where our food comes from

–Editor’s Note: This article is updated from August 2017.  I caught up again with Chef Ky Loop recently and was excited to hear about his recent ventures.  As he says, …

Chefs and restaurant owners today like to mention the efforts made to purvey the best ingredients for their kitchens. They want people to know they source the freshest and highest …

The restaurant industry has never been more diverse and dynamic, and chefs today work in an industry perhaps more creative and chef-driven than ever before.  While formal training used to …

Mead, or honey wine, is made by fermenting honey, water, and yeast, and it may very well be the world’s first wine and first alcoholic beverage. Chemical traces of a …

Oregon is rugged coastline and sandy beaches, sand dunes, timber forests, snow-capped mountains, high desert and dry open ranch land. It’s also the soil-rich flatlands and green valleys of farm …