Good Stuff NW

Love those pickled onions you get at your favorite Mexican place?

I've always loved the water.

Instead of just four seasons, I'm proposing we have five.

It's not often you get to meet your heroes in person, but I read a social media post from Hani Almadhoun that he'd be coming through Portland after meeting with supporters in Corvallis.

We go camping over the Fourth of July, ostensibly for our dogs who have been prone to become drooling, shivering messes if we stay in town and attempt to survive the "celebrations" of our fellow citizens that turn our normally quiet, tree-lined neighborho…

In the Pacific Northwest, early summer and late spring can feel like fraternal twins.

Early summer whets my appetite for what's to come in the Pacific Northwest: First to trickle in from our fields both cultivated and wild are the earliest greens—nettles, fiddleheads and fava tops among them—then comes asparagus, green garlic, early strawb…

Once again, it's confession time.

This article was written by Portland author Peggy Acott to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Growing Gardens.

There are certain vegetables that I am embarrassed to admit I have had almost no experience with.

Like Paris, Portland is a city of neighborhoods, each having its signature cafés, restaurants, bars and bakeries, where residents gather to nod a hello, remark on how big children have grown and share the latest gossip.

The Elk has returned!

A sure sign of spring in the Northwest is the unpredictability of the weather from one minute to the next.

I adore quiche, especially the version known as Quiche Lorraine with bacon and cheese, the one that Julia Child trilled about on her cooking show, "The French Chef."

Do you feel overwhelmed when you go to the farmers' market?

All I clearly remember about the 1994 novel "Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Guterson is its description of the dripping, thickly moss-covered trees and rocks, and the multilayered lushness of ferns growing from fallen logs, all dimly illuminated by the…

In a confusing development, the version of the so-called Farm Store bill (HB 4153) that was discussed in a final public hearing just before the legislature adjourned last week was not the version that passed the legislature on Friday (3/6).

The 2026 Session of the Oregon Legislature, scheduled to end on Sunday, has concluded with mixed results for Oregon's small family farmers.

Recently I found my kitchen counter awash in shallots.

With the short session of the Oregon State Legislature heading into the home stretch—it's scheduled to conclude on Monday, March 9—legislation is being pushed through committees and lobbied with abandon, but there's still time use your voice to speak up f…

Remember when Mark Bittman, the author of the "Minimalist" column in the New York Times from 1997 to 2011, went through his pimenton phase?

"Eating is a political act." - Michael Pollan I have known Mark Doxtader for decades, since he first towed his mobile pizza oven to the Portland Farmers Market and started slinging slices to the crowds queued up for some of his woodfired pies heaped with…

Convening on Groundhog Day could be taken as an ominous portent to the beginning of the short 2026 session of the Oregon Legislature.

The following essay is by Angel Medina, an "award-winning writer, filmmaker, and restaurateur; lover of coffee and mezcal; founder of TODOS Media; co-owner of República & Co." according to his bio on Substack.

Growing up, root vegetables were not in my mother's dinner repertoire.

My latest CSA update from Aaron Nichols of Stoneboat Farm in Hillsboro on what to expect in our share included this note: "As a lot of you know, I spend some of my extra time working to protect farmland around my farm that is consistently under threat of…

People who deny the facts of evolution completely puzzle me.

Dungeness crab season started on December 16th this year, much to the relief of cooks, diners and Oregon's crab fleet of 424 small family-owned vessels that ply the waters up and down our 362-mile coast.