Clips & Articles: Food & Wine
Check out hundreds more of my food and wine stories in the archives of The Columbian. I’ve covered food and wine as well for the former Northwest Palate, Culinate, Explore the Pearl, Ultimate Northwest, Via, San Diego Union-Tribune, the Oregonian/OregonLive, among others.
In the past I reported on food science for the Institute of Food Technology during its annual convention that attracts 20,000 international scientists, marketers and executives.
Food and art, art and food
"Food can be art. It can be messy, sensual, sexual, intoxicating and comforting. Inspired. Much like art … it should dance in your memory."
Originally Published in Oregon ArtsWatch May 2020
The meaning of art has been fiercely debated and never settled.
American photographer Norman Mauskopf gave the definition a whirl when recently judging portraits for Santa Fe Photographic. For anything to be art, there must be some element of tragedy, comedy, beauty, irony, or mystery. Read More
Plating Perfection
Whistler's much lauded James Walt and other accomplished British Columbia chefs let Sooke Harbour House's tutelage stay under their cooking skins. Check it out Northwest Palate's Spring 2011 issue, pages 44-47. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More