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  • oregon hazelnut recall, ouch

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    This couldn’t be timed more poorly, with holiday baking and all, but it looks like salmonella was found at one of the shelling plants for Oregon’s hazelnut crop, in Newburg, OR. For more information, see the Oregon Department of Agriculture recall notice here. As far as food-borne illnesses go, salmonella is [...]
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    Posted: December 20, 2009, 12:38pm EST
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  • pnw cookbook reviews 2009

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 2
    I had the great pleasure of reviewing new Pacific Northwest cookbooks for the Eugene Weekly’s annual Procrastinators’ Gift Guide, out on the stands today.  Check out the latest in home cookin’ ’round these here parts: The Paley’s Place Cookbook by Vitaly and Kimberly Paley; Artisan Cheese of the Pacific Northwest by Tami [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2009, 2:49pm EST
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  • arirang kimchi

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 1
    Grading’s done, yay!  So now it’s time for the honored yearly holiday tradition, celebrated by academics worldwide…the Writing of the Research Papers.  I’ve got three big projects to wrestle down into various marketable forms by the beginning of January, plus some other stuff farther along in the process.  I now [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2009, 1:41pm EST
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  • dark days challenge #4: latkes and grading

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 1
    For my fourth Dark Days Wintery Eatin’ Local Challenge, I faced the last week of classes and grading woes.  Teaching humanities classes is difficult, because you really want your students to take the time and effort to craft an argument with great textual support, but there’s only one way to [...]
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    Posted: December 14, 2009, 3:41pm EST
    by Eugenia

  • frozen leaves-stuffed meatloaf-breaking pipes-end of quarter blues

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Water pipes are freezing and breaking all over Eugene.  We’ve been ok, but I’m sure my winter vegetables and spring hopefuls (e.g., cabbage, snow peas, fava beans, maybe strawberries??, artichokes, onions, garlic, and shallots, and herbs) have frozen solid. I’m not sure if they’re going to make it, not to [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 11:55pm EST
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  • holiday gifts 2009, the purchasing version

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 6
    I’ve done the whole homemade gifts in a jar thing — now it’s time for some brutal, aggressive commercialism!  With Hanukkah beginning this weekend, and Christmas not far behind, you’d better get crackin’.  Here are some ideas for unusual, inexpensive gifts for the food lover in your life. Sideswipe blade for [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:05pm EST
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  • dark days challenge #3: wild mushroom shepherd’s pie

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 1
    This weekend was the perfect storm for wintery cuisine:  (1) the last day of school was Friday, (2) I’m working on some cookbook reviews for the Eugene Weekly, and (3) it has been freezing — the cold front will hover for most of the week.  So I spent considerable time [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:09pm EST
    by Eugenia

  • lane county postal food drive

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 1
    Amid our celebration over the Oregon football team’s victory and journey to the Rose Bowl, yesterday’s news reported more sobering realities: our local food pantries have much smaller reserves this year than they did last year.  With the economy still slumping, and the weather so cold, it’s going to be [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 7:15pm EST
    by Eugenia

  • hazelnut millet granola, with variations

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    In my pre-Thanksgiving pantry investigation, I discovered I had two big containers of oats.  In an ongoing effort to break my morning bagel habit, it seemed I had no choice but to make granola.  We did a double batch of Nigella Lawson’s ridiculously simple nut granola recipe that several bloggers [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:35pm EST
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  • northwest food and wine festival recap

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    This post is a tad late in the telling, but I’m catching up with all my back stuff this week, and wanted to have these notes on the record.  Retrogrouch and I were happy to have the opportunity to spend the weekend in continuing education at the Northwest Food and [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:35pm EST
    by Eugenia

  • dark days challenge #2: post-Thanksgiving corn chowder

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 1
    For the second week of the Dark Days Winter Eat Local Challenge, I was indeed challenged.  The days leading up to Thanksgiving, and after Thanksgiving, I was really focused on the big meal we ate on the day.  With all the leftovers, it was hard to justify going to the [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:07pm EST
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  • thanksgiving 2009

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 3
    We had 21 people over for what could be called an “orchestrated potluck” this year on a rainy, cold evening.  My dear friends brought appetizers, side dishes, and desserts to supplement what I had made, and thus we had a wide range of choices for all the guests. We had several [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:52pm EST
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  • ode on a fresh turkey

