From cart to store front, Salt and Straw Ice Cream has become one of Portland’s leading ice cream shops. With lines out the door all year around, Kim Malek and her team has created an offering that has reached a national audience. “We make really great ice cream that reflects the local community in a […]
Read More Interview with Kim Malek | December 26, 2015Greg Denton has cooked for the most famous people in the world – now he cooks for himself. Denton has worked in the kitchen for the finest kitchens in America including Bouchon, French Laundry, and the CIA in Langley Virginia. Now he and his wife Gabrielle own Ox restaurant. “Ox is a study of Portland […]
Read More Interview with Greg Denton | December 19, 2015With no particular interest in food, Peter Platt never imagined owning a restaurant. Peru changed that. While working for Mercy Corp there, Platt sampled the culinary wonders of the capital city, Lima. When his Mercy Corp gig was up in 2001, he returned home to Portland and, with his friend Jaime Saavedra, started a Peruvian […]
Read More Interview with Peter Platt | December 12, 2015It took Vitaly Paley 20 years to meet food. Born in Russia (near Kiev) to a family that valued music, Paley was raised to be a classical pianist. It wasn’t until college that Paley started expressing interests in other occupations. While attending Juilliard Music School in New York City, Paley began to look for opportunities […]
Read More Interview with Vitaly Paley | December 4, 2015