Food

Recipe: Lunchbox-Friendly Chicken and Zucchini Meatballs

A look into Lunchbox, a new cookbook unpacking the never-ending struggle of what to pack your kids for lunch.

08/25/2022 By Matthew Trueherz

Food News

Gregory Gourdet’s Cookbook, Everyone’s Table, Wins a James Beard Award

The owner of upcoming Haitian restaurant Kann was the sole Portlander to take home a medal. Plus, a new Indian brunch is coming to town.

06/16/2022 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Interview

Party With Kwame Onwuachi and Gregory Gourdet at the Launch of Onwuachi's New Cookbook

Onwuachi, named “the most important chef in America” by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2019, is visiting Portland on tour for his cookbook 'My America: Recipes from a Young Black Chef'

05/20/2022 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Food News

Portland Chefs Gregory Gourdet and Joshua McFadden Nab James Beard Cookbook Award Nominations

Gregory Gourdet's Haitian-healthy 'Everyone's Table' and Joshua McFadden's 'Grains for Every Season' are in the running for the coveted awards.

04/27/2022 By Karen Brooks

Recipe

This Steak Salad Recipe Channels Year-Round Summer Vibes

The PNW-raised authors of recipe blog ‘The Modern Proper’ have the perfect warm-weather dish—no grill required.

04/08/2022 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Grocery Stores

How Providore Became a Portland Food Paradise

With a new expansion, the NE Portland store is a treasure hunt, a cookbook curator, a wine bar, and a love letter to small farmers.

02/08/2022 By Karen Brooks

Holiday Guide

Portland Chefs Pick 8 Cookbooks You Should Gift This Holiday

Take it from the pros—these books will get the creative juices flowing in the kitchen.

12/09/2021 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Recipe

These Salmon-Sesame Dumplings Prove that Dumplings = Love

I’ll never take a handmade dumpling for granted again.

03/24/2021 By Katherine Chew Hamilton

Cook the Book

The 5 Best Portland Cookbooks for Quarantine Cooking

Bonus: they’re all available in digital form.

04/08/2020 By Eat Beat Team

Pomo Picks

Things We Love That Have Nothing to Do with Coronavirus: Week of March 25

The Portland Monthly team shares the non-pandemic stuff that's getting us through the week.

03/25/2020 By Portland Monthly Staff

Old Joy

A Pair of Portlanders Wrote the New Joy of Cooking

Nearly century-old recipes and a fresh global pantry make this classic kitchen tome a holiday go-to for all. Plus: a go-to recipe for fig and brown butter spice cake.

10/23/2019 By Heather Arndt Anderson

Breaking News

Departure Chef Gregory Gourdet Inks Major Cookbook Deal

With help from cookbook wiz JJ Goode, the new tome will explore the Top Chef star’s lifelong culinary influences.

05/21/2019 By Karen Brooks

Cold Fusion

Salt & Straw’s Ice Cream Cookbook Is Anything but Vanilla

Time to dig that dusty ice cream maker out of the basement.

04/23/2019 By Benjamin Tepler

Q&A

Cookbook Celebrity Samin Nosrat on Writing, Eating Healthy, and Trader Joe's Frozen Food

The James Beard–award winning author and host of the Netflix's Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat comes to Revolution Hall on Monday, March 11.

03/08/2019 By Jackson Main

Cookbooks

Q&A: Salt & Straw’s Flavor Maestro Tyler Malek

Portland’s dominant ice cream force will release its first cookbook in April. We sat down with the company’s longtime co-owner to talk crazy flavors, xanthan gum, and the future of S&S.

02/11/2019 By Benjamin Tepler

Food Event Spotlight

Cookbook Legend Diana Henry Comes to Powell’s June 13

PoMo food critic Karen Brooks hosts a deep dive into Henry’s new cookbook, How to Eat a Peach.

06/12/2018 By Benjamin Tepler

Mama Sans Drama

7 Oh-So-Portland Ways to Celebrate Mom

Mother’s Day is fast approaching. Don’t just take her to brunch again.

05/02/2018 By Sarah Hutchins and Kelly Clarke

Food News

Portland Cookbook Wins—and Promptly Loses—Coveted Award amid Policy Scandal

Martha Holmberg, local cookbook author and CEO of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, is in hot water over her Six Seasons win.

03/05/2018 By Benjamin Tepler

Holiday Gift Guide 2017

8 Portland Cookbooks for Every Kind of Food Lover

From Pok Pok to Pix to pickles, local chefs and writers share DIY secrets.

11/20/2017 By Benjamin Tepler

Recipes

Kachka's Glorious Cookbook Brings Home the Borsch (Yes, Borsch)

Portland chef Bonnie Morales shares Russian recipes from dumplings to infused vodka. Here's how to make her rich, meaty short rib borsch.

10/12/2017 By Benjamin Tepler