Past Articles by Deena Prichep
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Tiny Mites Spark Big Battle Over Imports Of French Cheese Microscopic bugs called cheese mites are responsible for the distinctive rind and flavor of the bright orange French cheese Mimolette. But now, the FDA has blocked more than a ton of Mimolette from entering the country, because the agency says the mites left on it make it unfit for consumption. |
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Tiny Mites Spark Big Battle Over Imports Of French Cheese Microscopic bugs called cheese mites are responsible for the distinctive rind and flavor of the bright orange French cheese Mimolette. But now, the FDA has blocked more than a ton of Mimolette from entering the country, because the agency says the mites left on it make it unfit for consumption. |
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Tiny Mites Spark Big Battle Over Imports Of French Cheese Microscopic bugs called cheese mites are responsible for the distinctive rind and flavor of the bright orange French cheese Mimolette. But now, the FDA has blocked more than a ton of Mimolette from entering the country, because the agency says the mites left on it make it unfit for consumption. |
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Death Cafes Breathe Life Into Conversations About Dying Jon Underwood, a British Web designer and self-named "death entrepreneur," helps people talk about the taboo topic over tea and cake. "When we acknowledge that we're going to die, it falls back on ourselves to ask the question, 'Well, in this limited time that I've got, what's important for me to do?' " Underwood says. |
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Growing Resistance, Oregon Hazelnuts Battle Blight Carefully developed breeds are overpowering Eastern filbert blight, which had threatened to crush the U.S. hazelnut industry. |
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Growing Resistance, Oregon Hazelnuts Battle Blight Carefully developed breeds are overpowering Eastern filbert blight, which had threatened to crush the U.S. hazelnut industry. |
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Growing Resistance, Oregon Hazelnuts Battle Blight Carefully developed breeds are overpowering Eastern filbert blight, which had threatened to crush the U.S. hazelnut industry. |
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Growing Resistance, Oregon Hazelnuts Battle Blight Carefully developed breeds are overpowering Eastern filbert blight, which had threatened to crush the U.S. hazelnut industry. |
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Growing Resistance, Oregon Hazelnuts Battle Blight Carefully developed breeds are overpowering Eastern filbert blight, which had threatened to crush the U.S. hazelnut industry. |
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Growing Resistance, Oregon Hazelnuts Battle Blight Carefully developed breeds are overpowering Eastern filbert blight, which had threatened to crush the U.S. hazelnut industry. |
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Growing Resistance, Oregon Hazelnuts Battle Blight Carefully developed breeds are overpowering Eastern filbert blight, which had threatened to crush the U.S. hazelnut industry. |
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Growing Resistance, Oregon Hazelnuts Battle Blight Carefully developed breeds are overpowering Eastern filbert blight, which had threatened to crush the U.S. hazelnut industry. |
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Making Marriage Work When Only One Spouse Believes In God Every couple has differences and disagreements to navigate. But what happens when the couple disagrees on the fundamental question of faith? Maria Peyer is a church-attending Lutheran; her husband, Mike Bixby, is an atheist. But they've found ways to accept and support each other's beliefs. |
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At Hanukkah, Pastry Reminds Portland Jews Of Their Mediterranean Roots The cheese-and-spinach-filled food called a boyo was once served on the Shabbat tables of Jews who lived in the Ottoman Empire. Today, the Turkish-style pastries are mostly reserved for the holidays. |
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Real Chefs Grind It With A Mortar And Pestle With mixers, blenders and food processors found in most kitchens, the primitive mortar and pestle may seem out of place. But the Stone Age tool can't be beat when it comes to creating tasty salsas, pestos and curries, chefs say. |
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Frozen Meals Soothe The Sick And Shut-In A fresh hot meal is a thing of beauty when you're having a tough go of things, and can literally bring tears to people's eyes. But a full freezer? That's money in the bank. So when it comes to feeding people in need, an extra meal for the freezer can be the best gift of all. |
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Portland Company Aims To Tame Food Truck Trash Reusuable take-out box service is the latest effort to "green" Portland's growing food truck scene. GO Box founder Laura Weiss estimates the year-old service has already prevented 10,000 disposable boxes from entering the waste stream. |
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Creating A Schwenker World, One Backyard Grill At A Time It sounds a little dirty, but a schwenker is just a German word for a swinging grill that looks like a tripod, set over charcoal. Schwenker evangelists are spreading the word about this unique grill around the world. |
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Part Science, Part Art, Pollinator Pathway Connects Seattle Green Spaces Plant pollinators are in trouble. But it isn't just the bees, its birds, butterflies and bats, too. A Seattle artist designs landscapes to connect the many different pollinators to the plants we eat. |
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It's Taxis Vs. Limos In Laid-Back Portland Like several other U.S. cities, Portland, Ore., requires limousines and town cars to charge higher fares than taxicabs. Two town car companies have filed suit against the city, arguing that the two sets of regulations are unconstitutional. |
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Forget Big-Box Stores. How About A Big-Box House? Using recycled materials is increasingly common in building construction. But some architects are taking the green movement a step further, creating entire homes and businesses from discarded shipping containers. They call it cargotecture. |
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Thank The Patron Saint Of Bakers For This Cake Today Pictures of Saint Honore or (Saint Honoratus) from church iconography reinforce his baker background. He's holding his wooden peel, often with a few delicious-looking loaves of crusty French bread nearby. |
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At Basque Cooking Clubs, Food And Fraternity Mix Heartily Txokos are bustling, food-centered social clubs, somewhere between dinner party and fraternal lodge. And Basques often point to txokos to explain their renowned cuisine and wealth of Michelin-starred restaurants like Arzak and Mugaritz. |
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Some Jews Say Bugs Have No Place At The Seder Table Some Orthodox rabbis say that if you're keeping to the spiritual interpretation of what is kosher, you've got to get the bugs out of your vegetables. |
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Cooking School Spreads Immigrants' Skills And Ethnic Recipes Culture Kitchen, a San Francisco company, hires first-generation immigrants as cooking instructors. It tries to find talented cooks who wouldn't normally be teaching because of a language barrier or lack of formal training. |
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Swedish Fat Tuesday Delicacy Kept Alive In Portland Back when refrigeration wasn't up to modern standards, Fat Tuesday was a time to clear the house of rich, indulgent foods. A Swedish church in Portland, Ore., keeps the Swedish version of the baking tradition alive, if not the religious observance. |
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Minnesota Festival On Ice Melts Art's Boundaries Call it the Burning Man of the Midwest: a temporary city, built around artistic expression. On a frozen lake outside of Minneapolis, the ice shanties are filled with art and dance parties. |
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With Hanukkah Microbrews, A Taste of Jewish History Are Jews really the people of the hops? A historian says beer isn't particularly Jewish. But it is a part of Jewish life, and now several microbreweries are reviving the tradition of Jewish beer with seasonal brews to celebrate Hanukkah. |
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Brewer's Popular Chanukah Beer: 8 Malty Nights During the holidays, beer manufacturers roll out seasonal brews. And now, in addition to Ebenezer Ale and Santa's Private Reserve, there's a relative newcomer for Chanukah: a chocolate rye porter from a micro-brewer in Portland, Oregon. |
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Female Prison Inmates Trained To Start Businesses For four years, inmates at a women's correctional facility in Oregon have taken a class that provides training in small business management as well as life skills such as setting goals. |