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 8
    I always brine.  I know just by admitting this, I’m an anachronism in the food world, so yesterday.  Even Cook’s Illustrated doesn’t brine anymore.  But I like the slightly slick juiciness that brining gives to white meat, and it’s never hurt my dark meat. Plus, it’s one slightly gross, slightly perverse [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:42pm EST
    by Eugenia

  • cranberry sauce alternatives

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 1
    And since I’m on a blogging roll, I wanted to brag about my Punchy Cranberry Sauce again this year.  Need a cranberry sauce recipe to wow your friends?  You’ve come to the right place.  Ginger Street and Northwest Orangezest, turn left at the bog.  I’m amending the recipe this time [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 3:06pm EST
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  • holiday help line

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    And just a reminder, since the Register-Guard Thanksgiving food section failed to note that we’ve got a terrific local resource and don’t need to rely on the Butterball corporate hotline… and the local radio DJs reported on people calling 411 for turkey help… HOLD THE PHONE! The OSU Extension-Lane County Master Food Preservers [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:45pm EST
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  • gifts in a jar 2009

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Now that I’ve overseen my second annual “Holiday Gifts in a Jar” class for the Master Food Preservers, I’m in jar gift mode, and I thought I’d share the bounty of my research with you.  Once a week, from now until New Year’s Day, I’ll be posting a recipe or [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:05pm EST
    by Eugenia

  • dark days challenge: squashed

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 1
    I joined up with the bloggers doing the Dark Days Winter Eat Local Challenge, a once-weekly meal made from SOLE ingredients (sustainable, organic, local and ethical).  Since so much of what we eat here at Raccoon Tree Acres is from the local farms, I thought it wouldn’t be a problem [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 4:44pm EST
    by Eugenia

  • new column in ew: squash whip queen of hungary!

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 1
    I’m failing as a blogger this week: just too busy.  But I have good reason.  Today, I’m teaching 50 students (including some of my own from the Clark Honors College at U of Oregon, yay!) how to make “gifts in a jar” for the Master Food Preservers.  Two full classes, [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:03pm EST
    by Eugenia

  • gettin’ lucky in pdx: sichuan!

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    After a trying week, we drove in the rain up to Portland for the weekend.  I’m here to learn everything I can about Portland restaurants and food trends at the Northwest Food & Wine Festival, and I’ll be posting about that tomorrow.  But for now, let me just say that [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 12:59pm EST
    by Eugenia

  • dining niblets: what’s for dinner edition

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 2
    Last Saturday to buy your produce and local meat/fish/cheese at the outdoor Farmers Market.  The venue moves indoor at the Fairgrounds, but many of the local farms will be shutting down market operations for the season.  So don’t miss it! If you do have to miss it, however, remember that there [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:23am EST
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  • gearing up for the dark days blogging challenge

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 5
    My entire house smells like the floral, slightly apply, slightly pineapply fruit most of us wouldn’t even recognize: the quince.  It’s a part of the supplies I’m gathering as part of the 3rd annual Dark Days blogging challenge, run by Laura of (not so) Urban Hennery up in the great [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 5:02pm EST
    by Eugenia

  • café arirang – best korean in eugene

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 3
    Café Arirang on Franklin, the best kept dining secret in Eugene, now has a list of fall specials, including these spicy soups and noodle dishes to warm your insides: Zzambong, a “very spicy” noodle soup with seafood (9.95); Zzajang Mjun, vegetables, pork, potatoes in a black bean sauce over noodles (8.95); [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:18pm EST
    by Eugenia

  • new farmers market on campus

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 3
    Thursday marks the second of four weeks that local farms will be hawking their fall produce on the University of Oregon campus.  More information by clicking here. Check it out and make it worth their while! They’ll only be around until Thanksgiving. I am amazed and proud that U of O [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:02am EST
    by Eugenia

  • burgerville sweet potato fries

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    On our way home from Seattle, we realized we had failed to time our meals properly.  We weren’t hungry in Portland, so we missed the excellent dining opportunities there.  An hour later, though, we were feeling peckish, and deciding we couldn’t face Eugene restaurants, we decided to stop in Albany [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:31am EST
    by Eugenia

  • third annual tasting buffet – nov 8

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    You are warmly invited to join us at the OSU Extension-Lane County Master Food Preservers Tasting Buffet and Auction Fundraiser next Sunday, November 8, from 4-7!  This year, we’ll be at the Elks Lodge on W. 11th, a much larger space than the one we rented at Midtown last year.  [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:39am EST
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  • dirty pumpkin seeds

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 2
    Happy Halloween!  Retrogrouch and I carved our jack-o-lantern last night, and got our scaaaaary on.  I am bedecking our porch with body parts, and he’s been nailed through the head.  Luckily, the injury wasn’t bad enough to stop him from the carving. For me, the best part of pumpkin carving has [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 12:28pm EDT
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  • second-best blog!

