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Portland
A Food Biography
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2014
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The infant city called The Clearing was a bald patch amid a stuttering wood. The Clearing was no booming metropolis; no destination for gastrotourists; no career-changer for ardent chefs — just awkward, palsied steps toward Victorian gentility. In the decades before the remaining trees were scraped from the landscape, Portland’s wood was still a verdant breadbasket, overflowing with huckleberries and chanterelles, venison leaping on cloven hoof. Today, Portland is seen as a quaint village populated by trust fund wunderkinds who run food carts each serving something more precious than the last. But Portland’s culinary history actually tells a different story: the tales of the salmon-people, the pioneers and immigrants, each struggling to make this strange but inviting land between the Pacific and the Cascades feel like home.
The foods that many people associate with Portland are derived from and defined by its history: salmon, berries, hazelnuts and beer. But Portland is more than its ingredients. Portland is an eater’s paradise and a cook’s playground. Portland is a gustatory wonderland. Full of wry humor and captivating anecdotes, Portland: A Food Biography chronicles the Rose City’s rise from a muddy Wild West village full of fur traders, lumberjacks and ne’er-do-wells, to a progressive, bustling town of merchants, brewers and oyster parlors, to the critical darling of the national food scene. Heather Arndt Anderson brings to life in lively prose the culinary landscape of Portland, then and now.
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Edition
1/2014
Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-2738-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-2739-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
313
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 The Material Resources No access Pages 1 - 26
2 The Chinook and Kalapuya People No access Pages 27 - 58
3 The Old World Meets the Wild West, or: “Congratulations! You Have Made It to Oregon” No access Pages 59 - 106
4 Immigrants No access Pages 107 - 148
5 To Market, To Market No access Pages 149 - 178
6 Perusing the Menu No access Pages 179 - 204
7 Drink Up No access Pages 205 - 232
8 Like Mother Used to Make No access Pages 233 - 260
Epilogue No access Pages 261 - 262
Notes No access Pages 263 - 300
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 301 - 302
Index No access Pages 303 - 312
About the Author No access Pages 313 - 313
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