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Prickly Ash


Food Cart Reviews
What’s roujiamo supposed to taste like? Honestly, I have no idea. Prickly Ash’s version of the flatbread sandwich, China’s answer to the hamburger, is the only version I’ve had. The Miss   More
 
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Restaurant Guide 2012: Smallwares, Restaurant of the Year Runner-Up


Restaurant Guide
Life on the food frontier can be rugged and lonely. Ask Johanna Ware. As a child in Chicago, Ware remembers the quizzical reaction to the “crazy lunches” packed by a mother “who cooked her w   More
 
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Creeper Crawl: Butteville Manor

Small-town scares in Donald, Ore.

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Features
Who's the weird old person hanging around the packs of high school kids at Portland-area haunted houses? The one who reeks of good coffee and cheap gin? Yeah, that’s a Willamette Week writer out reviewing local haunts for Creeper Crawl 2012.
Butt...   More
 
Monday, October 22, 2012 by MARTIN CIZMAR

Melt With You

Grilling the goods at Xico


Food Reviews & Stories
Oaxaca is famous for inventing one of the world’s great cheeses. If you know how to pronounce the name of the southern Mexican state (wah-hah-ka) but not Xochitl or Tlaxcala, you probably owe    More
 
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Drank: Dark O’ the Moon Pumpkin Stout (Elysian Brewing Company)


Drank
Seattle’s Elysian Brewing is the pumpkin king of the Northwest, brewing 13 different pumpkin beers and hosting a massive pumpkin brew festival that draws entrants from as far away as Norway. E   More
 
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Barwares: Ware It Well


Bar Reviews
Barwares (4605 NE Fremont St., 971-229-0995, smallwarespdx.com) exists only because of an architectural fluke. Chef Johanna Ware’s Asian-leaning restaurant, Smallwares, needs a bar the same si   More
 
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

The President of Beers

We bootlegged beer from all 50 states for the ultimate American taste-off.


Cover Story
Beer is made from barley, hops, yeast and statute. We tend to forget, but the bearded men with sweaty brows who toil over copper...   More
 
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR, JOHN LOCANTHI, BRIAN YAEGER

Drank: Axes of Evil (Gigantic Brewing/Three Floyds Brewing)


Drank
Axes of Evil is a fence mender. Despite the massive flying skull on the side, Indiana’s Three Floyds Brewing didn’t make half this beer. (“I didn’t even know that happened,” said the g   More
 
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Miss Kate’s Southern Kitchen


Food Cart Reviews
The Help ain’t got anything on the sentimental backstory behind Miss Kate’s Southern Kitchen. According to owner Charles Hude, the recipes for his Mississippi Marketplace comfort-food cart w   More
 
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

President of Beers: #15

Atlas IPA: Marshall Brewing Co., Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Food & Drink
We're drinking the flagship craft beer from every state in the Union, counting down from 50-1, to find which is home to the President of Beers.

#15: Atlas IPA: Marshall Brewing Co., Tulsa, Oklahoma

State: The Southernish state Oklahoma. The inaugural cla...   More
 
Friday, September 28, 2012 by MARTIN CIZMAR
 

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