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Largehearted Boy has the playlist for Liz Crain’s Food Lover’s Guide to Portland in Book Notes

10 Oct 2014|

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.

Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Myla Goldberg, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others.

Liz Crain’s Food Lover’s Guide to Portland is an exhaustive and celebratory exploration of Portland’s food scene, from restaurants to producers to farmers markets.

The Oregonian wrote of the book:

“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.”

Stream a playlist of these songs at Spotify.


In her own words, here is Liz Crain’s Book Notes music playlist for her book Food Lover’s Guide to Portland:


Portland has more than two dozen kick-ass record stores and I wish that someone would put together a book similar to my Food Lover’s Guide to Portland for them. Get readers up close and personal with PDX record shop owners – offer up the backstories. We’re so lucky to have such great access to quality vinyl in this town. Music is important to me. One of my favorite things to in the world is to go on weekend walkabouts with friends around the city and visit my favorite record shops. There might be a Bloody Mary stop or two. I mean, there probably will be.

I had a long-term relationship die a couple years ago and one of the best parts of that RIP was getting my music jam back. I think that that often happens in relationships—one person tends to dominate the music diet and my ex did ours. I, as you might imagine, dominated our literal diet so there’s no blame. It’s just how it goes—in relationships you wear the pants on some things and you get spanked with others. Anyway, I really love playing whatever I want whenever I want now. And as a result, I’ve bought more records in the past two years than I have in my entire life.

These songs have all been good to me in one way or another over the past two years encompassing the research/writing/launching of the second edition of this book and I hope you dig it.

To see Liz’s playlist, go to Largehearted Boy.