay with a hot bowl of soup
Originally published in Explore the Pearl, January-February 2009
How better to thaw Portland's January chill than with a bowl of belly-warming, high-flavor soup?
In the Pearl District, you can sit down to steaming bisques, broths, purees and chowders. Soups come fragrant with winter vegetables and cool-season herbs. Others are thick with beans or pumped up with peppery heat. |
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Pairings
Sushi and Asian Pear Sake
Originally published in Home & Lifestyle, The Columbian
Sushi translates roughly as “it’s sour.”
Made with vinegary rice, the artful morsels exude a tang. But because sugar, salt and, occasionally, sake, go into the rice mixture, a sweet saltiness is expressed as well. |
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Andy Zalman: Wine Steward and More
The wine steward from Higgins shares his story
Originally published in Fresh Ideas
Andy Zalman walked into Higgins’ kitchen with bottle of Warre’s Quinta do Cavadinha Vintage Port 1989.
As wine-savvy as Higgins’ staff is, several peppered Zalman with questions about the single-vineyard port. Port is not your everyday wine: Vintages occur every three years. |
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Portland's Bread Bakers
Fresh and Hot
Originally published in Fresh Ideas
Loaf after loaf, Portland bakeries’ chewy, crunchy, crusty breads continue to charm us. Several venerable bakeries, pieced together by forward-thinking family owners, have rolled dough for 25 years or more. Some, like Grand Central Bakery and NatureBake, makers of Dave’s Killer Breads, are passing their legacies on to the next generation whose members are deciding the direction of today’s next loaf. |
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