Food & Drink Portland chef Greg Higgins (of downtown's Higgins restaurant) is in Mongolia, sharing his sausage and charcuterie making expertise with local butchers as part of Mercy Corps' Farmer to Farmer project, and he's blogging the whole trip for WW:---Life has been good here in the western Aimag of Khovd. The cooking's solid, the Mongol people are wonderful and our work has gone well. We've even had a ...   More

Food & Drink Portland chef Greg Higgins (of downtown's Higgins restaurant) is in Mongolia, sharing his sausage and charcuterie making expertise with local butchers as part of Mercy Corp's Farmer to Farmer project, and he's blogging the whole trip for WW: --- So, what's it like teaching sausage making in Western Mongolia? First, you have to really re-think how you picture food. The cooking here is simple; it's ...   More

Food & Drink Portland chef Greg Higgins (of downtown's Higgins restaurant) is in Mongolia, sharing his sausage and charcuterie making expertise with local butchers as part of Mercy Corp's Farmer to Farmer project, and he's blogging the whole trip for WW: ---Another brilliantly clear mountain day in Khovd. It's a welcome respite from the dense, throat-parching smoke and occasional dust storms that seem to be ...   More

Food & Drink Portland chef Greg Higgins is best known as one of the forefathers of sustainable, farm-to-table dining in the Pacific Northwest, which he's been dishing up at his downtown restaurant Higgins for almost 18 years. ---But right now, he's about 6,000 miles from Southwest Broadway—making sausages in Mongolia. Higgins is there with Mercy Corp's Farmer to Farmer project, sharing his sausage and charcuterie  ...   More

News Olympic Provisions, the Clyde Common crew's happy-making new charcuterie, wine and food spot, opened for biz today in a sun-filled corner of the Olympic Mills Commerce Center in Southeast Industrial—officially marking 2009 as the year Christmas came early for Portland's meat lovers. You'll recognize a lot of CC-isms here, from the polished concrete floors to the wide open kitchen. But, ...   More