For residents and visitors alike, Food Lover’s Guide to Portland is a road map to finding the best of the best in America’s favorite do-it-yourself foodie Mecca. Navigate Portland’s edible bounty with this all-access pass to hundreds of producers, purveyors, distillers, bakers, food carts, and farmers markets. This book is the indispensable guide to it all. In the second edition, readers get 30+ new full listings, 150+ new businesses, a new food cart chapter by food cart expert Brett Burmeister, and a Hispanic Market section from food writer and Mi Mero Mole owner Nick Zukin. Whether you’ve lived in Portland your entire life, are visiting for business or pleasure, or are a hungry transplant, this book will help you find all that is delicious in Portland.
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Praise for Liz Crain
These guys make Portland one of the most exciting restaurant cities in the world today.
- Mario Batali
- About Toro Bravo, written with John Gorham
Toro Bravo is so much more than a cookbook (though it does a damn fine job of being just that). It’s a passionate story of how one great chef found his way by following his heart and trusting his gut. It’s a practical guide and a culinary cri de coeur. This is the real deal. It’s the book I’m going to press into everyone’s hands. I love it like mad.
- Cheryl Strayed
- Author of Wild
- About Toro Bravo, written with John Gorham
John Gorham is a chef with a unique personality; he is magic. In his book Toro Bravo, he puts all his passion and soul into sharing Spanish cuisine with Americans. I’m certain both professional chefs and home cooks will love it.
- Ferran Adrià
- Head chef at El Bulli
- About Toro Bravo, written with John Gorham
Praise for Food Lover's Guide to Portland
An astoundingly comprehensive guide to Portland food. Crain has unearthed numerous gems in the nooks and crannies of Portland…
- Tami Parr
- Author of Artisan Cheese of the Pacific Northwest
Indispensable…Crain’s book celebrates the local food scene through hundreds of listings and profiles of Portland producers, purveyors, distillers, bakers, food carts, CSAs, farmers markets and beyond.
- Ashley Gartland, The Oregonian
NW Book Lovers is hungry, thanks to Liz Crain. We want her to take us on an eating tour of Portland, hitting all the markets and carts and cafes she writes about in Food Lover’s Guide to Portland...
- Jamie Passaro, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association
More than just a restaurant guide…contains profiles and interviews with the folks…producing the high-quality ingredients that are largely responsible for putting this little foodie mecca on the map.
- Megan Zabel, Powell's Books
A just-bigger-than-pocket-sized compendium of the PDX eating scene that’s sure to resonate with the minds, hearts, and bellies of us all.
- Mike Thelin, The Portland Monthly
Liz Crain brings the city to life, and makes Food Lover’s Guide to Portland an enjoyable read from cover to cover.
- Food Dude
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