Last weekend, my friend and I went to Olympic Provisions for brunch. Olympic Provisions is a highly-lauded charcuterie and restaurant that cures their own meats right here in Portland. Oregon. They’ve got two restaurants in the city (one on the east side and on the west). Prior to this brunch, I’d only been to the […]
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Portland Farmer’s Market (Again)
See these onions below? Remember that scene in The Great Gatsby (book or movie, it doesn’t matter which and I won’t judge you if you say the latter), where Gatsby’s throwing all these shirts at Daisy and Daisy starts sobbing because she’s “never seen such beautiful shirts before”? Well, every time I look at that […]
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Portland Farmer’s Market
My boyfriend Erlend and I have spent our past few Saturday mornings perusing the Portland Farmer’s Market. While he (smartly) gathers a week’s worth of food and vegetables for himself, I’m more interested in what I’m able to eat right then and, of course, the photo opportunities the market present. I’ve always been a little […]
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Portland Food Bloggers’ Happy Hour at the Bent Brick
You know how there are just some days when things are just absolutely crazy: you’re swamped with work at the office, you’ve overcommitted to social activities, you’re constantly on the phone with your realtor, you’re wrecked from yesterday’s 6-mile trail race that you most definitely did not even train for but somehow fumbled through, and […]
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New York City
I mentioned in yesterday’s ginger-molasses cookie post that I was in New York City last weekend. Or should I say, the concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh! That’s the view from my friend Julie’s rooftop in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Pretty awesome, right? Her building is a weirdass artist’s haven in a neighborhood of hipster warehouses. […]
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San Francisco
For those of you who follow me on Instagram, you’ll know that I was in San Francisco recently. Although it was a short business trip, I was able to sneak in some time to visit some of my favorite places in the city. Here’s a quick preview before my full post: The first photograph is […]
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