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A Love of Good Farmhouse Food
Rudy Marchesi has crafted his life around a world devoted to food. Both professionally, as owner of a vineyard and winery on 230 acres near Portland, Oregon, and in his personal life, with a nearby residence that he has carved out as a...
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Cherry Orchards and Ice Creme:: Preview
Next week we visit a large cherry farm to see trees in full blossom, and find out more about the importance of bees as pollinators; learn how to make a very unusual ice cream flavor: bone-marrow, smoked cherry ice cream with bourbon; and...
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Cherry Orchards in Full Bloom
Mike Omeg's family has farmed in The Dalles, Oregon area for five generations. As Omeg explains in the video, at one time the farm was a diversified operation with cattle, wheat, and the big cash crop in the early 1900's: watermelons. In...
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Artisan Butcher and Charcuterie: Preview
Tuesday The Craft of Artisan Sausage Making Chef Eric Finley, co-owner of Chop Butchery & Charcuterie demonstrates how to make 3 different types of homemade sausages: Italian Chicken; Merguez Lamb; and Chorizo. Wednesday A Traditional,...
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A Look Inside A Modern Combine Harvester
Farmers across the country (and increasingly the world) rely upon technology as an integral part of their day to day farming operations. In The Dalles, Oregon, fifth generation farmer David Brewer shows us the insides of his John Deere...
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Buyer's Club: Preview
Tuesday Chilled Squash Soup and Lamb-Stuffed Squash Fall season brings a multitude of summer squash to the garden and the market. Chef Donald Kotler, of restaurant TOAST, shares two tasty dishes that use both zucchini and yellow squash....
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A Few Key Things to Know About Pickles & Cucumbers
In this short video, Paul Fuller of Sweet Creek Foods lays out some of the key requirements to producing quality homemade pickles. For those interested in learning more about making pickles, stay tuned for our Kitchen segment (making...
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Canning Food: Pickles
Paul Fuller and his wife Judy have been building their food processing business Sweet Creek Foods—they refer to it as a "glassery" rather than a cannery—for 12 years. They started with pickles, then moved on to jams, tomatoes, salsa and...
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Healthy Foods to Feed Your Dog
According to Rick Woodford, author of Feed Your Best Friend Better, cooking the right homemade food for your dog helps provide a greater variety of amino acids, vitamins, and especially phytochemicals and antioxidants that "help...
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Street-Style Enchiladas with Homemade Adobo Sauce
Chef and restaurateur Kelly Myers of Xico in Portland, Oregon shows us how to make a quick form of enchiladas she refers to as street style, they are cooked on a grill or stovetop without any baking. Myers also whips up a tasty adobo...
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Salmon En Papillote with Wild Mushrooms
Chef Kathryn Yeomans of The Farmer's Feast demonstrates how to make a succulent wild and cultivated mushroom dish with fresh salmon to deeply satisfy all earthly pleasures, including that of the olfactory senses.
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Savory Bread Pudding with Chard and Carrots
Culinary instructor, and food activist Katherine Deumling demonstrates how to make a savory bread pudding dish from leftover artisan bread, a great way to make use of some leftover ingredients.
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What Makes Good Cheese and the Many Different Varieties of Cheese?
There's a seasonality to the taste of cheese that follows in part from what the animals (cows, goats, etc.) are eating in the pasture, and is reflected in the taste of their milk. Rudy Marchesi, and Claudia Lucero talk about the general...
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Supa Fresh Youth Farm: Helping Underserved Teens Learn Life Skills
Mia Bartlett, a career specialist with YouthSource, a program of the Oregon Human Development Corp., was walking her dog one day near Tigard. It wandered off, and she found it in what looked like an overgrown garden full of blackberries...
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Salmon Gravlax with Creme Fraiche
Portland Chef Annie Cuggino of Veritable Quandary, demonstrates how to turn simple ingredients, into well—what you see in this video!
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Wheat Harvest
The day we visited David Brewer of Emerson Dell Farm in late July, he was nearing the end of his wheat harvest on about 1200 acres of dry-land crop. Brewer's soft white winter wheat has low gluten strength, and most of it is shipped to...
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Sweet & Savory Pies: A Love Story
When Philly native Sarah Curtis-Fawley travelled to Australia for what she just intended to be a year, fate seems to have intervened. Marrying, and eventually opening up a bakery (the Pacific Pie Company) in Portland, Oregon specializing...
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The Beginner's Guide to Making Home Brew
In this episode, veteran beer-making instructor Jeremy Frey, from F. H. Steinbart Company, one of the oldest home beer supply houses in the country, shows us how to make a batch of home-made beer.
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The Beer Engine and True Imperial Pint Measure
Publican Ted Sobel of the Brewers Union Local 180, shows his cask-conditioned beer engine, and how the beer is hand-pulled into a full imperial pint or half pint jar that he serves to his customers.
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The Dog Food Dude Abides
When Jackson, Rick Woodford's "best buddy", an 8 year-old Belgian Malinois-Labrador mix, was diagnosed with cancer, and given only 9 months to live, Woodford was determined to help his friend enjoy the remaining days of his life.
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The Evangelist of Hash and His Dining Escapades
Clark Haass is bent on world domination, but not in the evil-overlord, bwa-ha-ha sense. He wants to bring the world to the table over a heaping plate of hash.
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Symphony of the Soil: Interview with Deborah Koons Garcia
Deborah Koons Garcia's exceptional, new film, Symphony of the Soil, pays loving homage to the beauty and the wondrous mystery of soil, celebrating not just the incredible soil diversity found on four of the world's continents, it also...
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Symphony of the Soil: The Creative Filmmaking Process
Part 2: Independent Filmmaker, Deborah Koons Garcia talks about her latest film Symphony of the Soil, and some of the ways that she brings together animation, watercolor images, and original music, to provide a better understanding about...
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Vegetable Literacy: Deborah Madison Describes Some Plant Families
In the interview above, Deborah Madison talks about some of the botanical families, and their edible members that are organized by chapter in her book.