Portland
| August 10 2010
For anyone who loves to cook, walking into Portland’s Spice & Tea Exchange is like being a kid a candy store. Tantalizing, colorful displays of a huge variety of spices, salts, rubs, sugars and more line the shelves, ideas for new recipes at every turn—it’s a cook's dream store.
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| Photo: Julie Blakley |
| August 04 2010
On a recent trip to the San Francisco Bay Area, I was intrigued to see that a new phenomenon in the wine industry had gripped the city. Located in close proximity to arguably the country's most famous wine country (yes, Napa), urban wineries had taken root within the confines of San Francisco and the industrial areas in the East Bay (read more about the urban winery scene there in SF’s Urban Wineries: Bright Bottles, Big City).
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| Photo: Julie Blakley |
