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Portland: A Food Biography (Big City Food Biographies)

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The infant city referred to as The Clearing used to be a bald patch amid a stuttering wood. The Clearing used to be 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 remainder trees were scraped from the landscape, Portland’s wood used to be still a verdant breadbasket, overflowing with huckleberries and chanterelles, venison leaping on cloven hoof. Today, Portland is seen as a quaint village populated by accept as true with fund wunderkinds who run food carts each and every serving something more precious than the last. But Portland’s culinary history in fact tells a different story: the tales of the salmon-people, the pioneers and immigrants, each and every struggling to make this peculiar but inviting land between the Pacific and the Cascades feel like home.

The foods that many of us go together 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 full of life prose the culinary landscape of Portland, then and now.

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