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Mold in ice machines at six stands at Miller Park in Milwaukee. A cockroach crawling over a soda dispenser in a private club at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh. Food service workers repeatedly ignoring orders to wash their hands at a stand at Detroit’s Ford Field. Sports fans don’t always see

A refreshing sushi meal really started to appeal to me, with all the heavy eating we’ve been doing during this month of travel. We especially loved the food we had in Portland, Maine: the pillowy Sicilian slices at Micucci’s Italian grocery, the crispy duck fat-fried fries washed down with the Allagash wheat beer/ho

Coffee cuts the risk of head and neck cancer. According to a study, 4 cups a day cuts your chance by more than 1/3rd. Overall, the risk of developing head and neck cancers was 12 percent lower in people who drank coffee compared with those who didn’t, after accounting for a variety of factors,

I've never had salmon ceviche before, and I wasn't entirely sold on it until

Kenny & Zuke's Pastrami Burger I think it started innocently enough. I thought with some of the fantastic new burgers in tow

Cheeseburger Sushi

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There are times when I’ve gone to a restaurant and had an incredible experience, but for various reasons I didn’t make it back. Such was the case with Yakuza Lounge on Portland’s northeast side. I had my first experience with my friend DOR last October. It was

I worry because it means so much to me. I'm sure you know what I mean. You know when you go to a restaurant and have an incredible experience, but for various reasons (none of them so good that you have any excuse to stay away for so long) you just don't make it back. For months. Such was the case with

From MSNBC, an Australian chef  has ordered customers to eat everything on their plates or pay a penalty and be banned from her restaurant. Chef Yukako Ichikawa has introduced a 30 percent discount for diners who eat all the food they have ordered at Wafu, her 30-seat restaurant in the Sydney suburb o

Just when I start getting back my momentum, I’ve abandoned you dear readers (if you still exist!) again. My sister was visiting from ATL, and then this week I had the cheesy Food Show and mounds of end-of-term papers to still grade. Excuses, excuses, I know. After clogging my arteries with too much free cheese [...]

There really is no point in me trying to make ramen - it's just not going to happen. It would be like trying to make sushi. I could eat raw fish slices with vinegared rice, but it requires many years of training to make sushi. Ramen too. So instead, I used ramen as the inspiration for noodle soup.Who puts aspara

Photo by Ron Dollette, http://saucesupreme.com Nearly fifty restaurants, more than three dozen wine

According to Grant Butler over at the Oregonian, Shigezo will be opening in the old

[Note: This is a mix of April Fools stories and real news. The real stories are at the top of the page, phony stories have their titles crossed out] IS YOUR SUSHI SUSTAINABLE?

Heck yes, vegan sushi at the airport! Outside of overpriced chips and desperate, packaged Alternative Baking Co cookies, the only thing I’m consuming at an airport may be a glass of wine or cup of herbal tea before my flight. On our way back to Portland last week, Millie and I perused the normal food stands at [...]

One of the first times I had sushi was in college. I was on an overseas study program in Jap

What does a nascent farmers' market look like? Well, all you have to do is show up on a

I am in love with salty ume, those puckery, pink Japanese pickled plums. We picked up a big vat of them for cheap at Anzen Hiroshi’s, an old-school Japanese market in Portland. I can’t stop eating them out of the jar. Too bad two plums (actually closer to our apricots) have about 40 percent of [...]

