Friend of Poached and long-time Portland restaurant critic, author, and all-around foodie Karen Brooks has written a new tome chronicling Portland’s rise as a national culinary center. The Mighty Gastropolis: Portland: A Journey Through the Center of America’s New Food...

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I came to this relationship with baggage of an intriguing, medico-latinish nature: plantar fasciitis, which is, for you unfamiliar with the condition, the inflammation of the thick tissue on the bottom of the foot (the plantar fascia) that connects the...

We are all ridiculously excited about this book. Menu Design in America, 1850-1985 by Steven Heller, John Mariani and Jim Heimann from Taschen publishing is one of those books you discover, grip to your chest and think, “THIS would be...