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 8
    Thank you to everyone who voted for me for the Eugene Weekly’s Best Blog award.  I came in second!  The EW! Blog came in first and a ‘zine with which I was unfamiliar, Urinal Gum, came in third.  I like the idea of being between EW! and a urinal.  That [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 11:34am EDT
    by Eugenia

  • something old, something new

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 2
    This is short notice, but anyone interested in historic Oregon cuisine should check out the Oregon State University’s historical recipes showcase event tomorrow, Wednesday, October 28.  The tasting will feature desserts and other recipes from the archival collection of cook books…treats like trifles, fools and syllabubs.  The event will take [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 4:18pm EDT
    by Eugenia

  • humble beagle, top dog

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 2
    We’ve dined at Humble Beagle (next to Humble Bagel in Sundance Market’s plaza) a few times, and we’ve been pleased each time.  Although I still pledge my first love to Belly, Humble Beagle is another fine example of what Eugene can and should do in restaurants.  Humble Beagle is a [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:10am EDT
    by Eugenia

  • having my way with winter squash

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 2
    As we tumble into fall, all eyes turn to those fleshy orange squashes that we associate with holiday cooking.  Although I must say that I recently devoured a maple cream puree made with the grey squash above, I prefer winter squash dishes that don’t add extra sugar.  The marshmallow yam [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 12:36pm EDT
    by Eugenia

  • super deluxe choucroute extravaganza

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 2
    We shared a wonderful, rustic fall meal at Marché last night: Alsatian choucroute garnie.  It’s not really a meal for the light of heart.  Basically, it’s a giant mound of wine-braised sauerkraut topped with smoked and cured chunks of unctuous pork, several kinds of sausages and potatoes, served with mustard. I [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 12:52pm EDT
    by Eugenia

  • end of the harvest, end of the line

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 2
    I think I’m officially out of steam.  I put up two kinds of sauerkraut and more sour dill pickles last week, made chicken stock and ajvar (red pepper and eggplant spread) and went a little crazy with the dehydrator: dried bags of (commercial) green beans and corn/peas/carrots mix for soup, [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 2:32am EDT
    by Eugenia

  • deli diaspora and the preservation renaissance

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 5
    New York-style Jewish delis ain’t what they used to be.  In yesterday’s New York Times, Joan Nathan reports on one family-run deli in Newark, NJ.  Hobby’s Deli still serves up traditional fare, but serves it to a changing demographic, due to new racial mixes in old Jewish neighborhoods and health [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 6:43pm EDT
    by Eugenia

  • apple cider donuts

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 4
    Post Secret:  I still pine for Michigan in the fall. No, these cider donuts are not even vaguely comparable to the freshly fried cider donuts at the Franklin Cider Mill in Franklin, Michigan, one of the most glorious places of my childhood (and dare I say all NW suburban Detroit childhoods [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2009, 8:14pm EDT
    by Eugenia

  • two plum jams: elephant heart and fellenberg

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 3
    Plum is one of those words I like to say over and over.  If we can (if!) disregard the sticky, musky juiciness for a moment, the word itself is full of goodness.  That initial ‘pl’ always brings good things to the party: play, plink, plenty, pleather, plots, plaster, plans, plugs, [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 5:03pm EDT
    by Eugenia

  • fall visitors in the willamette valley

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 1
    I’m always thankful I get to live in one of the unsung wonders of the world, the Willamette Valley.  As fall begins, however, and the warm weather crops start to produce their best offerings — huge heirloom tomatoes, thick-walled ripe peppers, shelling beans, bags of sweet carrots, little pie pumpkins [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 3:46pm EDT
    by Eugenia

  • new fall class series at hartwick’s

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 5
    The OSU Extension – Lane County Master Food Preservers are offering another monthly demonstration class series on preservation techniques!  This one will be held at Hartwick’s kitchen store in the 5th St. Market (296 5th Ave., Eugene).  To register: 541-686-0126. Hartwick’s has a beautiful demonstration kitchen, and classes are limited to [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 12:32pm EDT
    by Eugenia