I have a ton of stuff that I’ve Twittered/Facebooked about over the past month, but haven’t felt well enough to sit down and write a post. There is so much news here you may need to take a nap to get through it. Let’s see how far I can get. I promise to quit

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We are seeing stories like this often: one type of food being passed off as another. In the past I’ve covered inorganic produce being sold as organic, foreign produce as local, farmed fish as wild… the list goes on. After reading the following article, I’m starting to wonder about everything I see in th

After a long downhill spiral for a short height, Bay 13 finally closed last night. Their website puts it simply: “Bay13 has closed. We will be reopening as a new concept in spring 2010″ Reconstructed in what was once an abandoned warehouse, Bay 13 came to town in February 2007, with big plans,

Looks like Hiroshi, the much vaunted sushi restaurant in the pearl, is for sale. From BizBuySell: A 1,600 sqft, 50-seat sushi restaurant in the desirable Pearl district of Portland, Oregon. Established for three

Three years ago, I had a couple Portland autumns under my belt and leaned towards red kuri as my favorite

The newest vegan cart in town.Time to dust off the ole Vegan Friendly Food Carts in Portland list! Oh wait, it doesn't collect

It took me quite a while to try ZuZu Ramen. And I love ramen, really and truly. There are two things that kept me away all this time. First of all, it's not Japanese. The place is owned by the people who own Sheep Station, an Australian-themed joint a block away. Okay, the head chef i

Yo, vegan bloggers! VeganMoFo III starts today, which happens to be World Vegetarian Day.Can you feel the positivity? Can you feel the celebration of broccoli? Have you stocked your fridge with at least four varieties of non dairy milk or the means to make them from scratch?My goals for VeganMoFo 2009:

I once heard a story about sushi that really impressed me. The true sushi expert, when trying a restaurant for the first time, always begins by ordering Tamago, or egg sushi. Egg sushi may not be as exciting as sea urchin (Uni) or fatty tuna belly (Toro), but it is th

Thai Food Cafe Brief Review Overall Service Food Quality Atmosphere Vegan Options 8.25 9 9 6 9 Location: 833 N Killingsworth Ave Portland, OR 97217 (503) 285-8745 Hours: M-F 11am-9pm Weekends 12pm-9pm Times Visited: 9 North Killingsworth has always had a smattering of vegan options at the various businesses l

I made the simplest of summer vegetable soups, mostly with my 2.5 year old daughter in mind. Home made vegetable stock with shell beans, summer squash, scallions, garlic, potatoes, and carrots. Not a whole lot else. Some crusty bread with thin slices of Comte

"No Sushi""No Kids"How can you not love a Japanese restaurant that is balls enou

One of the perks of being a blogger is trying new products you may not necessarily pick up at the store. I feel confident that this is part of the reason you registered the domain VeganFoodRulesAlot on wordpress last year. The Goods:

Waiter, There’s Deer in My Sushi. (NY Times) Sushi made with deer meat, anyone? How about a slice of raw horse on that rice? These are some of the most extreme alternatives being considered by Japanese chefs as

That is the only way to describe two of our dinners out in the 'Couv last weekend. Easily the two best meals I've ever had back-to-back, in fact the best Japanese and Indian food I've had out. To save on too much blather, I'll just do the pictorial with short comments to add to the obvious flavor.....First up,

My arrival to NYC last month was reminiscent of so many trips home I'd taken in college, via Fung Wah bus from Boston.  The last time I'd taken that bus on vacation, I was more hungover than I'd ever been in my life.  It's been four years, and I s

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I've been trying to write this happy post the past three days I've been back from vacation. Already, I've hit up a new vegan-friendly food cart (Just Thai - the return of the I Love Thai Food cart owners) and thi

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Then these are a few of the things you might catch me stuffing my pie-hole with at various spots around Portland, with varying degrees of satisfaction....

Rainy day be damned, I went to the second Portland Farmers Market this past Saturday.  It had returned for the season (and by season, I mean until December!) to the PSU Park blocks and despite just missing bus there, finding myself using an umbrella for the first time in

So I've been to a slew of restaurants lately and need to catch up.First up, Dragonfish, where I managed to cajole my co-workers into going for lunch recently.It was a shock, really. My co-workers have a few old stand-bys - PF Changs (meh), Typhoon! (meh),

Hello,Has anyone had any good (or bad) experiences with ordering sushi for a large group from a local sushi restaurant you could share? I'm hosting a baby shower for a friend and would like to serve sushi. There will be about 20 people in attendance.Thank you in advance!Jenny