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| June 28 2010
We recently had this article (check it out here) shot our way via @Brekenkitchen on Twitter. If you live in Portland or are visiting sometime soon, this list should provide some inspiration for choosing an outdoor dining spot. Have you got a favorite place for outdoor dining in portland? Let us know via comments below, or tweet @thelocaldish #outdoorpdx along with your response.
| June 25 2010
Recently we at TLD have been enjoying a wide variety of articles from www.gawker.com. This morning we came across one highlighting some tips for eating healthy. Enjoy the article ( http://gawker.com/5572789/ten-tips-for-healthy-eating?skyline=true&s=i ) and when you're done, we want to know what things you're doing to eat healthy this summer...or what things you're planning on doing that are decidely not healthy :).
| June 09 2010
Rayme Rossello plunked down $100,000 to buy and convert an old DHL delivery van into a decked-out mobile kitchen called Comida, equipped with a propane-powered six-burner range, an oven, a 24-inch griddle, two refrigerators and a computerized order-taking system.
She painted it bright pink, cut a window out of the side to serve freshly made Mexican dishes, slung some fuzzy dice on the mirror and began rolling the truck through the city of Boulder looking for customers. Posting her location on Facebook and Twitter, Rossello watched as crowds lined up to sample her "pollo asado" tacos and "gorditas de rajas y crema."
Read the rest: Gourmet grub going mobile in Boulder with new food trucks - Boulder Daily Camera| June 08 2010
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It was what I did to the macaroni and cheese that made me seek professional help.
My husband and I were looking for new ways to use the vegetables from our CSA—a program, short for "community supported agriculture," in which you pay in advance for a weekly box of fresh produce delivered from a local organic farm. We've been members of this particular CSA for about three years, and for the most part, we love it.
In August, we receive endless tomatoes. In June, we're invited to a farm event called "strawberry day." Every time we resubscribe, they send us a lavender sachet. But each year, toward the end of winter, I run into the Turnip Problem. Read the rest on Slate.com...
| June 08 2010
Sometimes wasting time on the internet leads to positive results - usually not, but sometimes. We hope you enjoy the result of about 30 minutes of our wasted time....
If you can make better food art, we think you should prove it. Upload a photo below and show us what you got!
| June 04 2010
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This just in from SF Gate (and, you know, everywhere else): Today is National Doughnut Day. Here's the word...
My friend Julia Park Tracey -- the local writer, former publisher of the Alameda Sun, and, by the way, a newly hatched backyard chicken farmer -- just informed me that it's National Doughnut Day today.
This is hugely exciting to me because I have a soapbox about doughnuts in California. And that is this: There aren't enough of them. Get the rest of the story here...
| June 02 2010
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Just in time for one of the best beer-drinking seasons (you know, in addition to spring, fall and winter) comes this story from Chow:
Philadelphia is arguably the biggest beer geek haven in America outside, maybe, Portland, Oregon. Belgian beer bars are so common here as to become yawn-worthy, and even blue-collar neighborhood pubs have cask ale. “We’re not a trendsetting city,” says Philadelphia Inquirer restaurant critic Craig LaBan; “however, we were on the cutting edge of the beer trend.”
As Philadelphia stands poised to hurdle into its craft beer week celebration (June 4 through 13) with a mind-blowing number of great events, we took a look at a handful of good places to drink. This is by no means even a fraction of all the best spots: Each neighborhood has a gem or three at which to knock one back. Read more on Chow...
| June 02 2010
This video raises some interesting points about organic farming and deeper implications of "big food." How do you feel about the statement, "Every day's act of eating is an act of creating freedom"?
| June 01 2010
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This article cropped up on CNN today, just in time for summer eating. Does it encourage you to go organic?
CNN -- If you're eating non-organic celery today, you may be ingesting 67 pesticides with it, according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group.
The group, a nonprofit focused on public health, scoured nearly 100,000 produce pesticide reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to determine what fruits and vegetables we eat have the highest, and lowest, amounts of chemical residue.
Read the rest of the story on cnn.com...
| June 01 2010
Recently, the TLD team came across an interesting video listed on Hulu discussing issues the world is starting to face related to our food being controlled by large corporations. What we want to know is, do you see this as an issue? If so, is the movement toward hyper-local food production and sustainability part of the solution for meeting our future food demands? Take a look at the first 10 minutes or so of the video and let us know what you think!
