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Thrillist: Everything you need to know about every cut of pork
Pork is the unsung hero of America’s protein canon, with cuts available for every price point and cooking project. But as with beef, pork varies drastically in texture and recommended preparation. Knowing what to do with each cut can be challenging — even after you figure out the difference between regular ham and picnic ham (hint: they’re nothing alike). To pull all the pork apart, we sat down with Aaron Silverman, co-owner and founder of Portland, Oregon’s Tails & Trotters, which raises its own […]
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Wei Wei
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The Pulitzer Prizes: Q&A with 2018 Feature Writing Winner Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
Essayist Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is the author of the haunting portrait of Dylann Roof, the murderer who calmly walked into Charleston, S.C.’s Mother Emanuel AME Church and killed nine people inside. Ghansah’s powerful narrative weaves together reportage, first-person reflection and analysis of the historical and cultural forces that brought Roof to that church that day. Ghansah’s first book, ‘The Explainers & the Explorers’ (Scribner), will be published next year. Her essay “If He Hollers Let Him Go” was nominated for […]
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The Pulitzer Prizes: Q&A with 2018 History Winner Jack E. Davis
When Jack E. Davis set out to write his now-Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea,” he hoped, in part, to rewrite the history of the Gulf he grew up on. His expansive nonfiction work brings new life to the Gulf of Mexico, one of the planet’s most diverse and productive marine ecosystems, through its environmental, political and economic past and present. Davis is also the author of the award-winning book, “An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and […]
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Travel Oregon: Cool Lakes For Summer Retreats
Oregonians wait all year for summer, when there are so few clouds in the sapphire-blue sky that we forget they were ever overcast. But on the dog days when the heat becomes too much to bear, we head for the lakes to cool our worries in still waters. From a painterly alpine lake in the Wallowas to a quiet multifingered lake on the Coast, here are a few lake retreats all across Oregon, where you can kayak, canoe, SUP, boat, […]
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Portland Monthly: Homey Surprises Abound at Northern-Meets-Southern Chinese Spot Master Kong
There are few spaces left in Portland that sound and feel like home, to me at least. On a recent Saturday, at two month-old Master Kong (8435 SE Division Street), I sat in a sparsely decorated dining room with two dozen families chatting loudly in a swelling symphony of both Mandarin and Cantonese. The food and atmosphere felt more like the busy, family-filled restaurants—often just glorified lunch counters—that I left behind in Chicago’s Chinatown. Unlike most of the other Chinese restaurants in the city, […]
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The San Francisco Chronicle: Portland: A taste of Japan — without the long flight
Tear your eyes, if you can, from the cloud-stippled skyline and the towering, snow-peaked Mount Hood, and gaze upon the sliding shoji doors of the Pavilion Gallery. You might forget you’re standing in Portland. Perched high above the city, on the terraced mountainside of the West Hills, lies the tranquil, 12 1/2-acre Japanese Garden, a mossy labyrinth of placid ponds, concentric, raked gravel circles and lush-yet-meticulously-clipped shrubbery. Since its opening in 1967 as a place of serenity for Portlanders and […]
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