Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, "The problem is that vegetables have no advertising," a woman in the crowd at the Central Library last Thursday evening complained. A diverse group, ranging from a mother with her ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Miss Dish's cohort, the kind and gentle Captain Broccoli, doesn't go in for eating animals. As Miss Dish loyalists know, her Royal Ryeness enjoys animal, vegetable and mineral as ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Miss Dish is often invited to joyful opening parties for restaurants about to swing open their doors (is it the lure of her dashing wit? Or the fear of her poison pen?). She gets ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, What does Portland look like through the gauzy lens of national food magazines? If you slip into the perspective taken by the writers of feature stories like the one recently unve ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Now, it's no secret that Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard can be a bustling street where the gentle tinkling of commerce mixes with the tangy smell of vittles off the grill. But its ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, One thing Lenor and Eugen Bingham nailed with Il Piatto, their hallmark eatery in Southeast, was the concept of a neighborhood establishment. They picked a nondescript storefront ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Many people look to Miss Dish for advice about the niceties of Home Ec etiquette, and often she can comply. For shame, then, that she's hidden from her public for so long this sor ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Miss Dish is always looking for some kind of tonic to save her heaving ass from the following: a) Aging. b) Aches about the Head, Gut and Nose. c) Reality. While Maker's Mark has ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Ah, turkey. Bless it. There are many ways to go right and many ways to go so, so wrong. Miss Dish asks you to take notes and check the recesses of your mind for hysterically funny ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, After a fruitful trek to the Big Apple last week, Miss Dish can tell you, based on the experience of enduring two nasty pizza slices at two different shops and calling only one da ...   More