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Thursday Tours: #FeastPDX

September 17, 2015Filed in: Events, Reviews

Yippee! Best week ever! Feast is here! I apologize in advance for ridiculous #FeastPDX posts taking over your Instagram feed.

Meredith and I are sharing our best tips on how to survive the week of eating and drinking for #ThursdayToursPDX. Whether you are attending just one event, or nearly all of them like me, you’ll like having these suggestions in your back pocket. Hope to see your smiling faces at the events!

#FeastPDX recommendations brought to you by Meredith of Martha Chartreuse. All photos courtesy of Meredith Davison. Continue Reading...

Summer Love

August 27, 2015Filed in: Recipes, Reviews

8 months into the year and I’m finally feeling like I’m tackling all those goals I set out for 2015. Climb Mt St Helens? Check! It took us 8.5 hours but we did it. Learn how to sharpen my own knives? After a great class at Portland Knife House and finally trying it on my own knives, I think I had some success. My knives are now feeling loved. Balance? Ok, that still needs some work on occasion. But I am making more of an effort of not having an agenda, so I can cook, read, and especially this summer, have a casual evening at home. Sometimes the simple things are just the best. Continue Reading...

Thursday Tours: Feast Founders

August 13, 2015Filed in: Events

Hello and happy Thursday! I’m coming ‘atcha today from the absurdly hot Phoenix, AZ. Don’t worry, it’s only a mild 113 today. Eeks. This Oregonian is not cut out for that, thankfully everything here obviously has AC.

In this week’s edition of #ThursdayToursPDX, Meredith and I are bringing you the co-founders of Feast Portland! Feast is one of my all-time favorite weeks of the year. Screw my birthday, just bring me Feast. With some of the best chefs from Portland, around the country and some even as far as Norway coming in for the event, Feast is four days of food, drinks and celebration. Between educational hands-on classes, panel discussions on culinary topics, fancy multi-course dinners, and large marquee events where you can sample all the best cuisine, Feast is seriously a food lover’s heaven. Continue Reading...