Food + Culture

When our convoluted national supply chains broke down during COVID-19 and meatpacking facilities shuttered due to outbreaks, The Redd on...

I wrote this feature about Portland-based startup MilkRun for Businessweek's food issue.  Julia Niiro on her farm in Canby, Oregon When...

I've long been intrigued by people who have unconventional jobs. You know, the guy who makes robotic dinosaur models for museums , or the duo who composes the music for the Daily podcast. So it was fitting when my Inc. editors gave me a new column: Who Does That?  My first subject, in the May/ June 2020 issue, is none other than Tyler Malek, the flavor whiz at Salt & Straw. (If you're not familiar with Salt & Straw, it's the Portland-based ice-cream company known for flavo

I wrote this story for Reasons to be Cheerful, David Byrne's new online magazine.  As fake meat floods the market, some fast-food joints...

I wrote this story for Civil Eats.  Chef Michael Symon, left; Rucker's radicchio salad and pork chops with kumkquats, center, with...

Farm Spirit , a high-end vegan restaurant in Portland, Oregon, was founded by chef Aaron Adams in 2015. Its mission—in addition to...

(This story originally appeared on Civil Eats on Feb. 10th, 2020.)   On a recent Monday night, Jacobsen Valentine stood before a...

This story first appeared on Civil Eats on Dec. 20, 2019. Forty-two years ago, when Seth Tibbott was 26, he visited a hippie commune in...

This story on the evolution of Heath Ceramics appears in the July/August issue of Inc. Mention Heath Ceramics  to design nerds or  high-end restaurateurs , and chances are they'll fawn endlessly over its retro, midcentury tile or brightly glazed stoneware. Heath devotees are nothing new: Since visionary ceramicist Edith Heath and her husband started the company in 1948, enthusiasts have included architect Frank Lloyd Wright and chef Alice Waters. Yet the company likely woul

I live just an hour from the glorious Columbia Gorge, and whenever I go there to hike or taste wine, I take mental notes of all the new...

Cathy Whims has been resurrecting the classic Italian Maialata celebration in the Willamette Valley for the past 7 years. I wrote about...

I got to profile Bertony Faustin , a fantastic winemaker here in Oregon, for the Makers issue of Food & Wine . See below for the full...

Kevin Cavenaugh's Fair-Haired Dumbbell looks like the kind of kinetic building you'd see in Barcelona or New York, and it's been...

Love the Wild's clever packaging. The delicious sauces are frozen in the shape of hearts.  I must admit: as an Oregonian who has subscribed to a wild salmon share for the last 3 years, I'm not a fan of the idea of farmed fish. I had this naive and outdated notion that all fish farms are crowded, dismal places, teeming with sea louse. In 2010, I had read in Paul Greenberg's book  Four Fish, The Future of the Last Wild Food that farmed salmon had a terrible feed-to-conversion

I wrote about Ben Jacobsen and his Oregon-harvested artisanal sea salt for Inc.'s May issue .  Netarts Bay, a protected estuary on the Oregon Coast, is an ideal spot to harvest salt.                While attending business school  in Copenhagen in 2004, Ben Jacobsen fell in love with Maldon sea salt, the flaky finishing salt prized by chefs. Returning to the United States--landing in  Portland, Oregon --he was shocked to find that no one here was harvesting anything like that

I wrote about mead for the April issue of Food & Wine.  I'd always thought of mead, the ancient alcoholic beverage made from fermented...

My guide to Portland's energetic startup scene is in the March/April issue of Inc. CREDIT: Zack Spear via  Unsplash Portland, Oregon...

{This story appeared on Civil Eats in February, 2018.}  As part of a Jane Goodall-inspired community action group, " Saving Pan "...

Over a decade ago, while filmmaker Laura Dunn was making her first feature documentary, “ The Unforeseen ,” farmer and poet Wendell Berry...

{Note: this story was written before both Mario Batali and Andrew Friedman were accused of chronic sexual harassment and assault by...