A weekend trip to Las Vegas should be one of the year’s highlights. But Sin City has always left me a bit miffed. The casinos are too frenetic, the strip too ostentatious. While many tourists never leave their hotel, I would prefer the chance to at least walk the city. But everyone who’s been to [...]
I may not be the Mail Tribune’s infamous Fish Hack, but, for a 28-year-old woman, I’ve done my fair share of salmon fishing. When I was growing up on Oregon’s south coast, fishing was a way of life even for those who didn’t make their living in the industry. I came home wet, cold and [...]
Even if you’re not packing sandwiches for lunch, fondness for good ones apparently never fades, as columnist Jan Roberts-Dominguez attests today in her A la Carte column. Unlike Jan, I’ve never been much of a BLT fan. There’s something a little off-putting to me about the hot bacon wilting the lettuce and tomato juices thinning [...]
Friday’s front-page story on food foragers likely would spark conversation at the water cooler. Probably not so much around the dinner table, depending on your sensibilities. For those of you who missed it, the Los Angeles Times profiled a group of “freegans” who rummage through New York trash bins for outdated — but still edible [...]
It’s been a long week, made even longer by my effort to eat locally. But did I succeed? Probably not, according to my own self-imposed boundaries for this undertaking. Any and all bread products seemed to be a sticking point, although I did hear earlier this week of some flour sold locally made with wheat [...]
Eating mindfully has been one of my personal philosophies for some time. Readers of this blog will recognize it as a past topic. It isn’t just being in the moment when you’re chewing your granola at breakfast. Planning contributes so much to the overall enjoyment of food. It’s also, I’ve discovered, vital if one is [...]
I hardly need an excuse to indulge in garden-fresh tomatoes fairly exploding right now off the vines. Particularly when I deprive myself of them every other time of year because they’re not really fresh. Vine-ripened or not, the tomatoes available in supermarkets through winter and spring are just bland shadows of the real thing. It [...]
Hunger pangs apparently are a drawback to eating locally. Or maybe they’re a benefit, depending on your point of view. Waking up at 5 a.m. today so hungry that I couldn’t get back to sleep, I’m not the only one complaining. Lisa Almarode, our guest diarist, also said she was feeling unfulfilled after just two [...]
I now know what people mean when they say they want to eat right but just can’t. My motto is: If you don’t want to eat packaged, processed snack food, don’t buy it. It’s as simple as that. Little did I imagine that a bag of Goldfish crackers could destroy my resolve to eat locally [...]
This is my first day of trying to eat local, and already I’m itching to change my definition of “local.” Before readers think I’ve failed miserably, I did put out a concerted effort and even purchased some foods I wouldn’t otherwise. I spent $20 on cheese yesterday at Rogue Creamery and $5 on peaches and [...]
