There are those who say Portland lacks diversity, that it
is little more than a playground for overeducated, underemployed white
people, and that the city will never, for all the mayor’s talk of
internationalism and manufactured weirdness, outgrow its white-bread
personality.
Those people really
need to spend more time shopping, because if it is at all fair to judge a
city’s diversity by its grocery stores (and it is!), Portland is far
more cosmopolitan than a walk down Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard might
lead you to believe. In the course of writing this guide, we sampled
goods from every continent, amid shoppers speaking dozens of languages,
and unfailingly discovered foods we’d never encountered before. The
cultural riches of this city are boundless.
Of course, there’s
more to cooking than imported ingredients. Like wine: We have greatly
expanded our survey of excellent wine and beer shops for this year’s
edition. A fine meal also requires solid tools, so we added a
kitchenware section.
Of
course, the work is not done—there is so much more to taste. I hope this
guide will inspire you to hunt for even more treasures from our
farmers, butchers, cheesemakers, importers, vintners and
chocolatiers—and that you will tell me about your discoveries at bwaterhouse@wweek.com, so I can write about them in next year’s Devour.
—Ben Waterhouse
Contents
Grocers
Meat & Fish
Farmers Markets
World Markets
More Eating (Other Resources)
Bakeries
Chocolate
Other Specialty Foods
Kitchenware
Coffee, Tea and Soda
Wine, Beer and Liquor
Wok and Bowl High School
20 Oregon Foods We Love
Contributors
EDITOR: Ben Waterhouse
ART DIRECTOR: Carolyn Richardson
COPY CHIEF: Kat Merck
WRITERS: Ben
Bateman, Natalie Baker, Craig Beebe, Ruth Brown, Denise Castañon, Kelly
Clarke, Liz Crain, Angie Jabine, Marianna Hane Wiles, Caitlin McCarthy,
Brian Panganiban, Ben Waterhouse
COPY EDITORS: Matt Buckingham, Sarah Smith
DEVOUR INTERNS: Ashley Gossman, Karen Locke, Tiffany Stubbert
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Darryl James, Allison E. Jones, Leah Nash
Ad designers: Soma Honkanen, Adam Krueger, Dylan Serkin
COVER ILLUSTRATION: Holly Wales
What a stunning example of textbook racism:
"There are those who say Portland lacks diversity, that it is little more than a playground for overeducated, underemployed white people, and that the city will never, for all the mayor’s talk of internationalism and manufactured weirdness, outgrow its white-bread personality."
Hey, let's try out those words for, oh, Atlanta:
"There are those who say Atlanta lacks diversity, that it is little more than a playground for undereducated, underemployed black people, and that the city will never, for all the mayor’s talk of internationalism and manufactured weirdness, outgrow its hip-hop cornbread personality.
Yeah. Can't see the forest for the trees though, can you Ben? And the irony, of course, is that you sound just like the racial stereotype you're fostering.