  • and now, let’s hear from the judges: plum tomatoes

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 1
    Call ‘em plum, paste, or roma tomatoes.  Don’t like ‘em.  Seriously.  Has there ever been a less flavorful tomato? I grew Saucey (yes, with an annoying ‘e’) last year, and I liked them better than the others, except for two things: one, they still tasted bad raw; and two, they developed [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2009, 4:29pm EDT
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  • playing ketchup

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 10
    I’ve been busy with the tomato harvest, trying to bottle up the meaty juices of summer before we go back to school next week.  I decided to attempt ketchup this year as one of my projects, using what surely absolutely promised to be a quick and easy recipe for blender [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 11:50am EDT
    by Eugenia

  • attack of the killer canned tomatoes

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 3
    If you’re busy canning tomatoes (and who in the food preservation world is not?), please be sure to use updated methods.  Canning in old pickle jars, canning in a microwave, canning without added lemon juice to acidify the pH for tomatoes, hoping that if the jar seals from the heat [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
    by Eugenia

  • food for thought: capricious caprese

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 8
    I don’t really remember much of August.  It’s all a blur of words and revisions and paper and a computer screen and the sound of typing. I do remember eating more than my fair share of the simple, elegant caprese salad, a salad that one simply can’t have at any other [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 1:47pm EDT
    by Eugenia

  • raindrops keep falling on my beds

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    You know what this means, don’t you?  The rainy season has begun.  We had our first storm the other day, and this week promises to be a gorgeous Indian summer, but the mornings are crisp and that smoky, wild feeling rides the night air.  I picked a very decent crop [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 4:54am EDT
    by Eugenia

  • to the children of the corn…

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Happy Labor Day!  May your work be as sweet as a niblet, as revelatory as a full, fat cob beneath the husk, as unerring as a row, and as fascinating as one yellow kernel.   And, well, you know, not genetically modified or taking over the fruits of small farms or [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 12:58pm EDT
    by Eugenia

  • what will they think of next: a new zucchini recipe

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 2
    Buried?  One of the best ways I found to use up zucchini is by grilling it, then turning it into a salad.  This one, dressed very simply with salt, olive oil, pinenuts, and mint, is good both warm or at room temperature.  The mint brings out the sweetness of the [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 2:42pm EDT
    by Eugenia

  • blue cheese molten grilled tomatoes

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Before Too many tomatoes?  Try my molten grilled tomatoes, a good way to use up the firm, round slicers with strong walls, like the Early Girls with which we are inundated.  This is one of my summertime staples, and as I mention in the recipe linked below, it’s not fancy food [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2009, 10:14am EDT
    by Eugenia

  • the one that got away

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 1
    I admire the sneaky ones who hide under the leaves, trying to develop to maturity.  But Anthony Boutard of Ayers Creek Farm posted a link to a German recipe on his newsletter that seals their fate, too.  Old, overripe, yellow cucumber pickles! And their name: senfgurken.  Irresistible. Sorry, guys. Anthony says he [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 11:36pm EDT
    by Eugenia

  • pdx sichuan: you know you want it

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 1
    This, my friends, goes on my list of stuff I need to do when I finish my dissertation.  Right now, this list is the only thing that’s keeping me going.  Well, besides the video for “Starman” by David Bowie, which, honestly, I could watch a thousand times.  And sometimes I [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 12:09am EDT
    by Eugenia

  • fair enough

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Have you been to the Lane County Fair yet?  I gave my talk on blackberries there the other day, but it was so hot I couldn’t spend more than an hour walking around and looking at the exhibits and rides.  Still, I managed to snap a few shots of the [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 10:09am EDT
    by Eugenia

  • what is black and white and purple all over?

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 1
    Check out my article on Oregon blackberries, which appears today in the Eugene Register-Guard.  I discuss types of blackberries and blackberry-raspberry crosses, and what we’ve been doing in Oregon to breed better berries. Then I focus on the crisis at hand: what can you do with too many fresh blackberries?  I [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 11:44am EDT
    by Eugenia

  • murder most foul

    —Culinaria Eugenius

    Number of comments: 3
    And delicious. Posted in green, joys, local products, travel Tagged: american gothic, tomatoes, vegetables [...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2009, 8:26am EDT
    by Eugenia

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