It’s been almost five years since Rent-a-Kitchen opened its Talent doors, providing a certified commercial facility for start-up businesses that otherwise couldn’t afford their own digs. The sour economy has since forced out a few small food businesses, but there’s no lack of entrepreneurs taking their places at the stove. One of these is Vintner’s [...]
Charlene and Vernon Rollins didn’t install their restaurant in a rundown shack on Highway 99 — without so much as a sign — with the goal of reaping recognition. But their offbeat Talent eatery, New Sammy’s Cowboy Bistro, is getting just that from the prestigious James Beard Foundation. For the third straight year, Charlene was [...]
What more can I say about Dungeness crab, featured in this week’s A la Carte, except: Eat it. Now. It doesn’t get any better than wintertime in Oregon. Most Oregonians worth their salt don’t need a reminder. That’s why the primary aim with this week’s story was to provide some new recipes and highlight the [...]
Some women may consider it rank heresy to cook their own Valentine’s Day meal. I’m not one of those. Sure, I’m all for giving hard-working home cooks a night off, myself included. But a night when everyone else dines out doesn’t always deliver in the romance department. Give me a birthday, catching-up-with-friends, TGIF or just-because restaurant [...]
Cosmic forces have transpired this year to align Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day, apparently a unique coincidence by modern reckoning. The event is likely to pass as mere curiosity for most, given the distance between millennia of Chinese civilization and the Western mutation of Valentine’s Day from Catholic feast day honoring early Christian martyrs [...]
When I get tired of even Moroccan-spiced oatmeal, next on the breakfast menu is hot millet-amaranth cereal. No, this isn’t some new Malt-O-Meal product. It’s a porridge made from two ancient grains that get little play in modern life. While “whole grains” became a buzzword in the last decade, Americans did little to progress beyond [...]
I’m probably not the only person wishing the farmer’s market wasn’t still more than a month off despite unseasonably warm weather. There’s one face that will be missing, though, when this year’s Rogue Valley Growers and Crafters Market opens in Medford March 18, in Ashland March 16. “Pasta” Dave Deichler died a couple weeks ago, shocking [...]
It may sound strange that my weekend breakfast treat is a bowl of oatmeal. Sure, I like egg dishes as much as the next person. But after a week of usually too many wheat-based foods, some other whole grain is a welcome change. And this isn’t just any old bowl of oatmeal. I exclusively use [...]
